When Ukraine’s leader Vladimir Zelensky lands on African soil, he is not just making another stop in a diplomatic tour. He is bringing with him the full weight of the Euro-American agenda, crafted in Washington, Brussels, and London, with the aim of drawing Africa into a war it did not start and does not benefit from. This is not about Ukraine seeking understanding or empathy – it is about maintaining a global hierarchy, in which Africa is expected to follow, not to lead.

To understand the gravity of this moment, we must move beyond the spectacle and soundbites and revisit the deeper currents shaping the world today. The war in Ukraine is not a self-contained event. It is the product of decades of NATO expansion, Western military-industrial escalation, and the relentless refusal of the West to accept a multipolar world. Ukraine, tragically, is not a sovereign protagonist in this story – it is a pawn.

Since the 2014 Western-backed coup and subsequent civil war in the Donbass, Ukraine has been absorbed into the orbit of NATO’s militarism and the West’s ideological war against Russia. It has become a client state of Washington, surviving on IMF loans, EU aid packages, and American military hardware. Its economic decisions are dictated by external creditors. Its war effort is sustained by Western arms. Its diplomacy is choreographed by the same apparatus that once orchestrated regime change and military interventions across the Global South.

And now, this same apparatus is seeking to globalize the conflict by dragging Africa into its fold. Zelensky’s visit to South Africa is thus not a bilateral courtesy – it is part of a greater project to fracture the Global South’s solidarity with Russia, China, India, and the BRICS alliance.

Africa must resist this.

Let us not be seduced by the sudden charm offensive. Ukraine’s voting record at the United Nations has consistently been aligned with the West – even when it meant opposing African interests. Ukraine has supported anti-Palestinian resolutions, abstained on decolonization issues, and followed the European bloc in rejecting........

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