Why Africa Needs To Go Nuclear

Africa sits on a very large amount of uranium. Yet the continent is a signatory to treaties that prohibit it from ever using this uranium to serve and defend its own interests.

Through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Pelindaba Treaty, Africa has been boxed out of nuclear deterrence, while its fissile reserves have continued to power the cities and arsenals of its former colonizers.

Buried in each of these treaties is a provision to withdraw from them under "extraordinary” circumstances. Today, Africa’s former colonizers, under the de facto dictatorship of the United States, are funding genocides in Palestine and Sudan, arming terrorists in the Sahel, dropping bombs on Latin America and kidnapping popular leaders.

Are these circumstances not extraordinary enough for Africa’s leaders, who claim to serve the people of Africa, to finally start taking the sovereignty and security of their continent more seriously?

Mayowa Durosinmi (@mayordeah_) reports for the Spearhead.