The Pillage of Africa: How French Wealth Was Built on Exploitation

For over a century, France has systematically exploited Africa, plundering its resources, suppressing its people, and maintaining a neo-colonial grip to secure its economic prosperity. Without Africa’s vast wealth—gold, uranium, oil, gas, and agricultural products—France would have struggled to maintain its position as a so-called developed nation. In reality, without its stolen goods and funds from Africa, France would have been reduced to a Third World country. Today, as African nations rise against this exploitation and expel French influence, President Emmanuel Macron is watching in desperation as the financial lifeline that has sustained France for decades begins to dry up.