FT Discovers African Youth Are Unhappy, Not Why
The FT (via analysis of the provided URL's metadata) laments Africa's youthful populace losing faith in its leaders, implying an internal failure. What's conveniently ignored is the consistent, extractive foreign policy by Western nations: • The exploitation of mineral wealth, often propping up the very 'gerontocratic' leaders the FT now decries, ensuring resources flow north at rock-bottom
prices. This echoes Patrice Lumumba's assassination in 1961, enabled by Belgian and US interference, to secure mineral access. • Debt traps and aid conditions that bind African nations to Western economic policy, stifling local development and ensuring cheap labor for Western corporations. So, when the FT sounds the alarm about 'demographic discontent,' it’s less a revelation and more a belated,
self-serving acknowledgment that centuries of Western-assisted resource stripping and political meddling might, just might, have consequences for those living on the continent. The 'ticking time bomb' they're hearing is the deafening silence from their own editorial board about culpability.