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Community
Opportunities: Hersi’s and Hundeyin’s posts? One is in
West Africa and the other in the East, but the
African leaders and moreso AU must start fact remains that all of Africa is suffering
putting their house in order . The continued from the same delusion and the white savior
begging has to come to end. Leaders in complex, which makes us think we need to
Africa travel in fuel guzzlers convoys not sell our raw materials to foreign nations at
even the funding organisations are that cheap prices so they can favor us in their aid
wasteful. I call it the Shame of Africa. It’s programs. But here comes Trump who cares
about time we got serious as a continent. less about your feelings and expectations.
I also saw a post made by the Nigerian What now?
investigative Journalist, David Hundeyin on
his X page. He says: As former Kenyan president, Uhuru
Kenyatta, said at the recent East Africa
In any case, I know the real reason behind Regional Global Health Security Summit, “I
all these lamentations is not because of any saw some people the other day crying that
HIV patients. HIV patients that nobody cared Trump has removed funding, he is not giving
about last week? us any more money. Why are you crying?
It is not your government; it is not your
The real reason is that the aid funding freeze country. You don’t pay taxes in America.
has devastated the African NGO industrial This is a wake-up call for you to say, ‘okay
complex and its multiple 2021 Hyundai what are we going to do to help ourselves?’
Elantra-driving “conveners” and “program Nobody is going to continue holding out a
managers” dotting the streets of Garki, hand there to give you. It is time for us to use
Kilimani, and Kololo. our resources for the right things.”
There are people in Abuja and Nairobi who It is way past time for us to get our African
have suddenly found themselves unable house in order and get down to doing what
to pay their rent and kids’ school fees we should have been doing for the past sixty
this January because all US foreign aid years. A fool at sixty is no longer a fool but a
disbursement has been frozen. They’re broke shameless fool.
from Christmas, and the January tranche
of funds was sorely needed for lifestyle
expenses.
That’s what all this is really about. Not any
f**** HIV patient.
Now, do you see the similarity in both
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