Just energy transition a colonial scam

For the optimal and competitive industrialisation of Africa, a comprehensive energy mix is urgently needed.

This, over and above the much-touted renewables minus nuclear and fossil fuel energy prescribed for Africa by the COP 27 as part of the just energy transition.

This agenda emanates from the neocolonisers, bent on keeping Africa an extractive economy, a storehouse of raw materials and an open market for their valueadded and finished products and services.

Who are these neocolonisers? Well, they are members of the ostensible human rights and democratic United Nations, and only they are the permanent five member-states of the UN Security Council: US, UK, France, Russia and now China.

A common thread binds them together, nuclear driven economies with the added mix of all manner of non-green carbon churning fossil fuels. Are they leading by example to denuclearise, decarbonise and deindustrialise?

Of course not, yet they are preaching and forcing this duplicitous nonsense on Africa as they continue to use fossil fuels and the so called dangerous nuclear energy that’s inappropriate for Africa.

Renewable energy is welcome, but it cannot be the dominant and a replacement for the baseload power of nuclear that is urgently imperative for Africa’s industrialisation and weaponisation to leverage as an instrument of balance of power.

Africa and the African Union must by all means navigate to the position of the permanent five member-states of the UN Security Council.

Malusi Mncube

University of Johannesburg