PLO Lumumba EXPOSES Macron’s Hidden Plan for Africa (They Never Expected This!)

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]There is a France that is losing its power in the former colonies in the Sahelian Republic and even beyond the Sahelian Republic they have trouble with Seneagal which has said we don't want your army they have problem in Gabon where there was a coupa there was a near kuda in Benin they don't have the control that they would want to have in Togo in Central African Republic public.

[00:00:30]There is also the presence of the Russians and a contested election. So they are losing out. When there was a coup deta in Guinea, a coup in Nij, a coup deta in Bukinaaso and a coup dai in Mali, the leaders of the Sahelian Republic said they don't want French army. They said we don't want French currency. They say we don't want anything to do with French including mining companies. What is Macron trying to do is trying to raid the former colonies of the United Kingdom and and and Portugal. That is why you've seen Emanuel Macron in Lwanda in Angola.

[00:01:14]You've seen Emanuel Macarron in South Africa and you've seen Emanuel Macron very present in Kenya which is going to host the Frana meeting. What is Frank meeting? The first Frankf meeting was held in 1973.

[00:01:35]If you ask the French they'll say it is the then president of Nijani Diori who asked for the meeting. But the truth was that it was the then French prime minister Ges Pompidu who asked for the meeting and the meeting was held in Pere and the whole idea was that the French wanted to keep their former colonies under their economic check.

[00:02:01]You know, when I see Emanuel Macron today, my mind takes me back to history.

[00:02:09]And that history is 1944 in what was then known as French Equatorial Guinea in Brazil.

[00:02:18]In 1944, just before the end of the Second World War, Shaldig, who was then in the opposition to the Germans who had occupied France, summoned the colonies in Brazville, which is modernday Congo Republic.

[00:02:42]During that meeting, the result was the Brazville declaration in which France said that for their survival they needed the colonies.

[00:02:55]And if you proceed a little more after the war in the establishment of the fifth republic in 1958, it is the same Sheldigal who tells the colonies you either vote no or yes. Yes. To mean that you get some autonomy but remain within France.

[00:03:14]We control your foreign affairs. We control your economy. It is only Guinea under secret that votes no and they destroyed Guinea. We then see them destroying Algeria.

[00:03:29]And when the countries become independent, a number of things happen in the former French colonies. Number one, they retain military presence in all their former colonies in the continent of Africa. They control their currency, CFA Frank, whether it is in central Africa or in Western Africa.

[00:03:52]They control everything from Perry. And of course, France as we see it today is reminiscent of France in the 1940s and 1950s.

[00:04:06]in terms of what is considered to be a loss. When there was a coup deta in Guinea, a coup deta in Nij, a coup deta in Bukinaaso and a coup detai in Mali, the leaders of the Sahelian republic said they don't want French army. They said we don't want French currency. They say we don't want anything to do with French including mining companies. And Emmanuel Macron whenever I see him is trying to cast himself in the mold of Shaldigo.

[00:04:44]This great leader who is an avatar of Shaldigo who wants to make France great again if I'm to use that terminology. So when you see the activities of Emanuel Macron as we stand today, understand it at two levels. Level number one, there is a France that is losing its power in the former colonies in the Sahelian Republic. And even beyond the Sahelian Republic, they have trouble with Seneagal which has said we don't want your army. They have problem in Gabon where there was a kuda. There was a near kudai in Benin. They don't have the control that they would want to have in Togo. In Central African Republic, there is also the presence of the Russians and a contested election. So they are losing out. And what is Macron trying to do is trying to raid the former colonies of the United Kingdom and and and Portugal.

[00:05:47]That is why you've seen Emanuel Macron in Lwanda in Angola. You've seen Emanuel Macarron in South Africa and you've seen Emanuel Macron very present in Kenya which is going to host the Frankf meeting. What is Frank meeting? The first Frankf meeting was held in 1973.

[00:06:12]If you ask the French, they'll say it is the then president of Nij Hammani Diori who asked for the meeting. But the truth was that it was the then French prime minister Spompidu who asked for the meeting and the meeting was held in Perry and the whole idea was that the French wanted to keep their former colonies under their economic check. If you look at the statistics as I speak in the year 2026, there are over 4,200 French subsidiary companies present in the continent of Africa. In Kenya only there are over 140 French subsidiaries in the total the total employment would be in excess of 600 million and they in all sectors they are in oil total energies they in the mining sector they in manufacturing there is in the area of artificial intelligence they are in environment and all these require a different type of diplomacy and that is why The French have said in advance of the Nairobi meeting on the 11th and 12th of May, give us a second chance.

[00:07:28]The first time when we came, we wanted to control you. We wanted to engage with you militarily. This time our diplomacy is a little softer. We want to engage with you in technology in the arena of artificial intelligence. But the question is, is it soft? If you look at what has happened in Kenya, they have entered into a military pact with the Kenyan administration. The net effect is that we have an Emanuel Macron administration that we can actually begin to talk of macronism as a system of diplomacy that has a carrot and stick. It is iron fist with velvet gloves. And that is what we are seeing.

[00:08:18]And you can see that the figures vary.

[00:08:22]The number of African heads of states and government that may appear in Nairobi on 11th through to the 12th are 30 and counting, which is perhaps bigger than the number of African heads of state that attend the ordinary session of the African Union. That tells you that that diplomacy is working at different levels. Number one, the French are engaging countries bilaterally. So they go to Kenya, deal with Kenya. They go to Angola, deal with Angola. They go to South Africa, deal with South Africa.

[00:08:56]They go to Ghana, deal with South, deal with Ghana. They go to Botswana, deal with Botswana. And in the last one month, you will have seen the president of Ghana has been present. He's a lot more sophisticated. May not be confused by these shenanigans. The president of Botswana has also been par. So the macron diplomacy is a diplomacy which is designed to protect France and it reminds me of a statement made or attributed to one of the former French president Jac.

[00:09:33]Jac Shiak at one time said without her colonies France would become a third world country. So there is an element of desperation that is driving this uh diplomacy by Macron. The other thing that is driving this diplomacy is superiority within the European system. The Germans silently because their economy is larger has been the unspoken leader with Brexit. I think the French want to cast themselves as the big kahuna. We are the ones. There is the European Union, but when the chips are down, it is us. When the chips are down, it is macro. And it reminds me of a statement that was made when during the administration or is it the monarchy of King Henry the 14th when he was asked what is the state? He say I am the state. And I see Macron almost saying what is the state?

[00:10:39]That is how one characterizes at least from where I sit the diplomacy that I see being weighed into the continent of Africa and culminating into the Nairobi conference. The first time the Franic meeting is held in a non Frenchspeaking country. It is interesting geostrategically Kenya is an important country in the continent of Africa for a number of reasons.

[00:11:11]Number one, Kenya is the third most important host of United Nations organizations outside of New York, outside of Geneva. We have UNEP, we have many organization. UNICEF is moving into Nairobi and Habitat is here. So Kenya geostrategically is the place you want to be because when you are in Kenya you are in the heart of East Africa and I'm talking about the larger East Africa to include Ethiopia to include the Horn to include Somalia and even to include countries such as Sudan. So geostrategically you need to have Kenya. Number two, Kenya is the bigger, more dynamic economy. Not that it's a big economy, but relative to the economies in the region, Kenya is your bigger economy.

[00:12:06]Number three, Kenya has the best quality of labor in this region. That I think is not debatable. And for that reason, you find that Kenya is very strategic. And even if you look at things that are going to deal with critical issues such as artificial intelligence and you look at the quality of labor in Kenya and the potential for generation of energy which is going to be critical in this area.

[00:12:36]Kenya has a good mix of energy if and when we develop this. We'll have geothermal. We'll have hydro. We'll have sizable wind. And with the discovery of oil now, Kenya is also better place because if you look at the port of Mombasa and the deep port of Lamu and you look at how sophisticated they are, then you want to be here geostrategically. So I think that that makes Kenya very attractive and with the population that the UN brings in here even in terms of marketing of different commodities. Remember that the French are present in the retail sector they are present in critical areas that support a sophisticated international community. And I think that that is one of the reasons why Kenya is geostrategically a very important country for France as indeed for many other countries. Number two, it is compensatory. You have lost Nij, you have lost Bukina, you have lost Mali, you are losing Seneagal, you are about to lose Gabon, you about to lose Togo, you are about to lose Chad. You are now getting a country which is not landlocked. You are getting into your enemy's territory. And I'm using the word enemy very deliberately to say these are former British colonies.

[00:14:06]We are now going to eat into them. We are also going to eat into Angola. But for Kenya that I think is also a very important thing. And look at the military engagement. The French in my view think that they still need to have a military presence in the continent of Africa. You have lost Seneagal which has a sea. You only have Kodivo and then Kodiva is the bigger one. The small ones Togo, Benin, Gabon are small. The Sahalians were landlocked. So Kenya gives you the Indian Ocean. And if you have the Indian Ocean and you have the the French territory in May, the Mayot remember is still effectively a province of France and then you have a Komoro then you have a big brother in Kenya from where I sit Kenya becomes attractive for its geostrategic position. You know the European Union one can dare say there is a new scramble for Africa. It is as if Berlin 1884 and and 85 is alive. Not as loudly. Remember that there is once again contestation that the British had also raided what can be considered French territory in the latter day sense that Rwanda which was not a former British colony is a part of the Commonwealth. Mozambi which was not a part of the British colony is a part of the Commonwealth. So you can see that there is a new scramble for the continent of Africa and it is not in the blatant way that happened during colonization but is in a very subtle way. The Germans because of their history in the World War II don't want to come out as as openly as they they they could or should. But look at how active GIZ is or GIS. There is there are very few activities in the continent of Africa which you don't see GIS supporting.

[00:16:16]They are here. The British I'm sure after the French Africa meeting in the month of May on the 11th and 12th the Commonwealth will now be revitalized.

[00:16:27]They want to say you know we are one family. We must not allow outsiders to come in and they will not name who the outsider is but the outsider will be France and other German powers. And remember that many African countries are also engaging with the Chinese the road and belt project which is going to be in quite a number of African countries.

[00:16:53]Remember the Chinese have said we are giving African goods uh zero tariff.

[00:17:00]Remember that African countries are also working under the Africa agenda 2063 and Africa continental free trade area. the African market is going to be open. And each of these European powers think of Africa as they thought in the 18th and 19th century, a market, a market that will be coordinated with no tariff barriers and no tariff and non-tariff barriers. So those who are keenly watching must see that there is a new scramble.

[00:17:37]The only people who don't appear to understand that reality or they understand but don't care are African heads of states and government at least a critical number of them because their behavior does not tell me that they know that this is happening. Look at energy now. Who controls the energy sector in the oil sector in the continent of Africa?

[00:18:01]A good chunk of it is total energy.

[00:18:04]If you look at the discoveries that have been made in Uganda, who is financing or invested in the pipeline? Total energy.

[00:18:12]You go to Mozambi, the gas is total energy. And if they are not coming through total energy is ruby and if they are not coming through that avenue, they are coming through the retail sector in manufacturing. As I've already indicated, there are no less than 4,200 French subsidiary companies in the entire continent of Africa. You imagine if you are to remove them and they are in telecommunication.

[00:18:42]They are in the critical se sectors that will undergard and underpin and indeed do undergard and underpin the fourth industrial revolution and artificial intelligence. Remember that many African countries including a country that they are getting into their fold the Democratic Republic of Congo the rare earth cult which is the single most important ingredient in ingredient in mobile telephon you can see that the French are there and they are not the only ones who are there the other European powers are there the Chinese are there the tax are there because the tax you also see the tax want a revival of what one may describe as the Ottoman Empire. So it is mining onshore and offshore and providing you with their technology. And this latter day diplomacy is deliberately curated to hoodwink the African politician and hoodwinkedked there.

[00:19:48]If you look at the history in 1960s, in the early 1960s, I think it was uh President uh uh Prime Minister Nu of India at that time, Prime Minister Sukano of Indonesia andWamin Kuruma of Ghana who came up with something called nonaligned and positively neutral which meant that you are not politically aligned with any of the powers at that time which meant that you could open your country to trade with any one of these as long as your country benefited in the short, medium and long term. The question is are African countries benefiting in the short, long and medium term? Are African countries benefiting? Is there transfer of technology? For example, if we look at for example the areas where the French are like logistics bore can 60 years after independence can we engage? Do we have Kenyans and Africans who can engage in logistics?

[00:21:04]If you look at areas where other countries are such as air transportation, DHL and other DHL uh Fargo and those can't we do those? If you look at areas such as security where you find GD world which is Quebecqua in Canada, can't we do those? If you look at deliveries, home deliveries such as Jumia or Glo, can't we do those? In other words, what we are seeing with our undefined foreign policy is that we are engaging with many of these countries without a strategic long-term agenda.

[00:21:47]East African community long took the view and African Union long took the view that if we are to benefit in our diplomacy and relations with other powers, we do so as East African Community and it started in the early days after the collapse of East African Community One in 1977 and its revival. We even had a fast track of the East African community where in 2010 we ought to have had a East African president. We ought to have had a single currency. We ought to have removed all the tariffs and non-tariff barriers. We ought to have standardized our VAT of customs union and we ought to do things as a team. what you now see Kenya on its own, Uganda on its own, Tanzania on its own, Rwanda on its own, Burundi on its own and this disunityity creates an environment where African countries are engaged in negative competition and the effect is that we get the short hand of the stick because we have not in my view those in ministries of foreign affairs may disagree with what I'm saying but we make the claim that our foreign affairs is tradeled.

[00:23:07]If it is tradeled what are we trading?

[00:23:10]If you look at France which Kenyan companies are trading in France what is the balance of payments between Kenya and France beyond raw tea and coffee and avocado and other things from the western Africa. What is it that we are selling to France?

[00:23:33]Almost next to nothing. And we must not delude ourselves. We are like this bride who thinks that she's so beautiful and is being quoted by everybody. And the Chinese are here, the Russians are here, the Americans are here, the tax are here, the French are here, the British are here. But that bride does not know that she is getting old and past childbearing age. And when you are old and past childbearing age and all the cosmetics in the world can no longer change your looks, then you discover that you've been abandoned and they go to the next new bride. I'm using this analogy consciously aware that it may be considered gender insensitive but I look at the metaphor that I'm using and I'm suggesting that the longterm interest of Kenya of East Africa of Echoas of the Mreb Saddak of Egard demands that we collaborate. So I would love to see not a France Afric former of Portuguese speaking countries.

[00:24:50]No I would love to see number one starting East African community with the European Union. Kenya can negotiate our things within that context. Band Rwanda can do so and Bund in that context.

[00:25:05]Echoas meeting, Saddak meeting, MGRB meeting, but my ultimate desire is a meeting between the AU and the EU, the AU and India, the AU and Russian Federation, the AU and China, the AU and Brazil, the AU and Turkey, the AU and the United States of America. Of course in that context they call the Ivarians the Togoles and the Ghanaians will discuss Koko because we don't have it in Kenya or in Tanzania. The Democratic Republic of Congo will discuss Colton with it within that context. Uganda now that it has oil and Kenya now that it has oil, Nigeria that it has oil and Ghana will discuss oil and gas. Mozambi within that context then people will begin countries will begin to know oh they are so united you can no longer manipulate them the United States of America will not use a goa to intimidate us in order to dump secondhand clothing and to kill our textile industries because we'll be too clever. If you want to build the road and belt it will be a collaboration with African countries. If you want to do the lobito corridor from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Lwanda in Angola in Benuela, we'll be invested in it and we'll tell you there are certain areas where we don't want you. Please g don't supply us with don't employ our watchmen global please don't deliver our pizza.

[00:26:48]This is the kind of scenario that one would love because it will then be a collaboration which can be clearly referred to as a partnership. For the moment, our economies are so weak.

[00:27:03]The GDP of BI now that we are talking about France, the GDP of Pere is bigger than the entire East Africa. So when you say that Kenya is a partner of France, it is the partnership between a horse and the rider and that is not partnership. That is not a symbiotic relationship. That is a parasitic relationship and we want to migrate from parasitism to symbiosism.

[00:27:33]France will offer some crumbs which will make us happy. I can already imagine the speeches that are going to be read by Macron.

[00:27:44]Kenya and France have had a long relationship.

[00:27:49]Total energies are supplied your energy.

[00:27:52]Oh, Ruby has been here. Car 4, we may have divested a little but car 4 is here. We are helping you in the logistic with Ber. You are airlines. We also have a relationship with Nash. We have a good relationship. We occasionally they may claim even get cut flour from you and cut and and we have tea and coffee. Uh we have good relationship. This is therefore this relationship must be strengthened because we have created anything between 70,000 and 100,000 jobs for you Kenyans. But the question is does it empower Kenyans or it weakens us? By the time they are done with us, will we be stronger or weaker?

[00:28:43]And it is our duty as a people to define what we want. The French have defined what they want and it is in their interest that they define what they want. Have we defined what we want? They have defined what we want in the short to medium and long term.

[00:29:04]Have we defined all what we want or we are just happy that we are the first Englishspeaking country to host France Africa and that 30 heads of state will be present in Kenya and there'll be 30 national anthems being played feel good effect without being good. I suspect that that is what will happen to us. So that when we have military collaboration, the secondhand military equipment that France has used elsewhere will be repainted and sold in Kenya. I'm not saying they are doing that but that is a possibility. So we become a market not only in the retail that part of the retail but also in discarded technology e-waste these are possibilities.

[00:29:53]Remember what is happening in Nairobi, Kenya in the month of May 2026.

[00:30:03]I see a similitude of it that took place in Brazville in 1944.

[00:30:13]Shaldigal wherever he is must be saying deja vu. You know, whenever I think and I see the hand of many of the European powers over the years have become a cynic and a skeptic, it reminds me of what it used to be said in in the olden days that be careful of the Greeks even where they bear a gift.

[00:30:38]And the philosophy of divide, conquer and rule is still alive in the diplomacy of many western countries.

[00:30:51]Kenya is always depicted and in their unguarded moment they humor Kenya say you are different. You are middle level economy. Your personnel is better. Your climate is good. You are different. If you are more sophisticated than than your Tanzanian economy, you see Uganda could be doing well, but they are landlocked. So, you are better.

[00:31:16]We are going to deal with you. You are you are the beloved child.

[00:31:22]But really, should we buy that?

[00:31:24]Unfortunately, we do. So it is quite possible that in the minds of some of these countries that are engaging Kenya because they have received or they have a willing partner, they are using it to checkmate the difficult positions or the much tougher position that are being taken by the Uganda administration on certain things. They are doing that.

[00:31:50]Tanzania's foreign policy we know during Malimu Julius Kamarager was quite uh was was quite clear and tough and was very domestically oriented and after that when John Joseph Poaguy came he was very clear you what he did with mining gold mining expelled some of the companies and demanded that they pay tax. So the west a number of western countries were not very happy with that administration.

[00:32:18]As we speak now, the administration of the Tanzanian president Samyasu Hassan is unclear. The westerns are saying you've detained your leading opposition.

[00:32:29]And in Tanzania, they also telling President Museban, your opposition leader is outside of the country. Kenya at least there is no detainee. They may have misbehaved with the Gen Z riots, but they are still better. So it is right to imagine that is divide and rule because when they divide us they make the dream of East Africa be go farther and farther. Yet the desirable position is that we should act as we should act as one. But look at us now because of that divide and conquer.

[00:33:09]We are moving further and further apart from each other. Look at the situation in South Sudan which is a member of the SEC. Look at the relationship between Burundi and Rwanda. Look at the relationship sometimes very uh frosty between Kenya and Tanzania is throwing a little now. Look at the suspicions within the region. So it is divide and conquer. But once again I am saying that argument of our the ease with which we are divided is one that we should not be using time and again. The time has come that we should know what is in our best interest and we are safer working as one unit in East Africa and telling the French telling the others yes deal with us as East Africa whether it is in matters of military whether it is in matters of development of energy whether it is in manufacturing whether is in technology whether is in artificial intelligence Whether it is in textile, we want to speak with one voice and then our specific agenda will be in the context of that voice.

[00:34:25]But we are not saying that. It appears we are celebrating that we are the ones who have been chosen. Is like high school students or primary school students who are happy that I'm the teacher's favorite. The teacher can invite me to tea in their house occasionally. That is not a good space to be in. It erodess our self-esteem.

[00:34:46]It makes our neighbors suspicious about who we are. And in the long run, it is not good for Africa which wants to build an Africa that is strong and independent but sensitive to the realities of the globe under Africa agenda 2063. It is not right for an Africa which wants to have Africa continental free trade area and enhance trade within herself. It is not good for an Africa which has a market of nearly 1.4 billion and can produce those goods and sell them within the African market. So we may sing our hallelujah now but I don't think that that is what we desire in the long term.

[00:35:33]War is an industry and war is at different levels. It need not be a hot war where people are firing bullets at each other. Even trade wars.

[00:35:45]Even sanctions and embaros are wars at a different level. And I'm quite certain that there are those within powers that are dealing with Africa who would want such a situation. They'll tell Kenya, "You have oil. We can come and build you a refinery. Forget about Uganda. They can tell Uganda we can do that for you.

[00:36:09]They can tell uh Mozambi, they can tell Tanzania we can do that. They can tell Burundi, they can tell Rwanda, they can tell the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[00:36:19]So these are things that are happening.

[00:36:22]And if I ever doubted that that is a possibility in the month of February at the Munich peace conference when I heard the foreign secretary of the United States Marubio saying that the Europeans, Western Europeans must defend their civilization, he fell short of saying that if it is necessary, we must recolonize these countries. So it tells you that this kind of thinking is alive and well.

[00:36:50]And if I ever doubted it, when the president of Ghana, John Ramani Mama, took a resolution to the UN for the world to say that the transatlantic trade was a crime against humanity.

[00:37:04]The United States of America, Israel and Argentina voted against the resolution and all the European powers including France, all the colonizers abstained.

[00:37:19]What does that tell you? That in their minds, African countries are still fit for colonization.

[00:37:28]Remember that the DNA of the colonizer does not change.

[00:37:34]They only wear different masks. They may have worn the mask of military control. They are now wearing the mask of diplomacy where they smile. But does it matter whether the person who stabs you at the back is greening or smiling? You are stabbed.

[00:37:56]Nevertheless, it is us to wake up. If we continue in our slumber, they'll say like the English say, let sleeping dogs lie. If you want to change the DNA, you need some genetic engineering. But just to demonstrate how subtle the powers, western powers have become over the years to make you believe that you are now accepted.

[00:38:24]They'll in a token way invite you to the G20.

[00:38:30]You'll make a performer speech.

[00:38:34]You meet a few heads of state and have you a photo op.

[00:38:38]they'll invite you to the G7 and the president of Kenya has been invited to the G G7 after the invitation was withdrawn from the South African president. The original inviteee was Siril Ramapos and the Americans said we are not going to allow him to be there. So the African leader will go there, they'll read a speech, they'll have bilaterals with all the G7 countries, the national newspaper will say how this is great for Kenya.

[00:39:13]But fundamentally nothing changes. If we want to change the DNA of the former colonizer, we ourselves must change. And we have seen in our lifetime how countries have asserted themselves and they have changed.

[00:39:34]The postworld war Soviet Union and now Russia Federation asserted herself and whether you like them or not you can't joke around with them.

[00:39:47]China in the last 30 years has asserted herself and is now the second strongest economy in the world. the factory of the world. They have asserted themselves and they say democracy with Chinese character. India is asserting herself.

[00:40:04]Brazil is asserting herself. Indonesia is asserting yourself. In other words, the state of the world it is that is still the law of the jungle. If you are weak, you'll be eaten. If you demonstrate that you are strong then people will come and negotiate with you in sincerity and you draw the boundaries.

[00:40:31]Africa must do that and Africa can only achieve that if she speaks with one voice. If her economy is integrated and that integration of the economy was must start with the regional economic communities. Saddak, Echoas, East African Community, Maghreb, Central Africa. Then these are the building blocks that you go to Adis Sababas AU with and you tell them we are no longer going to allow African Union and Italy.

[00:41:02]We are no longer going to allow Commonwealth. We are no longer going to allow France a freak. We are not going to attend. We are only going to meet as African Union with European Union. And in that way we will be operating at the level of equality.

[00:41:20]Then that what I call the diplomatic genetic engineering will change and people will say in Europe, oh the scales have fallen from off their eyes and they'll not be happy thereafter. But they will know that things have changed and relationship must be based on mutual respect. See how China is dealt with.

[00:41:48]You don't shout at China. No, you must think twice.

[00:41:54]See how India is dealt with. We can achieve it without being all negative.

[00:42:01]We can argue that if we are wise and clever, we can benefit at different levels. In the short to medium term on on from 11 to 12, all the hotels in Nairobi will be full. So that is good for the economy in the short to medium term. in the in the short term, in the medium term, because this is a global world, we can tell French companies that in terms of engaging with us, we will demand transfer of technology in certain areas.

[00:42:38]And in the long term, we'll tell them that once our companies have matured, we will ring fence certain areas of our economy which will not be allowed for investment.

[00:42:51]logistics. We can do that. Surely we can deal with retail. We don't have to have French supermarkets or French related supermarkets.

[00:43:03]In the area of refineries, we can tell them now that we have oil in northeastern Kenya, if you want to help us build a refinery, you must do so here so that we benefit not only from refining but the byproducts and you begin to divest so that in 25 years time we are in total control of our economy and even if in not in total control but we are relating in a manner that is mutually beneficial. You have 140 and more companies with subsidi French companies with subsidiary in Kenya. Are you opening our market your markets for us in Mar in Leon in Perry so that we can package our coffee here, we can package our honey here, we can package our tea here, we can package our avocado here and they go direct into French supermarkets. This is the kind of negotiation that I would expect to be happening in the back door. But the question will they and in the context of the fact that this is not just a Kenyan engagement but there are other African countries all these countries must have an agenda of how to ensure that the relationship between Africa and France is not simply one where you are giving us the fish without teaching us how to fish. So these are the scenarios. It's the question of given me a lemon, let us make lemonade out of it. But that depends on us. He or she who does not define what he or she wants will be eaten for breakfast.

[00:44:55]Are we prepared?

[00:44:57]We are simply going to dance and celebrate at the meeting and tick the box and wait for another meeting in another African country.

[00:45:08]I hope not.