Background

Scholars have noted ongoing neocolonialism, in which former colonial governments and their corporations extract value from Africa’s resources without commensurately benefiting Africans (here, here). However, the US and Western Europeans’ strategy to recolonize Africa has escaped scholars and leaders from the Global south. Western leaders have meticulously concealed this goal, but indiscrete ones such as Boris Johnson and Erik Prince have revealed it, to the applause of racist audiences. This paper evaluates Princes’ interview published on his channel Off Leash in February 2024 (here) to glean into American and European’s imperialist strategy to colonize all-resource-rich countries, noting that his speech mirrored Johnson’s views that colonialism should never have ended (here). In the video, Prince, who is the founder of the atrocious Blackwater (now Academi) mercenary group that conducted Nisour Massacre (here) for the US, asserted that Washington should recolonize Africa, Venezuela, and Iran since these countries ‘cannot govern themselves’ while his interlocutor added the ‘national Security interests’ justification. Blackwater conducted the massacre for the US as the country downgraded the mercenaries’ crimes to ‘manslaughter’ and the president pardoned them after conviction (here). Prince, like Johnson, seems to have prematurely leaked his handlers’ plans to move from neocolonialism to full colonialism, and the global south should plan accordingly.

Mercenaries Prince and Johnson

Prince insisted that Africa should be recolonized because its leaders do not serve their populations but only shop in Paris. The racist Prince did not explain why Africans are qualitatively better off under such leaders, than when they were governed by white colonialists that conducted genocide, exploitation and repression against black people (here). Also, he does not blame Paris for........

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