Out of worry and concern, I made a phone call to a good friend of mine who lives in the currently famous Ivory Coast.
‘Allo, allo’ he picked up my call in his French accent and my first question was: “Are you ok?”
And he broke into laugher.
Me: shock. Why? I had called to confirm if he is fine, but the man I had called seemed more than fine. He goes on laughing while I am also entertained by the noise in the backyard. Good noise, peaceful noise.
Me: “is everything fine? What’s going on?”
Him:”it’s so funny here. Extremely funny, let me explain.”
Me: drinking my water slowly, wondering if this is a new case of insanity.
Him: “The hotel that Alassane Ouattara is staying in, with the protection of the UN, is a hotel owned by the government. That is the Golf Hotel”
He carries on after laughing again.
“Here we find all this very funny. We have two presidents and two governments. It is very hilarious. We are saying that now we shall develop much faster with two governments and possibly this is how Africa should start doing; it’s the new model of politics. We are waiting for Laurent Gbagbo to set out his five year plan and then Ouattara will share his.”
Now, I am picturing all this information and it suddenly made me burst into laughter. .
Me: “But what is your former boss; France, saying about this?
Him: “When this drama started, Sarkozy asked Laurent to step down. Laurent asked him to write this in a letter and post it to him, and he will reply. Sarkozy then called him several times and he, Laurent did not response and passed on a message to him via his assistants saying, that ‘when he sends the letter to me, I will reply to his letter, so I am still waiting.”
I am glad that some of the Ivoirians are not depressed; after all they are a fun loving bunch. They are the same people whose discos doubled (especially in Abidjan) during the last conflict, and this was noticed when it ended.
This Africa of ours, there will never be another one like it.
Social media is too entertaining. On Twitter one of the fake personalities who entertains me is the fake Alfred Mutua, our government spokesman in a fake version.
These are some of Alfred Mutua’s tweets.
alfredmutua Alfred Mutua
His Excellency Mwai Kibaki will shortly be sworn in after winning Tusker Project Fame
Congratulations to Samuel Kivuitu. President Gbagbo was sworn in at 3 AM this morning by candle light
Government commends Ivory Coast on its vibrant multi-party system where they now have two presidents
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