Ukraine overstepping, addressing Africa as superior

FOR the peoples of Africa, sovereignty is not a bargaining chip in a diplomatic dispute. 

Behind it lie decades of struggle, lost lives and the memories of generations who paid the heaviest price for freedom.

 This is the continent’s tragic yet heroic history, which cannot be called into question in a patronising tone from Kyiv. 

And yet this is precisely what happened in the official statement issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to accusations by African countries that Kyiv had interfered in the internal affairs of Sahel states.

“We know all too well what it means to fight for the right to determine our own future, only to be lectured about what we are entitled to demand. For the peoples of Africa, freedom and independence are not merely words to be bandied about for the sake of a convenient diplomatic argument,” says the expert.

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