African writers turned puppets of Westerners against Pan Africanists

Author: Emmanuel Mutebi

• 2024-02-05 05:50:00

While Pan-Africanism remains the effective remedy for the West’s systemic racism and bullying targeting Africans, some African journalists who work for Western media end up being used against Pan-Africanists.

They are praised by Westerners; calling them activists, investigative journalists, and so forth. However, what they serve is not investigation. They only spread narratives faked by the West to tarnish the image of any successful African leader.

Western countries have never been happy with any African leader who brought solutions to Africa’s problems. They always want to be the problem solvers for Africa. Any African leaders who challenge that are seen as a threat to the West’s influence in Africa, hence every means possible is used to neutralize or even eliminate them.

Tafi Mhaka, from Zimbabwe, attacked Rwandan President Paul Kagame on February 9, 2023, in his article published by Aljazeera. Titled “Kagame’s achievements should not blind us to his tyranny,” Mhaka claimed that in his opinion Kagame was highly misplaced.

Mhaka acknowledged that Kagame is undoubtedly an important name in African politics, but claimed that “it is highly questionable whether he can or should be described as influential”.

He agreed that Rwanda is an African success story as the country has made significant progress in key areas, from education and agriculture to healthcare and security after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He noted that Rwanda has a majority-female parliament and is considered a world leader in gender equality; and despite taking a hit from COVID-19 like the rest of the world, its economy is now largely stable, as Kigali is hoping to achieve Middle Income Country status by 2035.

But still, his objective was to tarnish the image of President Kagame, portraying him as a “tyrant”. The same tactic has been used, for decades, against other Pan-Africanists to neutralize their influence, incite hate against them, or eliminate them.

Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first Black President of South Africa, from 1994 to 1999, was once considered a criminal in his own country and a communist in the eyes of the West, where he remained on the US’s terrorism watch list until 2008.

The so-called writers like Mhaka and Rutendo Matinyarare from Zimbabwe, Charles Onana, a Franco-Cameroonian, and Neil Munshi from Kenya, among many others, have turned a blind eye to pan-Africanism and chose to serve the West’s interests.

Their relentless agenda is to tarnish the image of President Kagame, one of the African leaders who provide African solutions to African problems. Kagame has been criticizing the West’s neo-colonialism ways of interfering in internal politics of African countries.

The RPF-led government has avoided foreign interference in Rwanda’s internal affairs to maintain the stability of the country, which suffered from bad leadership influenced by Westerners, for decades.

The result of the West’s interference in Rwanda’s political life was the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.