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After the accusation against the outside powers, this episode returns the mirror towards the interior of the African continent: predatory elites, annuitant regimes, extractive governance and domestic confiscation of wealth.
Africa cannot explain all its injuries by external predation alone. While colonial history, international power relations, inequitable contracts and financial dependence have weighed heavily on its trajectory, another mechanism has been installed in the very heart of the continent: that of internal predators.
Authoritative leaders, captive administrative elites of rent, clientelist political networks, local intermediaries of major international interests and private managers of public resources sometimes participate in the reproduction of dispossession. They speak the language of sovereignty while emptying the state of its substance.
This episode analyses this central contradiction: how can we build real sovereignty when those who claim to defend it transform institutions, budgets, natural resources and popular aspirations into instruments of enrichment, control and social reproduction?
