May aid-reliant African leaders, planners, be set free this Easter

Trump’s January 20th Executive Order should also have sparked enough mental activity to start melting the ice coating the brain of African economists who rely on foreign money lenders to think for them.

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How wonderful to be alive today! This year’s Easter could symbolise the most realistic Resurrection for Africa since colonialists came to the land they called the Dark continent and demonised all things cherished by the natives, many of whom started hating themselves and wishing they were Europeans.

The 90-day suspension of foreign aid by the new US administration was announced on January 20, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting US foreign assistance programmes.