‘EFFIGY’ LEADERS PUSH THROUGH IMF REFORMS!

Africa has leaders that are frontmen for powerful Western financial institutions and corporations. And it’s their unpopular policies that are pushed through, causing protests.

That’s the assessment of Shahid Bolsen, creator of social media channel Middle Nation. He likens recent demonstrations against IMF-backed tax hikes in Kenya, to ones seen in Sudan during the Omar Bashir reign and also Egypt.

President Ruto, he says, is just the fall guy who takes the blame for destructive reforms. Even when he’s gone, the source of the policies, the international private sector, will remain and the dysfunctional cycle will likely continue with another puppet leader.
It’s a bleak critic of what’s happening.