Mustafa Al-Mu’tasim – Morocco
What You Need to Know
The article examines the controversial perspective that epidemics in Africa, such as AIDS and Ebola, may have been intentionally spread as part of a colonial agenda. It discusses the historical context of colonialism, the rise of neo-Malthusian ideologies, and the implications of population control measures on African nations, raising questions about the ethics of intervention and the true origins.
Africa. The West is not monolithic; there exists a humanistic West that rejects the agendas of neo-colonialism and has often taken to the streets to protest wars, the spread of destructive chaos, discord, and violations of human rights. Its adherents demonstrated against the Vietnam War, the coups in Latin America, the war in Iraq, and the massacres in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo — and they protest today against the genocide in Gaza.
This humanistic West can, to some extent, exert pressure on its own governments, especially during election periods.
Then there is the colonial West, which controls the deep state and relies on security apparatuses and the lobbies of civil and military industries — agricultural, medical, petroleum, media, and financial. These are the forces that decide on war and peace, impose economic sanctions, wage wars, colonize peoples, and plunder their wealth.
This introduction is necessary to make it clear that not all Westerners are the same, and that the real problems of the Global South — including African nations — have always been and remain with this powerful and dominant colonial West.
Africa, the Continent of the Future — But Whose Future?
Is it the future of poor, underdeveloped African states and peoples ruled by corrupt, despotic leaders who have handed their political and economic decisions over to the colonial powers in exchange for remaining in office?
Or is it the future of the colonial powers themselves, which see Africa’s natural treasures — fertile lands, abundant waters, and immense mineral and animal resources — as a reserve they will turn to in the future?
As for Africans, they are often portrayed by the colonial mindset as savages, barbarians, and lazy — like animals unworthy of living in lands overflowing with riches and resources.
The Danger of the New Malthusians and Neo-Darwinians for Africa
Historically, crises of the capitalist system have often coincided with the rise of racist, far-right populist discourse. What is striking today within these right-wing movements — anxious about the future of globalized neoliberal capitalism — is their adoption of neo-Malthusian and neo-Darwinian thinking.
These racist ideologues believe that even if the West manages to win the fierce competition for Africa against major powers like China and Russia, or rising ones like Turkey and Iran, it will face another great challenge: the demographic explosion of this fertile continent. Africa’s population has grown from about 400 million in 1974 to roughly 1.56 billion in 2025.
This population boom will heighten the needs of African peoples and strengthen their desire to benefit from their natural wealth — a direct threat to the ambitions of the new colonialism, which seeks to make Africa the continent of its own future.
Since the late 1970s, capitalist and right-wing circles have debated a question:
Should the West intervene to “save” African peoples in the event of natural disasters, deadly epidemics, wars, and famines?
Or should it “respect the law of nature” — natural selection and the survival of the fittest — as the truly moral and efficient rule?
By the 1990s, they had chosen the second path: abandoning the idea of supporting or helping the peoples of the South, especially Africans, and instead accepting natural selection — the sacrifice of part of humanity (the “barbarians”) so that the rest (the “civilized”) can live decently and secure their own future.
Moral law (helping Africans) must not contradict natural law, that is, it must not interfere with nature’s own selective process.
Moreover, sacrificing a portion of humanity so that others may live well is itself presented as an ethical act. Thus emerged a new interpretation of ethics, ideas, beliefs, and human values tailored to the future interests and needs of colonial powers.
But a crucial question remains: were the spread of diseases and epidemics such as AIDS, Ebola, hepatitis, new tuberculosis strains, and monkeypox across Africa in recent decades natural phenomena — or man-made?
A Colonial Vision Rooted in History
This colonial view of the relationship between Western man and “the Other” is not new.
For five centuries — since the Europeans’ discovery of the Americas — Western colonialism committed massacres and genocides across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. It spread diseases previously unknown to indigenous peoples, such as sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis, and enslaved and forcibly displaced entire populations.
On November 20, 2019, a video appeared featuring American physician Dr. Robert Young, testifying before the International Tribunal for Natural Justice (ITNJ), an independent institution founded in 2015 by artist and former musician Sacha Stone.
In his testimony, Young alleged that Microsoft founder Bill Gates was planning to use sterilization as a means of controlling the world’s population, accusing him of declaring that “three billion people must be eliminated, starting with Africans.” He cited remarks allegedly made by Gates in a 2010 lecture:
“When it comes to sterilization and population control, there are too many people on this planet and we have to get rid of them… So, let’s start in Africa. Let’s conduct our research there and eliminate most of them, because they are unfortunate and worthless. They are not part of the global economies.”
A campaign quickly emerged to discredit Robert Young and suppress the video, yet it resurfaced in 2021 during debates about the Covid-19 vaccines. The video continues to circulate in several African countries.
In 1992, Rolling Stone magazine published an article about the oral polio vaccine (OPV) developed by Dr. Hilary Koprowski and tested in Africa. The article suggested that the vaccine might be the source of the HIV/AIDS virus discovered in the 1980s, due to the use of chimpanzee kidney cells infected with simian immunodeficiency virus to culture the vaccine.
Rolling Stone was accused of promoting conspiracy theories and was sued, leading it to issue an apology. However, in 1999, journalist Edward Hooper reignited the debate in his book The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, claiming that the OPV, produced using infected chimpanzee cells, had triggered the emergence of HIV when Dr. Koprowski vaccinated Congolese children between 1957 and 1960.
Pharmaceutical and vaccine lobbies dismissed these claims, insisting there was no link between the polio vaccine and HIV. Hooper nevertheless stood by his research, alleging a systematic cover-up.
Whether Hooper was right or not remains uncertain. The real issue, the article notes, is that African countries lack the means to conduct independent scientific research to determine the origins of AIDS — a consequence of underdevelopment.
Vaccination, Sterilization, and Africa’s Vulnerability
In 2014, the Canadian anti-abortion and anti-sterilization site LifeSiteNews published a report asserting that the Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association had found a substance causing miscarriages in a tetanus vaccine administered to 2.3 million girls and women by the WHO and UNICEF.
Accusations of sterilization through vaccination were not new — they dated back to 1994, when the WHO launched tetanus vaccination programs in India, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. The Philippines even banned the campaign, citing fears raised by these allegations, which the WHO denied as “completely baseless.”
When the rumor resurfaced in Kenya in 2014, the WHO again declared the vaccine safe. Later, however, critics claimed that the WHO had lied, asserting that young Kenyan women were deliberately injected with tetanus vaccines contaminated with the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which induces infertility.
On May 27, 2016, LifeSiteNews and the Kenyan Catholic Church accused UNICEF and the WHO of having “supervised a mass sterilization campaign” in Kenya under the guise of tetanus immunization. Kenyan doctors reportedly obtained vaccine vials and, after laboratory analysis, found traces of the combined tetanus toxoid/hCG hormone mixture. According to the article, even empty vials collected by WHO officials under police supervision contained the same residues.
Conclusion
According to this narrative, there is no doubt that the World Health Organization (WHO) operates under an agenda aimed at reducing the world’s population — an allegedly “diabolical agenda,” as described in the film Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda, supported by Bill Gates, who advocates population control and is one of the WHO’s largest private donors.
His father, moreover, once chaired a family-planning organization whose contraceptive programs and products tested across Africa, Latin America, and Asia reportedly caused infertility, miscarriages, and uterine cancers in women.
Diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, new tuberculosis strains, monkeypox, viral hepatitis, and Covid-19 may indeed be natural — or they may have originated in biological-weapons laboratories experimenting in the Global South, particularly in Africa.
Either way, the result, concludes the article, aligns with an agenda that seeks to implement the recommendations of the group behind the so-called “Lugano Report.”
Colonialism has a long history of exploitation and violence, particularly in Africa, where European powers inflicted significant harm on indigenous populations. The legacy of this exploitation continues to influence perceptions of Africa and its people, often framing them as inferior or in need of control. This historical context is crucial for understanding contemporary debates about health interventions and population dynamics in the region.
In recent decades, the narrative surrounding Africa has been shaped by both external perceptions and internal challenges, including governance issues and economic dependency.
