Jean Victor Lemvo

Member of "Solidaire" - Pointe Noire (Congo Brazzaville).

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Extending a hand to the Africans

by Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet, Aminata Barry Touré, Emilie Tamadaho Atchaca, Ibrahim Yacouba, Jean Victor Lemvo, Luc Mukendi, Solange Koné, Sophie Perchellet, Victor Nzuzi

20 July 2009
Obama’s revamping of the Unites States’ image is still in full swing. In a speech delivered in Accra before the Ghanaian parliament, he reached out to Africans and vowed to help them defeat under-development. As previously in Cairo and Moscow, Obama’s rhetoric charmed the western media - at last relieved to have a winsome ’emperor’ to report on - but was strongly rebuked by those for whom his message was intended. Leading members of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) analyse Obama’s paternalistic discourse.