AFRICA IS NOT CORRUPT WE’RE STILL RULED BY COLONIAL INFLUENCE, NOT OUR OWN SYSTEM

In a powerful new wave of political awakening across Africa, critical voices are rising to challenge the old narrative that blames African leaders alone for the continent’s crisis. The real truth, many argue, runs deeper and begins with colonial control that never truly ended.

Despite the appearance of independence, African countries are still governed by rules, systems, and constitutions designed by their former colonial masters foreign frameworks that never aligned with Africa’s identity, values, or civilization.

“No African leader is truly corrupt by African standards they’re simply playing by the rules handed to them by the West,” says one outspoken Pan-African scholar. “The problem is, we’ve never practiced our own constitution. We’ve been actors in a borrowed system.”

Decades after independence, African political systems still operate under the shadows of European-designed democracies systems that were never meant to empower the people, but to maintain foreign control through elite puppets.

Democracy, as it stands, remains a mystery to many African citizens. It is sold as power for the people, but in practice, it’s a tool of manipulation, distraction, and control.

The real solution, according to many thinkers across the continent, is not just to change leaders but to dismantle the colonial structures still dictating African politics.

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• Africa must rewrite its constitution not copy it.

• Africa must build its own political systems rooted in its history, culture, and vision.

• Africa must finally break free from the influence of the West.

Until then, leaders will continue to take orders from unseen colonial hands, and the people will continue to suffer under a system that was never built for them in the first place.

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“The blame is not just on the leader,” one commentator noted. “It’s on the lingering ghost of colonialism that still shapes every decision, every election, and every law.”

The time has come, they say, for Africa to stop following and start building.