Libreville, Gabon – “Traditional polarity is changing and with that Gabon must also change,” Michael Moussa-Adamo, Gabon’s foreign minister, told Al Jazeera shortly before the Central African country joined the Commonwealth last month. Along with Togo, it became the latest Francophone African country to join Britain’s club of mostly former colonies, despite the duo having no historic links to London.
The two African countries were once considered “France’s back yard”, ruled by dynastic dictatorships supported by Paris.
