Alex has very informative and thoughtful articles on the subject, and unlike most people on the ground who dream of a panafrican currency to replace the CFA (basically repeating the mistakes of the euro), he rightfully sees bitcoin as the only alternative. The central African Republic gave us hope, but they turned out to be scammers. You see, most of the problems on the continent are home made, and not related to France, on the contrary! At least France left relatively prosperous and well functioning countries. We've squandered all that heritage. The problem i see with blaming France is that we forget about this important fact. I'm not saying the CFA is perfect, it's not, but the alternative can only be bitcoin. Thanks siggy.

That's very true, and it's precisely because of the endemic corruption that you don't want them anywhere near the money printer. I'm sure they understand it, as well as they know that the relative stability of the CFA contributes to maintain them in power.