Going to get an early start on a buy election weekend. This is not the first time this series has cast its gaze upon the West African state of Gabon. In 2023, we discussed the unfortunate Bongo dynasty, and how it was likely to continue....
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The last election in Gabon took place on August 26th, 2023. Longstanding president Ali Bongo Ondimba won 64% of the reported vote and it appeared the Bongo dynasty would continue.
I haven't been doing follow-ups to my election posts, but the news this morning out of Gabon compels a brief one. Ali Bongo was announced the winner (by a margin,.
Albert-Bernard Bongo was born in the colony of French Equatorial Africa, in the city then known Lewai (now known as Bongoville, and no, that's not a coincidence) in 1935, the youngest of 12 children. Unlike many future African politicians of his generation, he did not...