“Protecting Foreign Investment” – The New Mask for Selling Out?
I read a comment recently that made me chuckle not out of joy, but deep disappointment.
An African proudly saying:
“We must protect foreign investment at all costs.”
Really? That’s your battle cry?
Not “We must protect the dignity of our people”?
Not “We must build institutions that serve Africans first”?
Not “We must reclaim control over our own resources”?
But “foreign investment” the same system that extracts our wealth, pollutes our environment, displaces our people, and gives back crumbs wrapped as aid?
This is the twisted logic of a class of Africans who have become gatekeepers for foreign interests. They dress it up as professionalism. They call it diplomacy. But deep down, it’s about self-preservation.
Comfort. Position. Access.
They’d rather be the only ones who’ve “made it” in their villages than fight for systems where every child can thrive. They don’t want equity. They want exclusivity. They don’t want justice. They want peace the kind that keeps them comfortable while others suffer silently.
So when they say:
“I’m here to protect foreign investment.”
I’m actually grateful.
Because at least they’re not pretending to fight for justice or Pan-African progress.
They’ve shown their cards. And history will remember them not as leaders, but as loyal servants of a broken system.
Africans, be wise.
Anyone who fights harder to defend outsiders than uplift their own people is not a patriot. They are a pawn.
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