“These heads of government are the true traitors of Africa, for they sell their country to the most terrifying of all enemies: stupidity.”- Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth

President of Cote d’Ivoire Felix Houphouet-Boigny, French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, Counselor for African Affairs Jacques Foccart, Minister of Cooperation Michel Aurillac- Yamoussoukro, 1986