In Africa, it has been raging for yearsand mostly in silence
For over a century, the Rockefeller dynasty has quietly sculpted the architecture of global power through its control of vital systems, none more insidious than its domination of the food and pharmaceutical industries. What began with John D. Rockefeller’s monopolisation of oil evolved into a far-reaching influence over healthcare, agriculture, and scientific research. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the early establishment of modern Western medicine, not with a mission to heal, but to institutionalize a model of sickness management, one that suppresses natural remedies and promotes pharmaceutical dependence. Their involvement in reshaping medical education through institutions like Johns Hopkins ensured that generations of doctors were trained to treat symptoms, not causes, using patented drugs derived from petrochemicals.
At the same time, their strategic investment in industrial agriculture redefined food itself. Highly processed, chemically laden, and nutritionally depleted, modern food became a delivery system for disease. Artificial dyes, synthetic additives, endocrine disruptors, and carcinogens, often banned in other parts of the world, have been standard fare in the American food supply. This toxic model not only fuels chronic illness but feeds directly into the pharmaceutical industry’s profits. A sick population is a dependent population, and dependency is profitable.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is a shot across the bow of that corrupt system. For decades, petroleum-based food dyes, banned in Europe, have quietly infiltrated American pantries and cafeterias, contributing to an alarming rise in childhood illnesses. As RFK Jr. rightly pointed out, when his uncle was president, just 3% of American children had chronic disease. Today, that number has ballooned to 60%. Autism, ADHD, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and childhood cancers are no longer rare, they are systemic. And no one in power had the courage to confront the cause, until now.
What makes this moment especially significant is not just the policy shift, but the spirit behind it. For the first time in decades, a public health leader is openly acknowledging that food is not just a dietary concern, it’s a battlefield. RFK Jr. did not mince words when he called out the silent epidemic of illness. “The best way to lower drug prices,” he said, “is to stop taking drugs we don’t need.” He exposed how the industry has sacrificed public health on the altar of corporate profit, using America’s children as guinea pigs. And the plan moving forward is simple: identify the poisons and remove them, one by one.
But if this war against toxic food is just beginning in America, in Africa, it has been raging for years, and mostly in silence. For far too long, Africa has been the dumping ground for the same chemical-laced foods and experimental products long banned in Western nations. The continent’s broken regulatory systems, corrupt puppet governments, and weak medical infrastructures have made it fertile ground for exploitation. Multinationals and philanthropic fronts disguised as benevolent actors have fed Africa genetically modified crops, synthetic food aid, and untested medications. The people have been left sicker, poorer, and more dependent.
Food insecurity in Africa is not merely a consequence of drought or conflict. It is manufactured through economic sabotage, unfair trade deals, land grabs, and the destruction of indigenous farming systems. The dominance of corporate agriculture, pushed by institutions like the Gates Foundation and their allies in the agrochemical industry, has undermined food sovereignty across the continent. Meanwhile, rising rates of non-communicable diseases, once rare in Africa, mirror the very epidemics devastating the West.
If the West is finally waking up to the poison on its plate, Africa must leapfrog past this slow awakening. The stakes are higher, and the margin for error smaller. Africans must reclaim their food systems. That means rejecting imported toxins, restoring indigenous farming practices, investing in local food processing, and empowering communities to control their food from seed to plate. Transparency, sovereignty, and education must become the cornerstones of Africa’s food revolution.
The same global empires that poisoned the West are looking to tighten their grip on Africa. But the continent holds an advantage: it still remembers a time when food was medicine, farming was sacred, and communities were self-reliant. The challenge is not just to resist the corporate model, but to build a new one, rooted in health, justice, and autonomy.
The revelations from RFK Jr. are a wake-up call. But they are also an invitation. Africa must not wait for Western regulators to clean up their food system. The continent must act with urgency and vision, not just to protect its people, but to offer the world an example of what real food sovereignty looks like. The war on food has come home. And in Africa, it has never ended. Now is the time to fight back.
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