 IMF, Walbank, and other institutions make African countries jump through hoops. The loans will never be able to pay. The U.S. when they borrow money, they are getting it in 1.5-1.9 interest rates. Africans when they get the same amount of money they're paying 9-10 percent. People who don't need to break, they are getting a break. For the ones who need a break they don't get a break. This sheer survival of the Walbank IMF is based on the fact that African countries and many other developing countries do not succeed. Their success is based on our failure. You know what, I don't even know what to do right now because I can't believe that I'm here with you. I mean I've been a big fan since China days and seeing you for the first time like even more beautiful in your life. It's also wonderful that it's for you. Oh my goodness. That's my name. I know, I can't believe this. I just can't believe this. You know, when I received the call and it's Dr. Akana saying, what am I? I'm like, she knows me. You watch my videos? Of course, I watch all your videos. The one you did on Zimbabwe, I think as soon as you released it, so many people send it to me. Really? You did a great job. Thank you. This is not what I expected for Dr. Akana to actually invite me to her house. This is your home sign. See, now I have a new model to say. This is your home sign. Next time you come to an island, you stay here. Where is this place? This place is the headquarters for Africa Diaspora Development Institute and we are calling it Africa House Zimbabwe. Finally, we have a headquarters. We have a headquarters. Where was the baby born? The baby was born in, believe it or not, Tennessee in the United States. That's when all the ideas started and came together. You know how I got to know you? Today, France is taking out of Africa, Francophone Africa, over $500 billion. Over $500 billion. We, the Africans, the poor countries, we are giving France over $500 billion a year, year in, year out and no one is talking about it. The first speech that eliminated your contract as the Azure Ambassador to America. No, actually the termination came like six months later. I had been expecting it and I was aware of some phone call that had been made. So I was just waiting for that phone call to say, okay, your days are numbered. Yeah, I remember. It took them six months to do that. But you were speaking for your people. I was only speaking the truth. That's why my questions was very clear and I would continue to speak the truth. It's just that our people don't like the truth, I guess. I think our people want the truth. It's the powers that be that don't like the truth. Our people are looking at what are the powers that you're talking about. You've always been talking about the problem of the continent, but I'm here today. I really want to ask you. Now you're living in Zambago. What is the problem of Africa? Who said that is the deep question? Yes, it is. It's also a very simple one. But the same time. I like to take it back to when we were getting our independence. The issue of Africa really goes back to, of course, colonization was a serious problem. But at independence, we were given what I call think independence, where economic liberation was never given to us. The multinationals that were in Africa during colonization, they never left. They're still here. They're still doing their duty work. They're siphoning billions of dollars out of Africa. For example, 75% of the minerals traded at the London Stock Exchange are from Africa. 75% are not owned by us. This has been going on since colonization, even before colonization. So the robbing and raping of Africa never stopped with independence. These leaders were given fake independence. Why is it that we get coffee and tea from Switzerland? Have you seen the large coffee fields in Switzerland? Good portion of that is coming from our beloved continent. Why are these countries allowed to get away with re-labeling African products as their own? Don't control your own financial system. So how independent are you? So to really summarize Africa's issues, it goes back to independence and the fact that we are still yet to attain economic liberation. Allow me to classify the issues, the reasons why this tree of life that is Africa is ailing. And I'm going to divide the issues between the two. Problems that are causing this tree to ale, but problems above the root, above the ground. And issues that are making this tree ale that are below the ground. Issues of the root. Quite often we are focusing on the issues above the root. Issues above the ground. Issues like the leaves and the flowers and the fruits and the branches that are falling off one season after another. Those issues like leadership, issues like corruption, issues like poor access to healthcare, poor education, poor infrastructure. Those are all issues above the ground. They come and they go. We change leaders every day in Africa. But tell me one African country that changed a leader and things changed. We might see some improvement but fundamentally. Former French colonies are even in a worst shape in the sense that for the continuation of colonization which I spoke on, it continues to make the African countries, those 14 African countries, deposit their bank reserves with France to this day. The only difference is it started at 85 percent and now it's down to about 55, 65. But they are still depositing their bank reserves. And if they wish to borrow some of that money, they've been depositing for years. We might put in an application as a loan and they can only access 20 percent of what they deposited the previous year as a loan at commercial interest rates. I want to underscore that. They can only borrow their own money upon approval of an application after submitting their country financials. If approved, they can only access 20 percent of the previous year's deposit as a loan at commercial interest rates. That is our reality. It gets better. They were also told that if you need any military equipment, you can only purchase it from France. Military can only be trained by France. That France will have military presence in your own country and can invade you without notice should they fail, French interests are being violated. Language of instruction shall be French. All your minerals discovered yet to be discovered, France has the first right of refusal. All the contracts, big contracts, private and public French companies have the first right of refusal. I am my brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. If you were to go home and run for president and your first day in office, your chief of staff comes to you and says, before you start, I must read you the dos and dons as stipulated by the pact for the continuation of colonization. And your chief of staff reads this to you. What power do you have? Forget printing money. When you have to borrow your own money, how much power do you have? Because if printing money, you also have to pay for printing your own money for you. They are printing money for them. All the money is printed in France. It gets worse, so you give up your financial control. Your military equipment, training has to be done in France. Your natural resources yet to be discovered, French companies have the first right of refusal. So you have given up your natural resources, you have given up your military control, you have given up your financial control and you still call that person a leader. What are they leading? We have stripped them of anything that they can do to be a true leader. That's why I say it's a fake independence. Until we as the people, as Africans, understand the root causes of why Africa is where it is today, it's going to be very difficult for us to come up with a plan that can get us out of the situation that we are in. Do African leaders know this problem? Oh, yes, they do. But like I said, they are fighting with their hands tight and because they are fighting in small little countries and this is where we are being defeated as well. Then they followed it with colonization, a systematic way of saying now that we have made the African believe that everything African was bad and everything European was better, let's take it to the next level. So it is that they met in Berlin and decided to chop up our country, our continent rather. So it is they met in Berlin, Germany at the invitation of the then chancellor of Germany, Bismach. Specifically to come up with a strategy that once again would see to it that Africa and her children are forever defeated and dominated. They spent four months, four cold months in Berlin, Germany from November of 1884 to February of 1885 and by the time they were done our Africa had been chopped up into the tiny little countries that we see today. Countries that were intentionally divided in such a way that individually they will never survive. That individually they are easy to exploit. The whole purpose was to see to it that they can continue to exploit the rich natural resources that we were endowed with in our beloved continent. Push back against China. I was told we were going to push back against European nations. Are you with me? That is the biggest problem. So which means that we need to unite as a... Yeah, no question about it. That's what Kwame Krumah was talking about. That's what the Casablanca group was all about. We cannot survive without unity. End of story. So really of the pillars of development of the pillars of Africa's development and Africa's unity which you talk about we need our own financial system our own single currency central bank, monetary fund, stock exchange African. We need our own military. We need our own... now we managed with trade. That's the only one we've managed to really begin to show and have a semblance of some unity through the AFCFTA. I think it's just a building. It's a building and its implementation is going to be a challenge. Even now as we speak you had problems coming here. Why should you have problems traveling throughout Africa? If we now have the free trade area why are we now not just traveling freely that free movement of people it's spoken about but it needs to be actualized? Why do Africans still need visas to travel in Africa? For me I just want to say this I don't know if you will agree with me I think the Pan-African spread that was used to establish the African Union is that. You agree with me? We often say if the Casablanca group had one in 1963 Africa would be in a different place. Seven people. That's why they lost. So the Monrovia group they were the majority they said oh let's go slow on this Pan-African thing on this African unity. Let's go slow and then after we started going slow we've been going slow ever since. If we were to go back to the ideas of the Casablanca group Africa would have been in a very much better place by now. When you hear the name Africa what comes into your mind? Poverty. Disease. I know better but I know that's what people think. What comes into your mind? In my mind I see an amazing continent the richest continent on earth a continent full of vibrant young minds a continent that if only we could unite we can rule the world. That's the Africa I see. I know the Africa that people out there see. What is the Africa that they see? The Africa out there it's a disease then they're incontinent at war constantly at war with itself hunger, instavation and disease which is far from the truth which is far from the truth. Look at Zimbabwe. It's listed as one of the top 10 West places to live top 10 West places to invest and yet the truth is the exact opposite. To have a borderless Africa? Absolutely. To allow Africans to start investing from different African countries because I went to Nigeria and I saw a Gambian man building an estate I mean it's one of the biggest estates in Nigeria it was invested by a Gambian but in Africa when we talk about investment we say a white man needs to come and invest we don't see another African but we are programmed to feel that it's only going to happen if a white man says so. What do you think a borderless Africa will do to Africans? Oh my God, Africa will take off like wildfire just the free movement of people they came to Cairo highway to think that a woman can get up in the morning with a produce and by mid morning she's in Kinshasa and by the following day she's in Cairo and then she can take an overnight bullet train back to Cape Town that's the Africa I'm talking about you talk about commerce this continent is quite an amazing continent you would think that it's Africa and we are similar no, there are products in Zimbabwe that people in Zambia want there are products in Zimbabwe or Southern Africa that people in West Africa want it's amazing how intra-Africa trade alone we don't need outsiders intra-Africa trade alone would change Africa overnight the reason why these readers they must sit down and try to encourage each other I don't know what's happening with these readers what is it? can you give me a clue what's happening I don't even know myself what do they really discuss do they discuss about Africa as Africans or what I don't know they discuss about I've got this shift what do they really discuss Dr. Rikana used to be an ambassador for the EU and I believe that you have contact of almost every African leader right now I want to know what do they discuss when they have meetings together I mean, are they discussing about Africa or they just discussing about how much money they're going to make because I don't get it I say this sincerely I don't know of any African leader who is in need of money they're beyond that they're beyond that and I'm telling you the truth if they are maybe a few but the majority of them they're beyond that they really just want to see Africa move forward you take for example this country where we are you have opposition that goes to Washington two, three times a year to push for sanctions to continue you look at that situation and say do they understand the machinery that puts sanctions together it's a deep web of a machinery that even if say opposition wants to win the next election it's going to take the entire five years to undo the effects and to undo the system that was put in place for sanctions so that means even new opposition you're going to still suffer from the sanctions so it's that lack of understanding of what really matters at the end of the day that is of consent to me so to answer your question about African leadership it's my general feeling that the average African leader wants to do the right thing but they are not doing the right thing they are doing the best they can and have very difficult conditions remember what I said the average African country is spending a third to 40% sum up to 60% of their GDP on loan repayment that alone sala it's like saying you take 60% of my lunch and then you wonder why I can't gain weight I need my entire lunch every day but if you're going to be taking 60% of my lunch then you don't even want to talk about my 60% that you have taken you only want to talk what I cannot do with the remaining 30 or 40% that's what's happening to Africa when you look at countries that have to pay such huge amounts of loans given high interest rates that are not justified a lot of the African countries many have never defaulted on their loan repayment to all these institutions and yet the rating agencies they rate them very poorly so they get in order to justify giving them high interest rates countries like Greece that completely collapsed they get better interest rates than a lot of African countries that have never been in that situation the international finance system must be analyzed and we're asking those involved to give Africans a break and that we must treat Africa fairly we must demand that and so the unfairness of the world is of concern and I think as Africans I'm trying to avoid calling myself black because I'm not black we must understand what is really going on so because before I start trying to defend myself as to why I can't function with 35-40% I need to first of all expose you for stealing from me that's not happening or let's not talk about that easy let's just concentrate on why you can't feed your children but let's not talk about me stealing from you and now like I was telling you the stealing the stealing has been going on for so long now they don't even bullets anymore they're not even stealing from us anymore we bring it to them we've been so programmed and beaten down I want us to understand our Africa from that depth where we realize we are being controlled and if I can take you to why I no longer want to call myself black because I'm not black because the issue of blackness was introduced in order to introduce white supremacy white people from Europe they were not white before they came to Africa we were not black before they came to Africa but they came to Africa and found an amazing continent with some of the most beautiful indestructible people but more importantly the realization that the black gene, the African gene is the only dominant gene genetics 101 we cannot be destroyed and African mates with any person from anywhere on earth the child is black because the African gene is indestructible it is the only dominant gene the rest of the genes around the world they are recessive and they can be destroyed so realizing that they could destroy us in so many other ways but that's the one thing they could do nothing about it because that's God given it is what it is whether you like it or not so they tried to figure out how then can we destroy these people because here there's nothing we can do so they said let's make them believe that we are much better than them so they introduced white supremacy using color if you think about it we went to school they taught us about the different colors green, yellow, orange, blue, whatever you black and white but they chose only two colors to give attributes to their attributes to the white color beautiful, pure, desirable black, undesirable you know the rest and then they said let's go to church then when we went to church they taught us about heaven and hell and they said heaven they are angels, they are white and oh by the way we are also white we don't look white we are kind of pinkish variations of pink but never mind that we are white like the angels and oh there's a place called hell there's this monster that eats people and does all the horrible things and by the way that monster is black like you think about it do you know how long ago this lie has been told they are not white we are not black but it was used so every time we go to church we are worshiping the angels we are worshiping them subconsciously and every time we denounce the devil we denouncing ourselves because we look like the devil we are on automatic pilot of sheer stupidity I was talking to a friend there that I said I don't know about you jumped in on her so where is your heaven I said my heaven is on the left side and angels over there I have my own idea of heaven and I have my own my hell is on the right side she says oh mine is the opposite my heaven is where is your heaven I guess my heaven is in the center in the center the most stupid thing that's our program you have how do your angels look like now white's in color describe your devil to me black that's what I'm trying to say so I'm the devil myself then there you go when are we going to break the cycle of the lies the subliminal messaging is what is propelled and propagated white supremacy and it was a simple concept the angels are white white people are white when they are not white that's a lie the devil is black and you Africans are black I refuse to be called black because I'm not and we get to put an end to the subliminal messages when we can begin to call ourselves Africans that's it I've been telling so many Africans that you are an African we can't we don't believe in ourselves that we can do so many things we emphasize on black oh we black people what about we Africans the mothers and fathers of humanity the origin of civilization the ones who taught the world what it means to be human that's we the Africans why can't we emphasize on that we don't because we're programmed to visualize ourselves we are on a path of self-destruction how do we get you young people to wake up because we are in a trance a trance of sheer stupidity some of the things that we do as Africans, as people of color things that we could do to help ourselves we do not do we are in a trance, we've been put to sleep what is it going to take for us to realize that we are asleep and we need to wake up what hate in Africa it's big that's where we began the self-hate the mistrust of each other the lack of appreciation an idea that is coming from your brother an idea that is coming from your sister because we are taught to dislike anything to do with us and that is the biggest enemy right now a colonized African mind is the west thing African have I mean if you have a message to Africans in terms of self-hate what would that message be I would say wake up Africans understand yourself understand your victim of white supremacy that you are the origin of humanity and without you the rest of the world wouldn't be without Africa without Africa the world cannot function the world needs Africa Africa does not need the world and that's a fact and they know it there is nothing that we need that we cannot find in Africa there is not a single strategic planning session by the western world and the eastern world that doesn't start with Africa because everybody is looking to Africa for their needs that's why we have the Africa China relationship so we have the Africa Europe relationship because they cannot do with Africa but we realize the pivotal role we play in the geopolitics of but we've been programmed in a way that we don't think we can make it in Africa we don't think we're good enough we don't think we're capable of taking care of ourselves are you happy with the world the way it is today are you happy living this world the way it is for your children I hope the answer is no 20 years from now your children and grandchildren are going to ask you grandfather, grandmother there were issues with our beloved continent Africa there were problems with the race our race as black people what did you do grandmother what did you do grandpa for you to be able to answer that question that journey begins now my hope is 20 years from now you can say granddaughter, grandson sit down these were the issues in our beloved Africa these were the issues with black people together with my brothers and sisters we came together we pulled our financial resources together and this is what we did while the mission is not yet accomplished this is where we left off and this is where you together with your brothers and sisters need to come together and pick up where we left off