Digestible Insights: Only a United African Liberation is True Liberation

Curt Weldon, US Congressman, admitting on 14 April 2025 that the United States government and European governments saw African economic unity (a form of Pan-Africanism) as a threat, which is why the US targeted and destroyed Libya and Muammar al-Gaddafi:

Just like Libya, we [the United States of America] were the ones who caused [Muammar] Gaddafi's death because Hilary Clinton played a game over there.
I was the one who went over there [to Libya] during the war. Gaddafi asked me to come over. I took a Biden staffer and a Bush staffer and a film crew from ABC 1 in New York, Larry Menti and a cameraman, because I didn't want the CIA to set me up.
I hand carried the letter back from Gaddafi offering to resign [as president of Libya].
The US [government] did not want him to resign, they wanted to kill him.
I met him three times. I took Biden in my second trip to Libya by the way. He went with me when I spoke to the whole country.
At every meeting I had with Gaddafi, he wanted two things:
—to unite the African continent into a group of nations economically (like the European economy);
—based on the gold standard.
The US and Europe did not want that. 
The other thing is they [the United States and Europe] wanted control of his oil and they wanted control of his sovereign wealth, so Gaddafi had to go.
That is outrageous and it's wrong. 

Jeffrey Sachs, author of New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, speaking at the Antalya Forum held on 12 Apr 2025 and laying out the US government’s role in training “terrorist” forces while architecting the destabilisation of another country, in this case, Syria:

Netanyahu’s idea is to make the Middle East in Israel’s image, overthrow every government that opposes Israel. He has had a friend in that and that is the United States government and the CIA. This war in Syria did not come from Assad’s repression. It did not come from Assad’s dictatorship.
This [Syrian] war came from a presidential order by [Barack] Obama to overthrow Assad, starting in the Spring of 2011.
We have a name for this programme, it was operation Timber Sycamore. The United States together with other countries in this region trained fighters, especially Jihadists, including the ones that just took power, to overthrow the regime.
This created chaos, 600 000 dead in Syria in a war that’s gone on for fourteen years.
The outcome of this war is what the CIA wanted back in 2011, which was a Jihad group to take power in Syria after being armed by the United States.
The reason I want to be clear about this is because we will not have peace in this region until we have public diplomacy that is based on real diplomacy, not on CIA operations.
And we will not have peace until Israel stops its militarisation of the entire Middle East.

Chris Hani, member of the African National Congress and leader of the South African Communist Party who was assassinated prior to the 1994 elections by a European immigrant living in South Africa who was recently allowed to go back to Poland without ever disclosing on whose orders (whether foreign and/or domestic) had he assassinated Mr Hani.

In this moment, Hani articulates the need for redistribution of wealth as part of a revised economic system. Following his murder, redistribution of wealth was a wish rather than an outcome from the ANC government:

Well, I think South Africans are discussing which is the best economic programme to implement in a post-apartheid South Africa. Even non-Marxists have agreed that something has got to be done about the redistribution of wealth in our country.
I know that Prof Sampie Terreblanche at Stellenbosch who was for a long time a member of the National Party, I don't know if he still is, agrees that in addressing the imbalances in our country, something drastic has got to be done.
We want to bring about social harmony in our country.
And that social harmony is impossible if we do not redistribute wealth and resources.
I am not referring to vulgar equalisation.
All I am saying is that every person in South Africa (this should be our objective) should:
-have three meals a day;
-have shelter, not the squatter shacks or compounds.
Every child should have proper schools. We must have the same medical facilities.
How do we do that?
I don't think in South Africa we should look for models but I think we have a duty, if we are going to stop the current divisions, heal the wounds of apartheid divisions, [we need] to balance things.
Now, you are an Afrikaner. You have your own history and are part of the important national groups in our country. At one time, you [of Dutch colonising descent] were disadvantaged. The British [colonisers] treated you as second-class citizens. Your language was not given the same status as English, you were an ordinary farmer in the '30s and '40s and most of you were poor.
We are in the exact same position...
You nationalised Eskom, Iscor...you worked out affirmative [action] programmes to uplift the 'Afrikaner', you helped them with heavy subsidies to buy [and operate] farms so that they should have land. 

Charles Abugre, Development Economist from Ghana, discussing the morphing of western direct colonialism in Africa into western neo-colonialism, where western control of Africa did not change in substance, except that it expanded the boundaries of foreign exploitation and control:

We have to remember that countries across Africa were integrated into the global economy forcefully by [western] colonisation.
In the African context, that integration began a long time ago through forced export of labour [or kidnapped and trafficked people] from the continent, in the form of the Transatlantic and Trans-Sahara slave trade.
All of our countries have seen these different dimensions of forced labour movements. And that was the first step of integrating African economies into a particular character of capitalism at that time.
Formal [direct] colonisation entrenched that [integration into capitalism] in the form of control of natural [African] resources beyond labour exports. So the use of [cheap] labour for the extraction for the centre, imperial economies [in the western world].
Many Africans will say, the character of the current [global] economy still reflects that type of integration.
So, when in the 1980s and 1990s, the language of globalisation emerged, it was simply another mechanism of entrenching the relationship between Africa collectively, African countries individually, and the global economy, then controlled by the same imperial powers...

Floyd Shivambu, Secretary-General of the MK Party in South Africa, criticising the visit to South Africa by Ukrainian President Zelensky whose government was involved in sending rebel forces intelligence to destabilise the independence movement in Africa’s Mali (and this was while his country Ukraine was in its own years-long war):

We strongly condemn Mr Ramaphosa's misguided decision to extend an invitation to [Volodymyr] Zelensky, the puppet president of Ukraine.
The MK [Party] views this move as a clear alignment with European and western imperialist interests, and an affront to South Africa's historical position of non-alignment and anti-imperialism.
Accordingly, uMkhonto weSizwe [MK Party] will formerly oppose any official visit of Zelensky to South Africa.
And we will stage a protest against the visit of Zelensky into South Africa.
We do not want him to come [to South Africa] because he has been a puppet of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] led militarism, which sought to destabilise eastern Europe and possibly the entire world through an unfair expansion of NATO forces. 

Samantha Jansen, South African artist, discussing the risk of using foreign technology on Africa’s sovereignty, in this case western-controlled and made satellites:

The interesting part about Elon Musk and Afriforum, there is over 600 American companies operating in South Africa.
You look at South African white people, the majority who own companies, how are they able to run companies [in South Africa]. So why is he [Elon Musk] so adamant about wanting to operate [here] but he must own 100% of Starlink in South Africa.
It is his company, I understand, but for me, what makes Starlink different from all the other tech companies [in South Africa]?
It is apparently able to give internet to rural areas so that's what they are pushing.
However, it can also be used to spy on the country.
When a country does not have control over their own telecoms, what does that do? It exposes the country, right? 
So, if you look at Afriforum and you look at what they are pushing. And you look at Elon Musk and what he is pushing, knowing full well that he has multiple "friends" like Rob Hersov and so on that are operating in South Africa...
If there's a [white] genocide in South Africa, you as Elon Musk who keeps on tweeting about this so-called genocide, why do you want to be in [business] with South Africa unless you get to benefit from South Africa?
Unless there's something in South Africa that you want...and for me, it's to hack our telecommunications.