Letter to President Emmanuel Macron

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In a three and a half minute speech, that to many shocked listeners must have sounded much longer, French leader, Emmanuel Macron, this week stunned Africa with rehashed colonial and even racist narratives about the cause and way out of the continent’s under-development. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI gives him a reality check

Dear Sir,

We were in the audience mid-May in the Champs-Élysées at your inauguration, the thunderous applause as you vowed to champion global confidence, our eyes watering with pride at one of world’s youngest leaders, an emotion heightened in importance by the menace rising from the election of Mr Donald J. Trump.

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