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The forced deportations of immigrants without due process, violent crackdowns against protesters in Los Angeles, ICE raids, and the deployment of military forces in Washington, D.C. are chilling reminders of the authoritarian playbook. For those of us who have lived through repression, these are unmistakable warning signs. Credit: Shutterstock
By Carine Kaneza Nantulya
WASHINGTON DC, Oct 15 2025 (IPS)
I moved to the United States in 2012 with great reluctance. I wasn’t sure why I should uproot myself to a country thousands of miles away from my hometown. The move reminded me of a childhood I hadn’t fully embraced—growing up in faraway countries like Russia and China, making constant adjustments, encountering racism, forging and losing friendships along the way. I had promised myself I would not impose the same cycle on my children.
This is the moment for the continent to claim leadership, to strengthen multilateralism, and to shape a global order rooted not in interventionism, self-centeredness but in Ubuntu -- a vision of shared humanity, community, and interdependence
But the U.S. turned out to be different. It wasn’t China, and it wasn’t Russia. It was, and still is, a mosaic of cultures, languages, and nationalities unlike anywhere else. Most important, it was a country rooted in the fierce belief that people are free to speak, dissent, and live as they choose.
That bedrock principle, however, is eroding. The US is changing in ways eerily reminiscent of my home country, Burundi. In 2015, when President Pierre Nkurunziza defied the constitution to seek a third term, peaceful protesters were met with bullets, political opponents were silenced, and journalists fled. Many of those journalists found refuge in the US—at Voice of America, for instance—only to lose their livelihoods recently when the government shuttered most of VOA’s Africa department.
The dismantling of USAID has left social workers and health experts reeling, their efforts to uplift millions crushed overnight. Yes, the US has long had a complicated role abroad. I grew up hearing about its support for abusive leaders like Mobutu in what was then Zaire and its meddling in countries’ internal affairs in the name of fighting communism.
But those contradictions always existed alongside a powerful counterforce: freedom in journalism and academia, and activism that relentlessly exposed America’s own wrongs. Writers like Alfred McCoy and critics like Noam Chomsky built careers by holding the U.S. government accountable—something unthinkable in today’s Burundi, Moscow or Beijing.
That commitment to truth and liberty was precisely why, when Burundian security forces fired live bullets into protesters, students instinctively ran to the US embassy—not the Russian or Chinese one. For decades, US soft power was rooted in the promise of human rights and democracy.
Carine Kaneza Nantulya, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch
Today, that promise is faltering. The forced deportations of immigrants without due process, violent crackdowns against protesters in Los Angeles, ICE raids, and the deployment of military forces in Washington, D.C. are chilling reminders of the authoritarian playbook.
For those of us who have lived through repression, these are unmistakable warning signs. Dictatorships do not emerge overnight; they take root when fear replaces voice, when courts surrender independence, when social movements fracture. Above all, they thrive on apathy and isolation.
Defending human rights and democratic principles is never easy—as my organization, Human Rights Watch, knows too well. But it is the only way to safeguard the dignity of the vulnerable and the cohesion of our shared humanity. So if Washington retreats from that responsibility, who will step up?
The answer lies, in part, with African governments. This is the moment for the continent to claim leadership, to strengthen multilateralism, and to shape a global order rooted not in interventionism, self-centeredness but in Ubuntu — a vision of shared humanity, community, and interdependence. Many Africans applauded when South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice saying Israel violated the Genocide Convention in Gaza. That same courage is needed in Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Sahel, where civilians face atrocities while the U.S. limits itself to mineral deals or silence.
“African solutions to African problems” cannot remain a slogan. It needs to become a policy agenda with concrete commitments. That means building stronger regional institutions with the authority and resources to act, supporting accountability mechanisms like the African Court and the International Criminal Court, and investing in early warning systems that can prevent crises before they spiral into atrocities.
It means protecting independent media and civil society so that governments are held accountable at home as well as abroad. And it means engaging at the United Nations and other multilateral forums not just as individual states but as coordinated blocks capable of shaping outcomes.
The US retreat is not simply a void; it is a test. If African leaders want to claim greater influence in the global order, they need to demonstrate it through pragmatic policies that protect civilians, strengthen the rule of law, and prioritize human dignity over mineral contracts and short-term business deals. This is less about replacing America and more about safeguarding Africa’s future on its own terms.
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Carine Kaneza Nantulya is deputy Africa director at Human Rights WatchLes études sur les anciens Prix Nobel italiens ont montré que dans ce pays très catholique, la majorité des lauréats du Prix Nobel italien n’ont pas eu des parents croyants.
L’explication se situe au niveau de la mémorisation en bas âge.
S’il est évident qu’un enfant de 6 ans peut mieux mémoriser des textes qu’un adulte de 70 ans, l’explication n’est pas celle que vous croyez.
Ce que l’enfant de 6 ans mémorise lui reste dans le cerveau à jamais, quelque soit ce qu’on lui fait mémoriser.
Or à 70 ans, l’adulte n’arrive pas à mémoriser aussi facilement, parce que son cerveau procède d’abord à une analyse et une sélection de ce qui convient ou non d’être mémorisé. L’adulte juge et décide si ça vaut la peine ou pas.
Et c’est ici que dès 6 ans, la route du futur potentiel Prix Nobel se sépare de celle de l’homme commun.
A 6 ans, l’enfant du croyant va mémoriser en priorité les prières. Et ces prières seront incrustées à jamais dans son cerveau.
Au même moment, l’enfant du scientifique va passer son temps à mémoriser les tables de multiplication et des notions scientifiques qui n’entrent en compétition ou en contradiction avec aucune logique mathématique, tout au long de sa vie.
Lorsqu’à 45 ans, il faudra qu’il analyse pour écarter de son champ d’action tout ce qui n’est pas essentiel, pour se concentrer aux priorités de sa vie, il pourra plus facilement se concentrer sur ce qui porte à changer la vie des humains, puisqu’il sera convaincu que les solutions ne proviennent que des actions humaines réfléchies, et non des volontés célestes.
J’ai publié samedi le 5 juin 2021 sur mon mur Facebook “ieg”; une photo me montrant à la plantation et demandant à chacun de moi dire ce qu’il avait fait de son samedi.
Plus de 50% des réponses disaient que les intervenants étaient à l’église, à la mosquée où à la prière.
On n’a pas besoin d’être un voyant pour prévoir qu’ils n’éduqueront pas leurs enfants pour devoir des potentiels Prix Nobel, puisque comme eux avant, leurs enfants mémoriseront la table des multiplications, oui, mais en plus, leurs cerveaux subiront un bombardement d’interférences faites de prières et de croyances en parfaite contradiction avec la logique.
Au final, si à 100 africains, vous posez la banale question : c’est quoi ta passion ? C’est quoi ton passe-temps favori, je parie que 99 ne sauront pas quoi répondre, parce qu’ils n’en ont pas.
Quand le cerveau d’un enfant à 6 ans a mémorisé des dogmes et non exclusivement la logique, à 30, 40, 50 ans, vous aurez des adultes Hors Sujet, déconnectés de la compétition internationale des intelligences.
Lire la suite sur www.pougala.net
Jean-Paul Pougala
Mardi le 14 octobre 2025
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