Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Journalists and commentators have lamented why the continent is not \u201cstanding with Ukraine\u201d and warned that the war threatens to \u201cdivide Africa\u201d. The focus of these articles is understandable given the efforts of Western states to build a global consensus against Putin.<\/p>\nYet many of them misdiagnose the causes of African ambivalence, and so offer flawed \u2013 and in some cases deeply problematic \u2013 recommendations for how to build stronger pro-Ukraine solidarity.<\/p>\n
An article published in the Spectator magazine on 16 April entitled \u201cRussia\u2019s Special Relationship\u201d is a case in point. In the piece, Aidan Hartley, an author and entrepreneur best known for writing the Zanzibar Chest, seeks to explain \u201cWhy so many Africans are supporting Putin\u201d.<\/p>\n
But while Hartley is right to point out that condemnation of Russia\u2019s actions has often been more muted outside of the \u201cWest\u201d, his analysis is wide off the mark when it comes to what African governments have done, and why they have done it.<\/p>\n
Worse still, the article\u2019s reductive framing and hectoring tone are only likely to annoy and frustrate readers who are knowledgeable about the continent \u2013 and so undermine support for the causes that Hartley rightly cares about.<\/p>\n
Hartley should be commended for trying to historicise the events his piece sets out to explain \u2013 something that has been all too rare in recent coverage.<\/p>\n
The problem is that he gives us a reading of the past that is remarkably myopic for someone who grew up on the continent and wrote a memoir that has been described as a \u201cmasterpiece of autobiographical journalism\u201d.<\/p>\n
One of Hartley\u2019s main arguments is that limited African support for Ukraine can be traced back to the fact that \u201cBritain helped African countries become leftist regimes\u201d.<\/p>\n
These regimes apparently went on to bite the hand that fed them precisely because they were socialist, and so favoured the Soviet Union\/Russia over the USA and the UK. Anyone who knows anything about Africa will be puzzled by this take, mainly because it is plainly wrong.<\/p>\n
In some cases, Western states and financial institutions provided assistance to states led by African socialists, but they did not seek to create leftist governments, nor to sustain them.<\/p>\n
Instead, European and North American powers typically colluded with right-wing leaders in the silencing \u2013 and in some cases assassination \u2013 of left-wing voices.<\/p>\n
This intensified during the height of the Cold War when the UK and USA supported a set of venal and abusive dictators on the basis that they were essential allies in the struggle to prevent the spread of socialism on the continent.<\/p>\n
Most famously, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to back sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa because the African National Congress was \u201ca typical terrorist organisation\u201d while the white minority government was viewed as a \u201cbulwark against Soviet-backed communism\u201d. This interpretation of African history isn\u2019t simply the view of a small group of left-wing radicals.<\/p>\n
It is clear from the public statements of figures like Thatcher, declassified CIA documents, and an official enquiry of the Belgian parliament which found that the country bore a \u201cmoral responsibility\u201d for the assassination of the \u201cpro-communist\u201d first Prime Minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba.<\/p>\n
Indeed, it is precisely the West\u2019s willingness to sacrifice democracy and human rights on the altar of national security that helps to explain why many African states do not want to get sucked into the current confrontation.<\/p>\n
History has taught them that becoming pawns in an international conflict they cannot control generates few benefits and massive risks. As Muthoni Wanyeki recently observed, the idea of being \u201cnon-aligned\u201d is not new, unprincipled, or limited to African states.<\/p>\n
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of states seeking to avoid being tied to any particular power bloc formed in 1961 and consistently had well over 100 countries as members.<\/p>\n
Moreover today, as in the past, \u201cnonalignment may be a sensible strategy for individual countries as a way to preserve autonomy and avoid costly choices between major powers.<\/p>\n
\u201d Hartley\u2019s depiction of the preferences of African governments is also misleading. The majority of African leaders and people stand against imperialism and war and have no love of Putin.<\/p>\n
Only 17 African governments \u2013 less than half \u2013 abstained in the vote UN General Assembly vote condemning Russia\u2019s actions. Only one \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 voted against it, despite the fact that Russia provides aid and military support to a number of states.<\/p>\n
In other words, a majority actually supported the West\u2019s position, while others sought to sit on the fence rather than actively support Putin. The same balance probably holds when it comes to public opinion in many countries, though we lack the survey data to know for sure.<\/p>\n
Many of my friends on the continent are suspicious of Western efforts to enforce a common front, not least because of the reports of racism in Ukraine and growing evidence that aid is being diverted away from equally urgent humanitarian causes in Africa. But this does not mean they support Putin, or that they are keen to see growing Russian influence in their own countries.<\/p>\n
Against this backdrop, simplistic arguments that are highly critical of African governments without attempting to view recent events from their perspective risk polarising the debate in a way that will only alienate potential allies, the vast majority of whom hold pro-democratic and anti-war attitudes.<\/p>\n
Hartley\u2019s article is a good example of how bad analysis and lazy journalism can play into Putin\u2019s hands. By homogenising the continent and misrepresenting its history, his essay will only deepen suspicions that the West neither understands nor really cares about Africa.<\/p>\n
This is especially true given that much of his invective appears to be motivated by the fact that \u201cmy family\u2019s farms were expropriated without compensation in Tanzania.<\/p>\n
\u201d A personal grievance should never be allowed to stand in for evidence and analysis, precisely because this leads to bad advice.<\/p>\n
In Hartley\u2019s case, he concludes by suggesting that African states \u2013 which have suffered some of the greatest injustices in global history \u2013 should be grateful to the West, and punished if they fail to comply with Western prescriptions: \u201cif they don\u2019t like what we represent and fail to see the value of western trade, investment and security \u2013 then they shouldn\u2019t expect to share in its profits.
\nThe idea that one of the world\u2019s most economically exploited regions has had anywhere near its fair share of world trade, investment and security, or that should be seen as a stick with which African governments can be hit to force them back into line, is equal parts perplexing and offensive.<\/p>\n
It is also precisely the kind of blinkered and colonial attitude that fuels support for those who are seen to \u201cstand up\u201d to Western political domination. As ever, efforts to build and strengthen solidarity must begin with respect, humility, and mutual understanding.<\/p>\n
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