The Benevolent Guardians: A Satire on Western Patronage in Africa
How fortunate we Africans are! Our Western guardians, ever so generous, treat us as perpetual children—sightless and deaf to our own realities. They graciously see for us (for what could we possibly perceive?), hear for us (though we dare claim to listen), and even think for us (democracy, after all, means never troubling our minds with self-determination). Such selfless parenting! The "Gift" of Control: What began as colonial extraction—disguised as a "give-and-take (where taking outweighed giving ) —evolved into a modern creed: "Take what we offer, or face the consequences." Benevolence today wears the face of coercion. Our guardians decree what we buy, who leads us, even whom we love. Their democracy: a velvet-gloved autocracy. The Science of Division: With scholarly fervor, they taught us to fracture ourselves. Race? A"vital" taxonomy: Negroes, Whites, Yellows —as if humanity were paint samples. Ethnici...