The French Man And The African Woman

The rape case which is being brought against the French head of the IMF is making the headlines in the mediascape. However, it was the wit of John Stewart that brought home the implication of the allege rape with which Mr. Strauss-Kahn is being charged. Stewart indicated that Strauss-Kahn (a French man) was trying to physically do to and African woman what France has been doing to the continent of Africa - have his way with her. France has been raping Africa for a very long time now - but that is a metaphorical way of expressing the exploitation which some African countries have been suffering at the hands of France. Now, a French man wanted to do or perhaps did the act literally. For France, Africa has always been a woman to be raped. Perhaps the arrest of Strauss-Kahn is a metaphor that France will soon answer for its exploitation of Africa.