@spearhead_af: Thabo Mbeki On Who Is Blocking Africans From Working Together While addressing an audience at an event marking the 2026 Africa Liberation Day on 25 May 2026, former South African president Thabo Mbeki shared an anecdote that answers the question often asked by ignorant Africans or disingenuous outside interests: "Is it colonisers that made you not build infrastructure 60+ years after independence?" The answer, it turns out, is "Yes." Knowing and acknowledging this reality does not remove responsibility for the material improvement of Africa from Africans. What it does is reframe the discourse away from nonexistent or surface solutions towards the deeper political solution to Africa's development challenges - full sovereignty and continental economic and political unity. #ThaboMbeki #AfricanUnity #PanAfricanism #AfricanDevelopment #AfricanHistory #Decolonization #EconomicSovereignty #AfricanSovereignty #AfricanRenaissance