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If you traveled to Berlin to tell people that King Leopold killed people, you'd be exposing nothing. That's History 101. There is a fundamental question these woke dummies who claim to want to save Africa ignore. Yes, Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into a personal slaughterhouse. Millions murdered. Hands chopped off for rubber. So what? What does that help with the economy today? What does that help with healthcare? Infrastructure? Technology? Development? Having an international platform and using it to tell everyone what they already know. How is that going to help Africa? The problem with these woke people is they think they're being attacked when they're asked to be logical, not emotional. Yes, we go back to that history, to reflect on how far Africa has come, not as a strategy, a victimhood script, or a self-pity guidebook, because that doesn't help. Africa needs builders, not crybabies looking for every opportunity to compete in the Victimhood Olympics. Almost every nation has its dark chapter, but don't use it the way it's used for Africa, to gain sympathy that doesn't build or help anything.

African foreign policy is pure trash. These African heads of state love to act tough. They beat their chests, parade around as hardcore anti-imperialists, and swear up and down they are standing up to the West. But it is all an act. The second the East shows up, they fold like a deck of cards. Just look at the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow. African heads of state and delegations from 48 countries lined up just to listen to Vladimir Putin pitch grain and infrastructure. They are chasing after a trade relationship that sat at $27 billion in 2025, desperate for a slice of the pie while being told what they want to hear. And it's even worse when Beijing calls. At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), over 50 African leaders rushed to Beijing because China dangled a $50.7 billion financial pledge over three years. They aren't actually against imperialism or colonization. They don't give a damn about true sovereignty. They just want to choose their masters. While they lecture the West about autonomy, their total collective external debt has spiralled out of control, leaving individual countries to secure weaker, country by country bilateral deals instead of standing together as a unified continent. They are actively running away from accountability and rushing straight into the arms of the authoritarian club. Why? Because the "no-preaching" lending tactics of the East mean lowered standards, zero human rights questions, and rock-bottom expectations. They want the freedom to misgovern, sign off on resource-heavy deals without public oversight, and run their countries into the ground without anyone calling them out. It's pathetic. The West actually respected them more. The West put real capital on the table, offered massive developmental aid, and wanted to build actual, lasting infrastructure. But they demanded accountability in return. And that is exactly what scares these parasitic elites to death. The African mafia politicians don't operate on logic, or patriotism, or economics. They operate on pure, unadulterated thievery. They don't want development; they want a payout. They would gladly sell out their country’s sovereignty, strip their own people bare, and take backhanders from eastern autocrats just to line their own pockets. They choose state-sanctioned robbery over national progress every single day of the week. It is a disgrace.

In America, the 9/11 attacks remain a memory of loved ones lost and the hatred behind that attack. In Israel, the Holocaust remains a memory of how the world was once determined to wipe them out. When it comes to Africa, however, victimhood and traumatic history are turned into the strategy itself, the permanent foreign policy, the economic strategy, the education system, the permanent politics. That's the one flaw, the huge error. No building, just reminding everyone "we were slaves, we were colonized" isn't smart, considering almost every nation carries some version of that history. We can remember, but sitting still and refusing to build, evolve, move forward, and win because of history, that's just plain foolish.

In 2026, crying over colonization is the ultimate victimhood mentality, it is a total political and intellectual surrender. Africa is still immensely wealthy in natural assets, so development is clearly not a issue of resource scarcity. Under full sovereignty, we must ask, how effectively is this wealth actually being used to benefit African citizens? Believing that a continent cannot recover from its past is a textbook inferiority complex, especially when former colonies outside Africa are now global economic giants.

Analyze pre-colonial Africa, look at the infrastructure left behind after European rule, and evaluate the continent's state today under full African control. Once you look at the data across all three eras, you'll realize how absurd it is to say "Europe underdeveloped Africa."

They say "Death to America," but they can't seem to stay away from it. Why? The Khamenei regime screams about "The Great Satan" while their relatives flaunt luxury lifestyles and hold teaching posts at elite US universities from Los Angeles to New York. Over 4,000 relatives of Iranian officials live in the West, they preach Sharia at home but practice shopping sprees in Beverly Hills. It's the same for the Russians, the oligarchs who condemn Western decadence wouldn't dream of sending their kids to a university in Siberia when London and New York real estate is calling. Then there are the African dictators. They blame Western Imperialism for every local failure, yet they still use Paris and D.C. as their personal bank accounts and playgrounds. Even the Islamist regimes want their people stuck in the 7th century while they enjoy 21st century medicine and tech built by the very "infidels" they claim to hate. If America is so evil, why are their bank accounts, their children's diplomas, and their Plan B villas all located there? The revolution is always for the poor, but the Western lifestyle is for the Noble Born. This is peak hypocrisy and absolute moral bankruptcy.

The United States and the United Kingdom are not in competition with developing African nations. It is logically bankrupt to claim that global powers are actively sabotaging Africa's infrastructure or modernizing efforts, in reality, a stable and prosperous Africa would provide a massive new market for their own goods and services. It is time to discard the tired excuses that serve only to dodge accountability for internal failures in innovation and competency. While some cling to the narrative of external interference, successful nations elsewhere have proven that governance, accountability, and the rule of law are the true drivers of development. Blaming the West for a lack of domestic progress is not anti-imperialism, it is a refusal to address the corruption and mismanagement that actually hinder African advancement.

The most effective trap set for Africa was the preservation of a victimhood narrative, one that many Africans have unknowingly embraced. While former British colonies elsewhere have leveraged their history to build global powerhouses, too many African nations remain tethered to the past, settling for the bare minimum while perpetually blaming imperialism for modern stagnation. Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong aren't so bad today. They're building and innovating, they're not participating in the Victimhood Olympics.