KENYA FALLING INTO FRANCE’S GRIP
When apparent anti-imperialist officers in Benin’s army launched an ill-fated coup attempt against Patrice Talon’s French-backed regime, the country’s former coloniser, France, moved swiftly to crush the uprising.
What was striking, however, was that the country carrying out the dirty work by launching lethal airstrikes and spearheading a ground intervention was not a former French colony at all. Instead, it was Benin’s much larger Anglophone neighbour to the east, Nigeria. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigeria increasingly appears willing to act as a proxy not only for France but also for the United States.
As Booker Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist – Kenya, explains in this wide-ranging interview, Nigeria is not the only former British colony falling under France’s influence as Paris reels from its losses across the Sahel. His own country, Kenya, now faces the same danger under President William Ruto.
Having already distinguished himself as a Western proxy by deepening ties with Israel, recognising the RSF’s parallel authority in Sudan, and sending Kenyan police to enforce a neo-colonial occupation of Haiti, Ruto is now extending the same diplomatic immunity to French troops in Kenya that British forces enjoy through BATUK, the British Army Training Unit Kenya, the UK’s largest overseas military deployment, based near Nanyuki. Critics argue this arrangement has functioned as a licence for abuse with near-total impunity.
In 2026, Ruto is set to host the next France-Africa Summit.
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