Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Biography of Omar Bongo: The Dictator Who Ruled Gabon for 42 Years" video.

  1. But it's not their fault that Bongo was a willing puppet.
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  2. But Gabon is oil-dependent and much of the population is poor just like its neighbor Equatorial Guinea.
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  3.  @205west8  Or 3) Be a Soviet puppet like Mengistu and watch the country deteriorate over time.
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  4.  @guppy719  Namely because of oil just like its neighbor Equatorial Guinea. But most of the people are poor as the regime controls nearly all the wealth.
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  5.  @elizabethsohler6516  Not entirely.
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  6. Nyerere wasn't exterminated.
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  7.  @allengreene9954  Like what? Make it the poster child for famine?
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  8. LOL. And what has that accomplished for its neighbor Equatorial Guinea, also oil-rich with a small population?
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  9. So that the ordinary people can squander it and go back to suffering.
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