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Ghana’s President Says Western Exploitation of Africa’s Natural Resources is Over
Challenges Swiss President to Her Face
During a recent state visit to Switzerland, the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, announced in no uncertain terms that the 500-year-long era of Africa serving as the step-child and supplier of natural resources for the West is over.
The “natural resources” in question, of course, include just about everything one can imagine — from vast and seemingly inexhaustible oil and gas reserves to mineral deposits (i.e., gold, diamonds, silver, coal, copper, chromium, cellphone-dependent coltan, endless and varied raw agricultural products, etc., etc., ad infinitum) — all of which are and always have been unmatched by any other single continent (or group of continents) on this planet.
But, as stated, for the past five centuries, at least, Europe and “the West” have relentlessly raped, robbed and pillaged every corner of the Motherland, from the Cape to Cairo, from Dakar to Zanzibar (and every space betwixt and between) — at will and without consequences.
