Daily Inspiration Quote by Omar Bongo

A statesman praising "complete freedom of information" is never just praising freedom; he is staking a claim on the future while trying to stay in charge of it. Omar Bongo’s line has the clean, export-ready sheen of late-20th-century democratic language, but its power sits in the qualifiers he chooses and the ones he avoids. "In favor of" is political posture, not a policy. "Complete" is an aspirational adjective that sounds bold precisely because it’s hard to operationalize. He gestures at a principle that reads like a human-rights charter, then anchors it in a specific technology: "the new communication tools, in particular the Internet". That pivot matters. It reframes free expression less as dissent and more as modernization.

The intent is twofold: to present Gabon as plugged into global norms and to position the state as the sponsor of connectivity. In many post-Cold War African contexts, the Internet arrived carrying a promise Western donors loved: transparency, markets, civil society. Bongo’s rhetoric taps that promise while keeping the noun abstract. He doesn’t say "press", "opposition", "whistleblowers", or "government records" - the friction points where "complete freedom" gets tested. He says "information" and "access", terms that can be satisfied with infrastructure and training programs as much as with legal protections.

The subtext is managerial: information wants to be free, but someone must build the pipes. By embracing the Internet in principle, Bongo attempts to convert an unruly force into a development narrative - freedom as bandwidth, not accountability. The line works because it sounds like liberation while leaving ample room for control.