OPINION| Africa’s leaders pursue fossil fuels, ignore the interests of people and the climate crisis - The people know that the neocolonial model of extraction and exploitation will deepen their hardships
, perpetuates an extractivist colonial legacy, which sees no potential in the brains and the skills of Africans and only ascribes value to what is buried in our soil. It is and will remain a way of servicing the carbon-intensive lifestyle of rich countries while deepening hardship in African communities.from Global North countries, but we should be furious about the faith that many African leaders are putting in fossil fuels.
Africa can do so much better than using Europe’s sluggish reduction in harmful emissions as an excuse to raise our own. Instead of replicating the mistakes that Europe says it wants to repair through decarbonising its homes and industries, our leaders can advance a carbon-free continent while it’s still growing and being built. Our leaders can focus on the interest of Africa’s people facing theI write this with hope, rather than with naiveté.
The loyalty of African leaders towards their people seems shaky, and the commitment by rich economies to pay for the loss and damages that their economic growth has created for us is questionable. Yet there is hope in organised communities who are resisting in the face of the climate crisis. never sees the light of day. It is such communities that have told Chinese companies in Lamu, Kenya, that their coal project will not happen in their backyard.
They know that it is a neocolonial model of extraction and exploitation that has deepened hardship for many of them. They know that the multibillion-dollar projects are never about them. They know that the neocolonial model of extraction and exploitation is always about growing the profit margin of big multinationals and lining the pockets of elites who have remained in bed with the oppressors.
The resilience that African communities continue to show, in defending their lands, protecting the quality of the air they breathe and the decentralised economic gains that come with protecting the riches that nature has given them, is the hope of Africa in the face of the climate crisis.
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