Scrolling through my social media and news feeds, “I stand with Ukraine” is the dominant statement of support for a country that undeniably needs it at this time. But this stance is not as black and white as Western liberals like to think. It is not a simple exercise of picking sides between the ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’.
Not for Africans, anyway. Some even see President Putin’s war in Ukraine as one man’s resistance to Western hegemony.
The rest of the world has experienced NATO, Europe and the US in other ways than ‘good’ – and we are allowed to express the anger and scepticism that highlights hypocrisy and calls for caution about Western solutions.
