THE NATIVISM IN VOGUE AT THE MOMENT IN GABON IS THE RESULT OF INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS! LE NATIVISME EN VOGUE EN CE MOMENT AU GABON EST LE FRUIT DE LA PARESSE INTELLECTUELLE !
English version André Raponda-Walker, one of the most erudite Gabonese in history, if he had lived today, would be told by perfect fools: "move aside, you mixed-race people, you are not Gabonese by origin". Like him, Jean-Bernard Saulnerond-Mapangou would have been chased away; ditto for Maurice Leflem etc. In these moments of transition, intellectual laziness makes many Gabonese say a lot of nonsense. Apparently only the so-called native Gabonese should have all the rights in Gabon. The others would be nothing but adulterated Gabonese, pale copies of the originals. Dear compatriots, it is shameful to have such uneducated positions. Some people in Gabon are organizing a campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished nativism and xenophobia. They are saying openly that people who have foreign blood are a threat to the nation’s security, wellbeing, and future. They think that all people who have foreign blood are exactly like Sylvia Bongo. Some pe
