“Indeed, African leaders and those non-African members of the Bank must resist the clearly patronising effort of the US, which from all intents and purposes, seeks to castrate a successful and performing African institution and leadership. Their goal is to make African States perpetually dependent on western funding, which often comes with strings attached and are used to undermine our collective development effort as a continent.”

On 11 January 1976 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Gen Murtala Muhammed of Nigeria, addressed his brother Heads of State at an Extraordinary Summit Meeting of the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU, now African Union-AU). His speech challenged US policy in Africa’s liberation struggle, exemplified by a letter written by President Gerald Ford of the US, opposing the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-MPLA-from assuming leadership of post-colonial Angola after its Portuguese colonists had been militarily defeated by the liberation movements in that country. Specifically, Gen Muhammed submitted in a powerful exhortation that “Africa has come of Age.” That position swayed many African States into abandoning support for the US policy that had blacklisted the MPLA, whom they then gave their backing, gifting Agostinho Neto with the goodwill and diplomatic wherewithal he needed to subsequently become the first President of independent Angola. It was an unprecedented defeat for American foreign policy by the African continent.
On May 11 2020, Gaskiya.net had published an analysis calling on sections of the western media as well as humanitarian and development organisations to stop using Africans as icons of misery and misfortune. This was premised on verifiable and published facts showing that these phenomena are not exclusive to the African continent and therefore causes one to wonder why only Africans are used to depict such.We had argued that some sections of the western media choose “to focus on the negative issues on the African continent, continuously driving and sustaining a narrative of a continent at war with itself and unable to transform its socio-economic and political challenges into positive change and sustainable development.”
What we did not stress in that analysis is the fact that when Africa’s leaders choose to change the situation for good, as Murtala Muhammed did in 1976, their efforts are either derided as lacking substance, or described as failures by the organisations mentioned even where they are succeeding. At its extreme, such icons are physically eliminated. This happened to Patrice Lumumba, Murtala Muhammed and Thomas Sankara. Lumumba was killed on January 17 1961 in Lubumbashi (Belgium formally apologised in 2002 for its role in his extra-judicial killing), Muhammed was assassinated on February 13 1976 in an abortive coup in Lagos, while Sankara was brutally assassinated on October 15 1987 in Ouagadougu, Burkina Faso.
A major development in recent time has been the sterling achievements of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the now subterranean extra-continental efforts to undermine its leadership—a move that now refocuses attention on our analysis cited above. For those not aware, the AfDB is a multilateral development finance institution, founded in 1964 and comprising of three entities: the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund. It is headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire and has 81 member-States.
The AfDB has been led by Akinwunmi Adesina since September 1 2015.He has wrought changes that have consistently impacted the African continent positively. He expanded the Bank’s equity to the tune of USD115 billion (from its previous USD 93 billion), launched a USD3 billion social bond in March 2020 to help African countries fight Covid-19 and a USD10 billion crisis-response facility for African nations, to mention just some. Clearly, Akinwunmi Adesina is in some ways, a modern day version of Lumumba, Muhammed and Sankara combined, and clearly falls in the league of those African leaders trying to change the negative narrative on the continent. This is not going down well with some western nations, led by the US, whose Treasury Secretary allegedly condemned the report of the AfDB’s own internal ethics committee headed by Japan, that exonerated its President of allegations of favouritism.
Gaskiya.net argues that this behaviour is consistent with its analysis that suggested a systemic policy by the west, its media and institutions to continually depict Africans as incapable of solving their own problems. Where an African is instigating tremendous change, he or she is undermined and frustrated. The only difference in the Adesina witch-hunt is that Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland are surprisingly joining in this game!

Read the full analysis at www.gaskiya.net

These people continue to treat us with contempt.

Horlayhemy:
“Indeed, African leaders and those non-African members of the Bank must resist the clearly patronising effort of the US, which from all intents and purposes, seeks to castrate a successful and performing African institution and leadership. Their goal is to make African States perpetually dependent on western funding, which often comes with strings attached and are used to undermine our collective development effort as a continent.”

Problem is the Western world despite their level of intelligence, failed to realize Africa can not be slave to them till eternity. We're going to rise.

If Adesina was from SS/SE region.. The story and tones from the SW region would have been different..

You would hear statements like

"Allow him to defend himself"
"SS/SE like defending their sons unlike we in the SW"
"Anyone that has worked with GEJ we aren't supprised"
"Nobody should interfere with US probe"


Now because their son is involved...