Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) during the 2023 believes that Africa has a dignity crisis at the top.
Sowore aired his opinion on Thursday morning via a post he shared on his official X account following the visit of some African leaders to Donald Trump, the United States President.
“What we witnessed with Donald Trump and African leaders was modern day public humiliation,” lamented Sowore.
“The U.S. President openly tore into African leaders in full view of the world, first with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and now with a second set brought for public humiliation at the US White House.
“And what was their response? Silence. Submission. Smiles. Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia sat there muttering “Yes Sir” while being stripped of his dignity. Asked where he learnt to speak English language so well.
“Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the new President of Senegal, someone touted as young, bold, supposedly a symbol of change, was reduced to begging for a golf course, not schools, hospitals, or industrial investments.”
Sowore lamented that this is not leadership, but the continuation of the famed Mandika slave “Kunta Kinte” chains and public flogging, asked to accept a slave name, except now that these ‘bozos’ visiting Trump are in suits, at press briefings, in diplomatic rooms, they don’t have the spirit of Kunta Kinte, who refused to accept an English name despite torture and public infliction of pain.
As such, the human rights activist and publisher of news website, Sahara Reporters said in conclusion: “Africa has a dignity crisis at the top.”
