Anyone who doesn’t remember Carlos “Filinto” Botelho and Jorge Pimba Marreta can pass the newspaper to the next person and continue on their journey. Anyone who remembers will certainly feel an echo in the first reference, “meteorology, today we’re going to talk about meteorology, rain, sun, pipe, mud. Mud, boots. Boots, troop boots. Troop boots, war and war, Africa, mother Africa, and that’s where we’re going, to Cacuácu, to interview this Baby Jesus, with the face of Michael Jackson”! And there was also a Magus King, a lookalike of Nino Vieira, as well as the suggestion of the book “Congo de Natal, by Charles Dingas”!
“Africa – Mother Africa”, like everything old, is confirmed in its contradictions and while we discover a Madagascar, which is not from Disney and whose President (PR), Andry Rajoelina, 51, has been a PR since 2003. He was 29 when he was elected, a transgenerational rejection being natural. So much so that the military refused to fire, 22 dead and more than 100 injured later, now joining the ranks of the protest.
While this Generation Z contests “upside down” in the southern hemisphere, at the “navel of the imaginary cross” that the Equator makes with the Greenwich Meridian, which was once Lisbon and Madrid, there is Cameroon, whose presidential elections took place yesterday and today are expected to confirm the victory of PR leader Paul Biya, 92, who has been on the throne for 40 years!
Ivory Coast has confirmed that it will not authorize former PR Laurent Gbabo and the opposition leader, Tidjane Thiam, to run for presidential elections on October 25th, transforming election day into the day of the plebiscite for a fourth term for PR Allasane Outtara, 82! There are 237 people detained, in the protests that continue to grow, since the 4th!
The Republic of Guinea saw a recent plebiscite for a new Constitution, which allows Interim PR Mamady Doumbouya, who went from Corporal to Colonel, leading the coup in 2021, to present himself as clean and presidential on December 28, the date set for the elections and the end of the transition process. Also here are the “zees” of zizania, contesting the military and the entire establishment.
What doesn’t Gen Z have?
He doesn’t have the gold of the Oval Office, nor the military decorations on his chest. Because they are treated as transparent, at work and in the family, they have the invisible medals of being competent, from whom the boss asks everything, because he knows he won’t have to correct them! Being competent and ignored means emigrating, so as not to buy the rope!
What doesn’t Gen Z want?
Above all, you don’t want to drown in the mire of frustration you saw your parents spiral into, always nurturing hope, while bile was accumulating in your liver, which is why they still water it with wine!
Politologist/Arabist, www.maghreb-machrek.pt. Write according to the old spelling