It is truly rich – almost laughable – for a descendant of immigrants, a man whose forebears were part of the same colonising wave that stole, plundered, and crushed whole continents, to stand up today and attack present-day immigrants without even seeing the blinding irony. Donald Trump speaks as though he is the “owner” of America, yet the only rightful owners of that land are the Indigenous peoples – the Native Americans his kith and kin displaced, exploited, and nearly erased.
And before he lectures anyone about “failed nations,” he should remember that Africa’s past and present are burdened by the slavery, colonisation, resource looting, and generational destruction inflicted by people who look exactly like him – people who built their wealth on African bodies and African minerals.
Trump’s latest xenophobic and Afrophobic rant is not strength – it is fear. Fear of a world where Africans and the Global South are rising, reclaiming their dignity, and refusing to be spoken to like subjects of some dying empire.
If immigrants are the problem, then perhaps he and the descendants of colonisers should lead the way as they pack their bags. After all, the true children of that land are the Red Indians – the First Nations – not the loudest voices pretending to defend a country they inherited through violence and dispossession.
Africa will not be intimidated. The Global South will not be shamed. And no racist tantrum from a foolish politician will stop the shift of global power already underway.
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