Bastille States

A Bastille State is a country that is like a production prison for France.
Examples of Bastille States:

Boukina Faso
Central African Republic
Chad
Boukina Faso
Congo Brazzaville
Comoroes Islands
Cote d'Ivoire
Gabon
Mali
Niger
Republic of Cameroun
Southern Cameroons (colonized by a Bastille State on behalf of France)
Senegal

Characteristics of a Bastille State:
Usually a former French colony, governed by a president who is effectively a French colonial governor with a black face
It votes lockstep with France at the United Nations
It belongs to the Francophonie, an international organization for the adoration of all things French
All its citizens carry ID cards, can be stopped at any time and have no rights
Society rewards people for their frenchness
France controls its government, economy and banking sector
It still uses a version of the now defunct French franc as its currency. France controls its central bank and dictates monetary policy. [As the British minister said, Europe is complicit with France in keeping Africa underdeveloped]
French people have more rights and opportunities than its citizens
It sides with France to oppose, to hijack or to sabotage any project that brings Africans together for Africa's common good
It is more "brotherly" with France than with non-francophone African countries

Notable "Presidents" of Bastille States:

Paul Biya of Cameroun

Albert B Bongo of Gabon
Sassou Nguesso of Congo

Comments

[Bana Fako]

Add Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria to the Batille States.

[tibor]

This is so biased, I can't believe what I'm reading here. These presidents are interested only by money an power, and historic roots makes it more logic to have ties with france. But as soon as money stops flowing, they will change. Witness what happening in Senegal, where president Abdulaye Wade is trying to get more money frome the US, therefore getting less from France : he knows where the money is. BTW Francophonie is not and adoration thing, but the community of french-speaking countries. Commonwealth would be another exemple of such an organisation. Chexk out http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/Thema/dossier.GB.asp?DOS=FRANCOPHONY

[Frank]

Tibor:
You obviously need to read and learn. After that, we could talk about bias. There are some good texts to start, such as Francois-Xavier Verschave's Francafrique: Le plus long scandale de la Republique featured in the book section of this website. For those from the Bastille states, the French presence has been and remains a suffocating presence.
Frank

[Jean]

All of this site is just pure and mono ,orientated total disinformation.
Do not quote Mr Vershave's book, he is mainly an old anarchist, suffering with an obsession for Cirac and the deep and true links between France and Africa, that he just can't understand.
He has freedon of speach, as living in France, but he certainly isn't a quotable reference AT ALL.
I could also create such a site, entirely diedicated to the evilness of africans, or Americans, or...jews, or whatever

By the way, it is obvious you, webmaster of this site, must be updating it from somewhere in France!
We have in France about 2 millions black africans, on which half are legals!
The border towns of morocco and Algeria are pâcked up with thousands of blacks who will die rather than not crossing illegaly the mediterranean sea to reach our european countries.
THIS is the real truth, these are the real facts, all your site is just so naive, disinformative, pease, try to migle with your own business (private, work, raise childs, job) rather than interfer in the "high diplomatic, politic field, that you, obviously do not know, nor understand"
I'll send you a e mail from my future site "watch illegal african immigration, and african terror in africa by africans, ethnical massacres and discrimination.com"