Press Statement For Immediate release Date : 10th October, 2025
As the Congruence of African Leadership (CoAL) we are urging African countries to be awaken from the Aid illusions, as no thief steals without a plan.
As CoAL,we believe every act of theft is designed carefully, disguised cleverly, and executed confidently—especially when the thief believes the owner is dull, distracted or divided.
For over six decades, Africa has been treated as a continent of dull owners custodians of immense wealth who have been convinced that they are poor. Our leaders have been made to believe that “development aid” is a gift. In reality, it is a sophisticated recycling of Western wealth, a moral disguise for economic theft.
African countries should take note that development aid is not money for Africa—it is money for their economies. The funds are approved in Western parliaments, justified to their taxpayers as benevolence, but in practice, over 80% of that aid returns to them through expatriates, consultants, procurement contracts, and imported goods and services. The rest is often captured by our own elites who have joined in the theft local brokers for foreign interests.
They say they will invest in our raw materials such as copper, cobalt, manganese, oil, and gas, but what they invest in is our ignorance. They take our unprocessed resources, ship them out, and separate the minerals of highest value—gold, platinum, nickel abroad, only to sell them back to us at prices we cannot afford.
And our leaders defend this plunder with polished speeches. They say, “We want to increase so that we can reduce.” They claim that tax breaks for foreign companies will bring jobs and prosperity. Yet we have 60 years of evidence proving otherwise.
According to the OECD, World Bank, and UNCTAD, over $2 trillion in aid has flowed into Africa since the 1960s. But at the same time, Africa loses between $88 billion and $150 billion every year through illicit financial flows like money hidden offshore, profits siphoned through transfer pricing, and tax evasion by multinational corporations.
As CoAL,we note that if aid were truly a path to prosperity, Africa would be the richest continent by now. But our GDP per capita remains below $2,000, while over 430 million Africans live in poverty which we calling structured economic theft, masked as generosity.
Therefore, the Congruence of African Leadership (CoAL) is not here to lament but is committed to awaken and to build a new order of African cooperation anchored in value addition, intra-African trade, smart industrialization and circular economies.
We must end the myth that salvation will come from outside. Africa’s wealth is in its people, its land, its minerals, its innovation, and its faith. The day Africa refuses to export its raw materials without processing them is the day Africa becomes free.
Issued by:
Dr Jedidiah Kunda Ndhlovu, Congruence of African Leadership (CoAL) President Office of the President, Motto: “One Africa, One Vision, One Destiny.”📍 Johannesburg, South Africa📧 info@coalafrica.org | 🌐 www.coalafrica.org