“Mutants With No Love”: Why Africa Keeps Losing to Its Enemies -- “The true/ most dangerous and ''ONLY'' enemy of Black people And Afrika is the Black person who has no love.” — Anonymous Elder, West Africa.

 

“Mutants With No Love”: Why Africa Keeps Losing to Its Enemies

“The true enemy of the African is the African who has no love.”
— Anonymous Elder, West Africa

 

In any environment—political, economic, or social—you can count on this: rivals will come. Whether known or unknown, documented or hidden, they’ll infiltrate by hook or crook. And they’ll win—again and again—if your people are weak, cosmetic, existing only in empty slogans and lip service.

This is why many Black leaders, past and present, continue to wrestle with a deep betrayal: Why are some Black people so willing to act as agents of our historical enemies? Whether on the continent or in the diaspora, some of us eagerly help derail the future of Africa and Black progress globally.

Let’s not be naïve. This is not a new story. Napoleon Bonaparte, during the Haitian Revolution (then called Saint-Domingue), reportedly confessed:

“My decision to destroy the authority of the Blacks in Saint-Domingue is not so much based on commerce, as on the need to block the advance of Blacks in the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (as quoted in The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James)

The enemy never sleeps. But here’s the catch: they don’t have to work that hard when some of us do the job for them.

Betrayal in Broad Daylight: Modern Examples

Remember when an American AFRICOM General accused Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traoré of hoarding a secret gold reserve for personal gain? The claim was baseless—a blatant lie meant to delegitimize a young African leader standing against neocolonial control.

Or take Barack Obama, a man many hoped would bring change and justice to U.S. foreign policy. Yet, he oversaw the destruction of Libya and the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, one of Africa’s boldest Pan-African voices. As former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney noted:

“The first Black president of the United States was used to execute an assassination on an African leader and destroy an African nation.”

This wasn’t accidental. No white president could have pulled off such an act of imperial violence without global outcry. But using a Black face to front white agendas? That’s the magic trick that keeps the empire alive.

Even Hilary Clinton, on record, cackled:

“We came, we saw, he died.”

That’s how the West thinks of African leadership—a joke, a target, a market.

Black Betrayers in Dashikis

We have no shortage of Black folk dressed in kente cloth, dashing around with Pan-African slogans and symbols. They know their Kemet, their “Mu” and “Shu,” and quote Garvey and Fanon till sunrise. But many of these same people:

• Work as mouthpieces for racist corporations,

• Sabotage African leadership from inside,

• Undermine Pan-African unity while smiling in selfies with Malcolm X posters.

This contradiction isn’t random—it’s a spiritual and psychological crisis. And at its root is one missing ingredient: Love.

The Love Deficit

“My people are scared to love because they are too busy trying to survive.”
— Fela Kuti

You want to know why betrayal runs rampant? Because we failed to drill love into ourselves and our children. Not romantic love. Not vanity. Revolutionary love—the kind that makes betrayal impossible.

Love of self.
Love of race.
Love of the mirror.
Love of the people.

Without that, you get what we have: a generation of spiritual mutants, soulless mercenaries in African skin, queuing up to sell out their people for less than a cheeseburger.

Yes—mutants with no love.

This is not about hate for others. It’s about love for self. Until we fix this core deficiency, Africa will remain a marketplace for puppets, not a fortress for freedom.

What Must Be Done?

1. Teach Revolutionary Love: From childhood, embed the idea that we are our brother’s keeper. That betrayal is not an option.

2. Name and Shame the Traitors: Cultural accountability must return. We must stop protecting the smiling enemies within.

3. Cut the Cosmetic Blackness: Dashikis and hashtags mean nothing without loyalty and love.

4. Pan-Africanism With Teeth: Not conferences and slogans, but a real defense against economic sabotage, political infiltration, and military coups.

5. Support Authentic Leaders: From Traoré to Sankara’s legacy, we must protect our own when they rise.

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“Only love can defeat the forces of hate. But it must be a fierce love, one that is ready to fight.”
— Assata Shakur

Until we love each other deeply, radically, and without compromise, we will remain easy prey—outwitted not by superior enemies, but by the mutants among us who have forgotten what it means to be Black, to be African, and to be human.

[Olofin / AI ]