Gaddafi’s Real Crime: Daring to Liberate Africa
“We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton laughed in 2011, moments after hearing of Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal death. The world applauded. The media painted it as the fall of a tyrant. But behind the cheers and headlines, a darker truth was quietly buried: Gaddafi was killed because he dared to dream of a free Africa.
In 2016, the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails confirmed what many had long suspected. NATO’s intervention in Libya had nothing to do with protecting civilians. It had everything to do with stopping the birth of an independent African economic system one that would threaten the global financial order dominated by the U.S. dollar, the IMF, and the French-controlled CFA franc.
Gaddafi’s bold plan? A gold-backed African currency, the Gold Dinar, would be used to sell oil and other resources. This move would have liberated Africa from the economic stranglehold of the West. No longer would African nations be forced to trade their wealth in dollars or euros. Instead, they would control their own destiny.
Libya, with its vast oil reserves and 143 tons of gold, was ready to lead the way. Had Gaddafi succeeded, oil-rich Arab nations, gold-producing African countries like Mali and South Africa, and even emerging powers like Russia could have followed. The consequences for the dollar’s dominance would have been catastrophic.
France, the United States, and Britain all knew it. According to the emails, Sarkozy feared Libya’s move would give African nations “an alternative to the dollar and euro.” Libya’s vast gold and silver reserves, intended to fund this revolution, simply disappeared after NATO’s bombs fell. Was it a coincidence or looting?
The “humanitarian intervention” unleashed hell on earth. Libya, once Africa’s richest nation with free education, free healthcare, and the continent’s highest standard of living, descended into chaos. The Great Man-Made River—the world’s largest irrigation project, symbolizing African self-sufficiency—was bombed into dust. Human trafficking flourished. ISIS gained a foothold. Slavery returned to Libyan soil.
Yet no Western leader lost sleep over Libya’s collapse. The goal had been achieved: Africa’s financial independence was dead, and with it, Gaddafi’s revolutionary dream.
The real crime wasn’t Gaddafi’s alleged brutality; it was his ambition for Africa. A vision where the continent would finally control its own resources and where its people would no longer be economic pawns in a rigged global game.
Gaddafi wasn’t a saint, but neither was he the villain the West needed him to be. He was a threat not to his people but to Western hegemony.
He dared to envision a wealthy, powerful, and liberated Africa.
For that, he was not executed by a court, nor by history, but rather by bombs, betrayal, and lies.
The real question we must ask isn’t whether Gaddafi was a dictator.
The real question is: Who truly benefits when every African leader who dreams of freedom is branded a monster and killed?
More importantly, when will Africa finally be allowed to choose its destiny without paying for it in blood?
