Barely a week after the Kenyan president left the G7 convention in which he pontificated concerning democracy and championed for IMF and the World Bank to avail fair finances for Africans, Mr. Ruto has returned to face widespread protests against his fiscal budget marked by over taxation. As protests intensified, The IMF and World Bank trended on the Twitter X space on 21st June 2024 as Kenyans condemned the colonial institutions, but the president seems interested in continuing dealing with such bodies.

Yesterday’s Slave traders, and Colonizers as today’s “Democrats”

It is customary for western leaders and their allies to present their countries as ‘democracies’ but the extent to which they respect the views and interests of their populace can be questioned, for instance, considering how French and German leaders deplored their populaces after losing the recent European elections (here, here), in how Canadian PM used extreme force to dismantle the Freedom Convoy, and also how the US Joe Biden referred to MAGA (Make America Great Again) republicans as extremists (here). Away from westerner’s undemocratic attitude towards their citizens, the group historically does anything for its financial interests, including slavery, colonialism, invading others, and provoking wars across the world, practices that cannot be democratic. The group recently concluded the G7 meeting between 13th and 15th June 2024, in which participants brandished their supposed democratic ideals and also pushed their twisted views on the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza conflicts. This arrogant group that represents 10% of the global population attempts to rule the entire world, such that the politico article (here) spun a narrative that the G7 is needed to give the........

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