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Find Korrine on LinkedIN and Substack . Togo’s first president was gunned down at his own gate in 1963. His crime? Daring to reject France’s money. Sylvanus Olympio wanted more than a flag and an anthem. He wanted a currency for his people. A future not chained to Paris. For that, he was shot dead by Togolese soldiers trained in France. Africa’s first post-independence coup. The weapon was not just the gun. It was the CFA franc. Created in 1945, it forced African nations to deposit their reserves in the French Treasury. It gave Paris veto power over African economies. It made independence a flag ceremony... and nothing more. France called it “stability.” In truth, it was financial slavery. An empire without the cost of soldiers. Olympio was killed. Lumumba was killed. Sankara was killed. Nkrumah was overthrown. The message was written in blood: Africa may raise its flags. But touch the money... and you will fall. And what did it mean for the people? A farmer in Togo sells cocoa for pe...

 Find Korrine on LinkedIN and Substack .   Right now, Congolese children are digging cobalt with their bare hands, so the world can call Teslas and iPhones “clean.” A Congolese father once sat on a porch staring at his daughter’s severed hand and foot. She was five. She was mutilated because her village missed its rubber quota. That rubber lined bicycles in Paris. Car tires in London. Factory belts in America. Leopold II of Belgium called it civilisation. It was genocide. Ten million Congolese lives traded for European modernity. 1960: Patrice Lumumba stood on independence day and refused to play polite. He told the truth: independence was won... not gifted. That Congo’s wealth should serve Congolese families. And for that, Belgium, the CIA, and local collaborators marked him for death. He was beaten. Humiliated. Flown to Katanga. Shot by a firing squad with Belgian officers watching. His body dug back up, hacked apart, dissolved in acid. His teeth stolen as trophies. Th...

Find Korrine on LinkedIN and Substack .   65 years ago, Nigeria celebrated political independence. But full independence was never achieved. Britain left behind the architecture of control. Borders drawn for profit, not people. Governments beholden to foreign capital. Economies designed for extraction, not growth. Nigeria as a single nation only came into existence in 1914, at the Amalgamation of Nigeria. In 2025, that makes the country just 111 years old. Much of Nigerian history was written by the coloniser, shaping how independence is remembered. Here’s the truth rarely said: The “Father of Nigeria” is a myth, a story crafted by those who benefit from forgetting. Nigeria was not born of unity or self-determination. It was forged by British businessmen and colonial architects; men whose names Britain still celebrates as “great” empire-builders. In Nigeria it was Sir George Goldie and his Royal Niger Company. Cecil Rhodes in Southern Africa, Ian Smith in Rhodesia. Different cou...

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O jornalista Pierre Godon lembra-nos do peso da IA no mundo editorial em França. Imagem espetacular de Pauline Le Nours , designer gráfica editorial da franceinfo .                «Certains éditeurs se fichent de sortir un livre pourri» S'ils avaient dû manifester, ils auraient laissé tomber le trajet classique entre Bastille et Nation pour un parcours de la rue Littré à la rue Larousse, deux artères du sud de Paris célébrant des auteurs de dictionnaires. Mais la grève des traducteurs, mardi 30 septembre, se fera à bas bruit. A l'appel du collectif IA Alerte générale, ces professionnels sont invités à délaisser stylos et claviers pour vingt-quatre heures à l'occasion de la Saint-Jérôme, le saint patron de la profession. Une première pour ce corps de métier. "Comme pour tous les emplois de gens qui bossent de chez eux en pyjama avec un chat sur les genoux, c'est dur de se faire entendre" , ironise Charles Recoursé, à qui on doit ...

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by Mizuki Uchiyama for BBC Travel . As Studio Ghibli turns 40, we visit the forests, springs and villages that inspired its most beloved films, and meet those preserving their magic. From moss-draped cedar forests to steamy bathhouses and suburban woodlands, the animated worlds of Studio Ghibli often feel fantastical yet familiar. Across 23 feature films, the Japanese studio's vividly drawn landscapes – where kurosuke  ( soot sprites ) scuttle and giant cat-buses roam – have transported generations of viewers into realms where nature and fantasy blur. But many of these beloved settings weren't born from pure imagination. They were inspired by real places across Japan – some sacred, others endangered but all profoundly cherished. As Studio Ghibli celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, we're exploring the real-world places behind some of its most iconic films. Yakushima is a rare and enchanting landscape that inspired Princess Mononoke (Credit: Alamy) Yakushima: T...

By Spencer Klavan.for The Free Press . No one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect,” wrote the scholar of literacy Martha Maxwell in 1979. But more and more , educators are finding that the last few years have been meaningfully different. Students are showing up at even high-end schools having never read a novel cover to cover. Columbia literature professor Nicholas Dames told The Atlantic ’s Rose Horowitch that his students “struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.” Last month, as students returned to school, a new study made headlines because it found that the number of Americans who read for pleasure has dropped an astonishing 40 percent since the start of the century.  As a college teacher, I’ve noticed this trend too. My students are perfectly earne...