Nigerian music star, Burna Boy said Africans should ever applaud Libya former president, Muammar Gaddafi.
In an interview with Guardian, the Afro-fusion singer noted that Africans should be grateful to Gaddafi for his ambitions.
Burna Boy said Gaddafi, during his time, was so committed to starting the “African Monetary Fund in order to counter the power of the Eurocentric International Monetary Fund (IMF).”
According to the self-styled African giant, Gaddafi’s socialist policies in Libya remain the best, and the Libya’s self-proclaimed Brother Leader‘s ideas were truly pan-African.
“Have you seen Libya today?. The evidence [that the situation is no better] is there for the world to see. The only thing is, it does not pay the powers that be to push the truth in your face – it pays to push their agendas,” Burna Boy was quoted as saying.
Countering claims of global exportation of terrorism, the four-decade brutal reign in which dissent was squashed, often violently. Burna Boy queried, “How do you know that?” Because that was the agenda that was pushed, and that was the news that was pushed in your face?”
Continuing his argument, he said; “Africa has the most visibly corrupt leaders. Africa is the way it is today because of its leaders and greed.
“I’m not trying to make justifications for anything, I’m just trying to tell you the reality. And the reality is that Africa has the most visibly corrupt leaders. The reason that Africa is the way it is today is because of the leaders and greed. Who elected those leaders? Was it not the citizens? Is that not a democracy?”
Meanwhile, the music star will on Friday, August 14, 2020, release his fifth anticipated album, Twice As Tall.
