This Isn’t Aid. It’s Extraction. Shut It Down.

By Weaponized Information
April 12, 2025

Western “aid” is the propaganda wing of a global theft operation.

Africa isn’t poor—it’s being looted. And now, the same empires that underdeveloped the continent are back for the lithium, cobalt, and manganese to power their next wave of domination. This time, the pretext is climate. And the promise is “aid.”

But let’s be clear: this is not aid—it’s imperialist extraction wearing a humanitarian mask. The West’s interest in Africa’s so-called “green potential” is not about development or cooperation. It’s about control. It’s about securing the critical minerals buried in African soil to power a retooled imperial economy staggering under crisis.

Aid Is the Soft Edge of Empire

For decades, the imperialist core—led by the United States, the EU, and their financial institutions—has imposed an economic regime on Africa designed to maintain structural dependency. They called it “development.” They called it “assistance.” But it was always domination.

Under structural adjustment and so-called debt relief, African states were forced to privatize mines, cut public investment, and hand over mineral sovereignty to foreign corporations. Those corporations—backed by imperialist governments, enforced by the IMF, and sanitized by the NGO sector—now control the most strategic resources on the continent.

Aid, in this context, is not a solution. It’s a mechanism of consent. A bribe to accept dispossession. A sedative to calm rebellion.

The Green Transition Is a Neocolonial Operation

The green transition as imagined by the West is not about saving the planet. It’s about saving the imperialist world economy from collapse. The U.S. and Europe are scrambling to secure access to new energy inputs—without disrupting the global division of labor that keeps the Global South subordinate.

And that means African minerals—processed abroad, priced abroad, profited abroad—must remain under imperial control.

There is no serious Western initiative to build refining capacity in Africa. No serious effort to support regional industrialization. Just talk of “investment” and “stability,” which in practice means more militarized trade routes, more sweetheart contracts, and more puppet regimes beholden to foreign capital.

This is not a green future. It is the recolonization of the continent through battery supply chains.

This Is Not Mismanagement. It’s War by Other Means.

Every time an African government tries to assert control over its mineral wealth, it is met with financial retaliation, media demonization, or covert destabilization. We’ve seen this before—from Lumumba to Sankara to Gaddafi.

The imperial core doesn’t tolerate disobedience, and certainly not from former colonies sitting on the resources that will decide the next century.

This isn’t about corruption or “bad governance.” It’s about the colonial contradiction: the continued domination of Africa by the same powers that claim to liberate it. Only now the empire uses markets, not armies. It uses contracts, not conquest. But the structure remains the same.

The Line Is Clear: Sovereignty or Subjugation

Africa has two choices: either reclaim its resources—or be used to fuel someone else’s future.

That means:

• Nationalizing the mining and extraction industries.
• Building regional cartels to coordinate pricing and strategy.
• Refusing Western “climate aid” that comes with strings attached to monopoly capital.
• Reorienting trade and industrial policy toward sovereignty—not export dependency.
• Breaking with the financial architecture of neocolonialism—the IMF, World Bank, and WTO.

This is not about being “included” in the green economy. It’s about breaking from a global system built to exclude and exploit.

This Is a Struggle for Power—Not Charity

Africa doesn’t need grants. It needs power.

It needs to lock the gates on the plunderers. It needs to break the cycle of dependence. It needs revolutionary clarity and uncompromising leadership willing to confront imperialism at its root: ownership and control.

The empires of the North are in crisis. Their fossil economies are crumbling. Their debt is unpayable. Their populations are turning against them. And so, as always, they look South—to extract, to stabilize, to save themselves.

It must not happen again.

Africa is not a charity case. It is a battlefield. And the only way forward is to fight for full control over land, labor, and resources.

No more aid. No more apologies. Reclaim the minerals. Reclaim the future.