Biya, Macron: if you make yourself a monkey, bananas would eat you

In the ideal world, the French president was wrong and childish to have told the world he “instructs” the Cameroon president, and the young agitators who stormed the French Embassy in Yaounde to protest French arrogance were right. But they were wrong, naïve, manipulated and stupid and Emmanuel Macron was not inventing anything new; it was just business as usual. Francophone African leaders have themselves to blame, Biya on top of the list. He basks in the “glory” of that shameful pride. In the early 1990s he boasted he was the “best pupil” of the late former president Francois Mitterrand.…