Rich meals bring out the vultures

Apr 05, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – Africa is experiencing an awakening, slowly rising, conscious of the great riches in the place that the invaders called the Dark Continent. A Dark Continent, this dark heart of Africa, as the schemers and exploiters called it. They knew about rubber and timber, manpower resources, and from Great Britain to Holland, to France and Germany, plunged in and tore all those out to fill their pockets. Now, there are great discoveries of oil, gold, uranium, cobalt, and other minerals, across Africa. As Angola, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Senegal, to name a few, have tapped into great natural resource discoveries over the decades, most citizens have existed in poverty from cradle to grave. The wealth of these Africans has been shipped away, while they themselves live with hard times.

Regarding why this is so, the evidence lies in how some African leaders of countries with great wealth live. When their lifestyles are lavish, and they surround themselves with family and yes-men in key positions, who also enrich themselves, that explains the hard life of the common people. Leaders and their flunkeys corrupt themselves, like the de Santos clan in Angola, with millions parceled out among themselves. The money that belongs to the people never get to them in the amounts that they should, for what could make a difference. From foreign masters to the local masters replacing them, citizens are taken advantage of, with their wealth siphoned off, leaving them sick, hungry, and hopeless. The new trick involves how the foreigners control the local masters, use them to divide the population, and pit them one against the other.

The powers that operate in foreign capitals compile hefty dossiers on the leaders of countries with massive amounts of wealth, those who robbed their people left and right, and then turn the screws on those vulnerable leaders. National leaders, who are the biggest presences in their countries, have no choice but to trick their own people again. Cheating and stealing from them before left those leaders in a deep hole, open to exploitation, so they are left with no choice but to trick their people again. The name of the con game is foreign investment. Foreign investment that facilitates the skills, technology, and capital that tear a country’s riches out of its seas and lands. Because local presidents and prime ministers have put themselves in these compromising situations, they are forced to play the con game with foreign investors. The latter’s primary objective is to profit handsomely at the expense of the population. Like they do with a wounded animal, the birds of prey pounce and rip great slabs of flesh to tame their endless greed momentarily.

Jobs and fresh millions pouring in for national prosperity are what compromised political leaders make their selling points. The jobs are of the kinds that the foreign companies don’t want, and the promised prosperity always elude hopeful citizens when the record everywhere is of foreign corporations making huge profits from the metals, ores and liquid gold that they harvest, why are the citizens of those countries forever trapped in a sea of poverty? Because the heads of compromised leaders are in a vise that could be tightened at will. Their corruptions have reduced them to helpless hostages and hiding from the people what is really happening with their wealth. Having dirtied their hands, and made that kind of bed for themselves, the choices before them are ugly. Their real estate holdings are known, can’t help them. So, too, their shell accounts are set up to conceal loot stolen from their people, and which is a dagger aimed between their eyes.

They stand quietly aside and let the foreign corporate vultures gorge themselves on the natural resources’ wealth of their people. Or they break free of the foreign yoke, and face the wrath of the people, whose trust they betrayed. Citizens that were cheated, forced to live like beggars, get to decide their fate. Africans are coming to their senses, getting rid of those who forced them to live like animals, and hatred for their neighbours. Corporate predators are being called to account by new leaders, and it is either they come to terms, or they ship out.

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