One Africa ✊🏿

They called Africa poor.

Yet they refuse to leave.

That contradiction alone tells the whole story.

For centuries, Africa has been framed through a single, convenient lens: lack.

Lack of wealth.

Lack of power.

Lack of agency.

But history whispers a different truth—one that is becoming louder again.

If a land is truly poor, why has it been so fiercely occupied?

If a continent has nothing, why is it never left alone?

What is labeled poverty is often abundance under control.

What is called aid is frequently access.

And what is described as partnership has too often meant permission to stay.

This moment is not just about one leader or one country.

It is about memory returning.

About dignity speaking again in a voice long suppressed.

About Africans asking a simple question the world struggles to answer honestly.

You cannot exploit emptiness.

You cannot extract from nothing.

And you do not cling to what has no value.

Africa is not poor.