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Omar Bongo: Pint-sized ‘dinosaur’ who stifled Gabon

By Juma Kwayera

True to form, the late Gabonese leader, like the legion of post-colonial African presidents and freebooters, came to power and relegated his citizenry to mere spectators of the plunder and rape of their natural resources. And like his contemporaries, Bongo’s legacy is abject poverty.

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