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African writers turned puppets of Westerners against Pan Africanists
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.