INSIDE THE SECRETIVE WORLD OF AFRICAN FREEMASONRY


Freemasonry exerts a particularly strong influence in Africa, as this special report compiled by West Africa Newsletter highlights. With heads of state such as Denis Sassou Nguesso, Francois Bozize, Ali Bongo and Idriss Deby in charge of Africa's grand lodges, one might expect affairs to run smoothly. But African freemasonry is every bit as prey to rivalry and internal power struggles as the Grand National Lodge of France, to whom the African lodges answer.

WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°618 - 08/09/2011
POWER PLAYERS
Ouattara’s Constitutional Council
It may be harder than it seems to spot the difference between President Alassane Ouattara and his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo. (...)  [335 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°617 - 25/08/2011
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Putsch in the Grand Lodge
Dissention in the Grand National Lodge of France, whose Grand Master is refusing to resign, is nothing compared with the warring inside the Grand Lodge of Benin. (...)  [196 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°615 - 07/07/2011
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Ouattara’s Masonic government
Freemasonry is a hallmark of the new administration in Ivory Coast. Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was initiated as member of the organisation by Grand Master Djibril Bassole, Burkina Faso’s foreign minister. (...)  [184 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°608 - 24/03/2011
COURT CIRCULAR
Grand Lodge for Central Africa
On the initiative of the Cercle Damien Kandolo (CD), Congo-K’s Masonic fraternity in Europe, the first edition of a conference “Humanist and Secular values: (...)  [82 words]   [€1,5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°605 - 10/02/2011
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Freemasons keep even lower profile
The Freemasons of the Grand Lodge of the Ivory Coast (GLCI) are as divided as the country’s political classes, with the pro-Gbagbo faction and the pro-Ouattara faction eyeing each other with barely disguised hostility. (...)  [244 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°603 - 13/01/2011
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North-south freemasonry fracas
Mbenawar Bataka, a kabye who hails from Sarakawa is looking to extend his mandate as Grand Master of the influential National Grand Lodge of Togo (GLNT), from three to five years on the sixth anniversary of President Gnassingbe Eyadema’s death, which will be remembered in a memorial on February 5 in Kara, Gnassingbe’s birthplace in northern Togo. (...)  [309 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°601 - 09/12/2010
POWER PLAYERS
Bongo takes action on YouTube leak
The posting on YouTube of a video showing Ali Bongo’s inauguration as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon caused upset in the presidential palace (WAN 600). (...)  [393 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°600 - 25/11/2010
POWER PLAYERS
Objective 2011 elections
Back home from his tour of Singapore and Saudi Arabia on November 17, Ali Bongo Ondimba exploded furiously at his cabinet for failing to stop the internet publication of images of his instalment as Grand Master of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Gabon. (...)  [329 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°599 - 11/11/2010
POWER PLAYERS
Bongo’s Beninese guru works magic
Ali Bongo’s Beninese-origin head of cabinet Maixent Accrombessi, who previously worked at the defence ministry when Bongo was defence minister, is increasingly a key figure in his entourage. (...)  [316 words]   [€5]
WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°597 - 14/10/2010
POWER PLAYERS
Sassou to take control of army
Still getting over his recent illness (WAN 596), even though he presided over a seven hour cabinet meeting on October 1, Denis Sassou NGuesso is waiting until after celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the Congolese National Grand Lodge in Brazzaville on October 16 before carrying out an internal shake up of his regime. (...)  [398 words]   [€5]


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