The Africa Youth Population Boom Worries Bill Gate

E. Ablorh-Odjidja

Ghanadot

September 23, 2018

Bill Gates, in an article “The Africa Youth Boom," published on September 18, 2018, tells The Guardian, UK, that the population boom should be troublesome news for the West. 

And that this population boom is already the cause of instability in Africa.  

Like Bill Gates, sensible Africans have the same unease about population growth too, but for many different reasons. 

Bill Gates, the big philanthropist, of course, has a big voice in the world and a presence in Africa, a continent that is always ready, cap in hand to beg, despite her huge endowments in natural wealth.

But don’t be deceived.  Gates' concern about population growth in Africa has several facets, one of which is his business relationship with China. The other has to be with Trump. 

The Trump concern is writ large in his complaint to The Guardian, “The great blond elephant in the room, President Trump, who has stopped funding family planning organizations that also offer abortion.”  

Trump stopped abortion funding to increase population growth in Africa!  

Truth is, there is no reduction at all in US funding for aid missions in Africa or elsewhere. The fact is a third of US global aid still goes to Africa under Trump.  But what a macabre thought!   

Gates has in mind to stop population growth in Africa by funding abortion.  Worst, he used the subject to grandstand against Trump.

It will now be interesting to learn what Gates is doing in Africa as he lends his big wallet to the forces that seek to control population growth on this continent. 

Gate is funding an experiment on “gene drive” to attack the fertility of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.  

Ostensibly, there ought to be seen in this stance the stark contradiction between Gate’s mosquito "gene drive" funding and his pro-abortion position.  

The malaria drive may sound humane.  But the intent is not a classic case of a population booster. That people will live longer, thus surviving malaria.  And as malaria deaths plummet, health outcomes will improve and population growth in Africa will increase.  Reduction in population gains through abortion will therefore not be of consequence.

However, this is a case of altruism that hides a contradiction.  And that contradiction may prove to be a potentially devastating condition in the end. 

What if the malaria controlled vaccine produces infertility in the human population as a result?  By this result, Bill Gates would have obtained his population control both ways!

But Gates gets more. The other side of the facet is it helps to keep the friction between Trump's "America First" policy and China to his advantage. 

As Bill Gates battles for population control in Africa of all places, he is winning by gaining China's respect and affection. 

But note that Gate is not interested in population growth in China. 

Gates’ outcry against Trump’s anti-abortion funding may just be that transactional; a strong signal to China that he is not with Trump on the issues, especially in trade matters. 

Gates, the globalist, cannot be seen as supporting Trump on the latter’s “America First” policy that targets China.  He has to lock horns with Trump to signal that and mark the separation point for China to see.  The sad part is he is using Africa as a chip in the gamble.

Bill Gates’ Microsoft has a business purpose in China and this purpose must be protected. Microsoft business operations worldwide had over $110 billion in revenue in 2017, a huge chunk of which came from the China sector because of the size of the population market.  Bill Gates, the capitalist, aims for more from China.

Therefore, a sudden turn in America/China trade relationship is something that Gates cannot afford or cherish. 

Then there is the case of a useful Africa that offers none of the market potentials that China has.  It has a vast space that can be emptied to lower the threat of migration increases that the West faces today. 

The word increase is not the one to use with such a racist intention but let’s leave it there.

However, for Gates, there is an advantage in suppressing population growth in Africa.  It is to fight off the Trump threat to China but to do so on the sly - on a platform in Africa, where Gates has a huge philanthropic reputation and advantage and no cost to his fortune.  So he pivots to abortion by waving the philanthropic flag in clueless Africa.

So here Is Gates of Microsoft, the "good corporate citizen," complaining about the “lack of funding” for abortion to fight population growth in Africa while he supports the drive to wipe out mosquitoes in Africa, a two-edge proposition that might end up harming Africa and he doesn’t care!

The wish to control population growth by aborting African babies, as an issue, has been made clearer. But what about using the efficacy of the Gates vaccine to stop malaria death? 

It makes sense to conclude that a change of the target from mosquitoes for humans to become infertile is more valid in the fight to control population growth.

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Gates said in the piece to The Guardian, “A pandemic like Ebola can spread very fast and many others spread even faster…The unstable movements of problem youth from Africa to the West….Ignore Africa at your peril….”  

If the African youth can be kept in Africa all will be well for Gates. But the unspoken fear is already out.  Overpopulation in Africa creates migration problems for the West.  It may bring diseases like Ebola to the West.  A typical liberal mindset of the West; always about some future threat from Africa, is thus revealed.   

Africa has threats that are generated externally but people like Bill Gates have chosen for centuries to ignore them.  

Emphasizing abortion may seem noble to the clueless African, but China's very presence in Africa is more of a formidable threat.

While Gate’s abortion drive tamps down population growth in Africa, mercantilist-minded China is emptying hers into Africa; thus presenting a colonial menace worse than Africa experienced in the 19th and 20th centuries.  

But Gates is not even worried about China’s colonial posture in Africa.  He is worried seriously about Trump, not funding abortions – a ploy to overlook the fact that China has its own "China First" policy.

The spearpoint of this policy is China’s forage into Africa.

For many self-aware, intelligent Africans, population growth in Africa is the least worry.

Productive population growth among Africans could mean Africa could keep hordes from China away.  Trump’s stance on abortion funding in Africa is not half as evil intent as Gates’ intent - for using Africa to improve Microsoft's relationship with China.

Trump’s anti-abortion stance for Africa is not the cause that is causing African youth to flee to the West. 

Flight from the continent has its beginnings in colonial exploitation, which exploitation is now being renewed by the brutal pace with which China is currently depleting Africa’s resources.

China has turned many African countries into chattel states with debt traps in the interest of her economy.  She uses loans to entice projects to help her goods and surplus labor population flow into Africa.

Critical jobs in Africa are taken up by China migrants, which factors in the causes for the flight of African youth to the West. This is the youth that frightens Bill Gates.  But strangely, Bill Gates, the philanthropist, watches China’s presence in Africa and is uninterested.

By the end of this century, Bill Gates says "there will be 4 billion more people on earth and 3 billion of these EXTRA souls will be born in Africa.”

He says the daunting challenge, “Africa must yet learn to feed the current population.”  Yet the resources to support the current population in Africa is being damaged by "Galamsay," the practice of destructive surface gold mining, which is turning rivers and streams into toxic waste, as seen in Ghana.  It is China that is heavily invested in the “Galamsay” industry in Ghana.

 In answer to population growth, Bill Gates must be made to learn that there must also be an “Africa First” approach to population growth. 

Africa has more than the total land space in China, in addition to more natural resources that Chiona does not have.  If China can be allowed to grow or control its population growth, then the same allowance should be available for Africa.

The potential to control healthy future outcomes for Africa must be driven by Africa's self-interest in population growth; not by the fruits of the comparatively meager philanthropic cash receipts from Gates, or loans acquired from China.

Could Bill Gates take the "Africa First" message to XI Jinping of China and leave us alone?  

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, publisher, www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, September 23, 2018

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