Mamadou Koulibaly 2008-10-28

Mamadou Koulibaly, president of Côte d’Ivoire’s national assembly takes issue with France’s reticence in confronting the ills of its African colonial past. Unlike other western democracies that have by and large acknowledged their culpability, France continues to fall short of doing this. In July of 2007, Sarkozy gave a speech in Dakar that embodies this inability to speak frankly about France’s African past.