France’s formal military withdrawal from Côte d’Ivoire may signal transition, but across Africa many continue questioning whether the deeper architecture of post-colonial influence ever truly disappeared.
Haiti’s Stolen Centuries: From France’s 1825 “Ransom” to Vectus Global’s New Incursion
By InnerKwest – Haiti Historian – August 20, 2025 Two hundred years after France forced the world’s first Black republic to pay for its own freedom, Haiti faces a new bill—this time in the currency of sovereignty. In mid-August 2025, Blackwater founder Erik Prince said his new company, Vectus Global, has a 10-year deal with Haiti’s interim authorities: first to fight …