ERIK PRINCE: 'U.S. SHOULD COLONISE AFRICA'... AGAIN? 🤡

Imperialists' audacity can amount to clownery. But their intentions have dangerous consequences.

For example, private US-based mercenary firm Blackwater killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 in what came to be known as the Nisour Square massacre.

Erik Prince, the speaker in this video, is Blackwater's founder, who once served as CEO and later as chairman. Some might see him as an extension of US foreign policy. Blackwater has won billion-dollar US-government security contracts to patrol throughout West Asia. He now thinks 'underdeveloped' Africans need the US to help govern the continent.

Africa certainly has leadership issues, but hasn't Africa had genuine leaders who worked for the good of their people? And what became of them? France, a NATO member, assassinated Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara. The US, UK and Belgium killed the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Patrice Lumumba. The US-backed South African apartheid government allegedly took out Mozambique's Samora Machel. The CIA ousted Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, as well as Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In every case, the West's fingerprints are on the crime scene. Why are these facts glaringly absent from Prince's rationale?

In many ways, the US already colonises Africa. Most African countries' economies are at the mercy of the International Monetary Fund's loan terms. These countries are reeling in debt on Washington's conditions. The impacts can range from cuts to healthcare and subsidies, labour market deregulation, and privatisation of state assets and services. Plus, while numbers are not easy to pin down, of Africa's 54 countries, 15 reportedly host 29 AFRICOM military bases. And 53 African states have varying military partnerships with the United States.

The point is, has Africa ever been free? Let us know what you think of this clownery.