African leaders dying overseas expose cruel deception of independence

HOW many nationalist leaders, who bravely fought European colonialism and avidly preached against so-called Western imperialism, actually took their last breath in African healthcare institutions?

Of all those African revolutionaries — who valiantly led vicious, oftentimes, armed liberation struggles against colonial powers, and in so doing, joined hands with communist nations, such as the Soviet Union, China and Cuba — how many ended up seeking lifesaving medical treatment in those countries they once appeared to despise?

Is it not the height of hypocrisy and extremely ironic, that we continue witnessing African leaders — who, in their peak, never ceased teaching us how evil the West was and how we should shun their lifestyles and beliefs — now lying on their death beds, while benefiting from predominantly Western medical facilities or at least, countries far away from their own continent?

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