LaRouche Has Stood
With and for Africa
by Lawrence K. Freeman,Douglas DeGroot, and David Cherry
Africa policy has always been a leading edge of Lyndon
LaRouche’s political intervention. For him, it is a moral
test of whether humanity will do its part to enable Africans to take their rightful place in the world. This conception is a major element in his strategic approach tothe self-development of humankind. Over the last four
decades, no other American leader has fought moreconsistently and tenaciously for the development of thenations of the Africa than LaRouche. He has repeatedoften to his associates and to international audiences,that we as a people cannot consider ourselves truly
moral, until we bring justice to Africa. His principled
and unswerving defense of the sovereignty of African
nations from the depredations of supranational institutions has upset many in Washington and London, andeven a few Africans.
Members of his movement, in the Schiller Institute(SI) and at EIR, have conducted organizing visits since
1983 to many African nations, from the Maghreb, to theSahel, West Africa, the Horn, Central Africa, and Southern Africa, and LaRouche himself has visited Sudan.
His writings and philosophy are known in many African capitals.
He has always defended any country unjustly targeted for regime change, and he shocked many when,in one Washington, D.C., meeting, he said that if hewould stand anywhere in Africa to fight the BritishEmpire, it would be in Zimbabwe.
It is therefore fitting that leaders from four African
nations, each of which has great potential to contributeto the development of the entire continent—Zimbabwe,
South Africa, Sudan, and Nigeria—have contributed tothe Festschrift presented to Mr. LaRouche as a gift fromhis admirers and collaborators from around the world.

Genocide in Africa Must End
For LaRouche, Africa’s enforced poverty and its
manipulated wars are nothing but a form of genocide.
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To end this genocide, Africa must be developed. It musthum with agro-industrial production and nuclear power
for the benefit of itself and the world. The opposing
concept of “poverty reduction” (better expressed as“misery management”), so familiar from United Nations and NGO documents, has always been foreign tohis thought. This difference is evident in his writings
since the 1970s. It reflects a quality of his soul that is
not found among the liberal sympathizers of Africa. Forhim, ending genocide is a moral and political imperative, not simply a good cause.
LaRouche has relentlessly identified the BritishEmpire as the mortal enemy of mankind responsible forthe genocide in Africa; today, it implements this policy
through tentacles extending from the City of London’s
financial empire, as it did earlier through direct Britishcolonial rule. This is no exaggeration, as some haveclaimed. Listen to the British Royal Family in its insistence that the world’s population of over 7 billion
should be reduced to 1 to 2 billion, advocating the needfor a “black plague” or a new deadly virus to thin out
our “overpopulated planet.” Read the history and policies of the outright fascist World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF), which demands that Africa remain one big
game reserve, not just for its rhinos and elephants, but
for its people as well, by remaining pristine, untouchedby technological progress. Its policy to reduce especially the black population of sub-Saharan Africa by
disease, war, and famine is still dominant on the continent today.
In response to an increase in activity by the LaRouche movement in Africa, LaRouche commissioned
a number of studies between 1994 and 1997, whichwere published in an EIR Special Report in September
1997, entitled The True Story Behind the Fall of theHouse of Windsor, documenting the Nazi roots of theRoyal Family’s and the WWF’s policy of genocide in
Africa and imperial control over its natural resources.
This 218-page report provides historical material that isrequired reading to understand the deplorable conditions of Africa today.
LaRouche has identified the oligarchical principle
as the evil ideology we must defeat. According to thisprinciple, men are no different than beasts; it refuses toacknowledge that every human life is sacred, having
been endowed with the divine spark of creativity by theCreator. This ideology relies on the malthusian dogmathat the Earth is finite, and therefore population growth
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LaRouche addresses a conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Dec. 17-23, 1996. He is widelyknown as a friend of Africa, following decades of policy interventions there.

must be limited to “sustainable” levels; it rejects themanifest potential of human beings to make discoveries
that constantly redefine what is a “resource.” Naturally
occurring hydrocarbons are a dwindling, fixed resource,
but the progression from hydrocarbons to nuclear fission, thermonuclear fusion, matter-antimatter reactions, and beyond, need have no limit.
In the early 1980s, LaRouche circulated two pamphlets that identified the policies of genocide and thecountermeasures that, if adopted, would lead to the creation of economically sovereign nations: “Open Letterto IMF Member Nations—‘Conditionalities’ Are a‘Nuremberg Crime’ ” and “The Men Behind Genocide—100 Times Worse than Hitler.” A third pamphletproduced by the LaRouche movement in that period,“Global 2000—Genocide 100 Times Worse thanHitler,” exposed President Jimmy Carter’s Global 2000
report, which explicitly called for population reduction,
and was supported by the WWF and Aurelio Peccei’s
Club of Rome.
On May 3, 1991, EIR released a bombshell report
exposing Henry Kissinger’s 1974 study (classified foryears) entitled: “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population
Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests”(NSSM-200). It called for reducing population growthand preventing industrial development, so the West
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would maintain an uninterrupted
flow of minerals and other naturalresources. Kissinger alreadyhated LaRouche; he had instigated illegal dirty operations
against him throughout the 1980s
and worked with President
George H.W. Bush to send LaRouche to prison in 1989. With
EIR’s report on NSSM-200, Kissinger was publicly identified withthe policies of genocide. Amongthe 13 key nations targeted in
Kissinger’s study for population
reduction, because of their highrates of population growth, were
three major African nations:Egypt, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.

Peace Through the Science ofDevelopment

LaRouche didn’t just fight against genocide; he provided the programs to counter it. He countered the refusal to permit the development of the inherent potential of African nations, with his policy to create
infrastructure platforms from which countries could
drive their economies upward. Africa was a test case, toshow how his principles of physical economy wouldwork.
As early as 1975, his proposal for an International
Development Bank (IDB—How the International Development Will Work) included a chapter on “The Development of Savanna-Sudan-Sahel Agriculture,”
with emphasis on infrastructure. A 1979 conference
on “The Industrialization of Africa” presented the firstdetailed proposal from LaRouche and his movement
for the development of Africa as a whole. It was sponsored by the Fusion Energy Foundation, an organization LaRouche co-founded; the conference proceedings were published by the Foundation in 1980,
providing an in-depth picture of the types of infrastructure projects that would transform African countries from extreme underdevelopment into industrialized nations capable of providing for their growingpopulations. LaRouche spoke on “The Myth of Equilibrium Economics.”
The section titles indicate the scope of the conference:
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51I. Development Policy in a New World Economic
Order
II. Development of Labor Power
III. Blueprint for the Industrialization of Africa

More LaRouche Initiatives
For Africa
Lyndon LaRouche proposed many additional initiatives to protect Africa’s population and advancee its
infrastructure, and to deny the British-run globalist
financial empire the ability to prevent the development of Africa.
• In 1974, LaRouche initiated a task force which
produced a study that forecast the deadly consequences for the world’s population and the biosphere,of the “zero-growth” policies of the IMF/World
Bank. This “Ecological Holocaust” study forecast
that if the IMF policies continued, a global ecological holocaust would be the inevitable consequence.
Certain nations and regions were being given thedesignation “Fourth World,” and written off as unworthy of investment for economic development,leaving them as looting zones. Africa was a particular victim of these policies.
The report warned of pandemics and famines thatwould advance exponentially, and which, in less than
10 years, were occurring. It concluded that at a certain point, the process would become irreversible.
LaRouche advocated infrastructural development as the only defense against this process.
• In 1978, LaRouche proposed the creation of aSouthern Africa Development Association, to develop the region with the most modern technologies.
To overcome the objection that such a development
approach could not be financed, LaRouche specified
long-term, low-interest credits. The idea of southern
Africa was developed to an advanced stage in 1977
by Jürgen Ponto of Dresdner Bank, who had foreseen linking up the vastly underutilized productive
capacity of industrial countries with the huge development needs of southern Africa.
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IV. Financing Industrial Development
Following the release by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) of its “Lagos Plan of Action for theEconomic Development of Africa 1980-2000,” Laing the ugly, British-induced apartheid policy inSouth Africa, as well as the Ian Smith “internal settlement” in what was then Rhodesia. Although welcomed by some in South Africa as a way out of thedead end they were in, the proposal was not implemented, extending apartheid for 15 more years.
• In 1980, the Fusion Energy Foundation’s  booklength proposal for Africa-wide infrastructure development included the diversion of approximately 5%of the Congo River’s water flow to replenish the disappearing Lake Chad. LaRouche’s intent was to turn
Lake Chad into a new source of water to reverse theprocess of desertification, creating a Sahel renewal
project. The project would have been the largest development project in the world, at that time.
• In 1991-92, reports published in Rome by theItalian company Bonifica, further refined the route tobe taken for the Congo River water-diversion project, calling it the Transaqua Project. A few years
later, LaRouche renewed his call for the Lake Chad/
Sahel development project, emphasizing that continental development was the only viable antidote to
the protracted conflict then being orchestrated incentral Africa. The LaRouche movement promoted
the Transaqua Project, hosting its author at conferences and publishing his work. The Italian report
was coherent with LaRouche’s original proposal. It
also called for high-voltage electricity lines, and aninternational river and land transport network
stretching from Mombasa, Kenya, to Nigeria, Algeria, and Libya.
At the 8th Forum for Sustainable Development in
N’Djamena, Chad (Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2010), LaRouche associates advanced LaRouche’s view that
great infrastructure projects, along the lines of theTransaqua Project, are essential.
• At a Jan. 14-17, 2001 development conferencein Sudan, LaRouche focussed on the necessity of developing the enormous potential of southern Sudan’s
rainfed agricultural zone as a breadbasket for Africa
and Southwest Asia.
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Rouche immediately responded with his own booklength critique, entitled Stop Club of Rome Genocidein Africa! Critical Comments Appended to the Lagos
Plan of Action (1981). The concluding paragraphs ofLaRouche’s introduction to his critique, “Development of Neo-Malthusian Genocide,” are the following:“On the positive side of the problem of development, we must move beyond mere lists of particular requirements for development to a unified conception ofdevelopment. [In recent years he has used the notion oftechnologically advanced, integrated infrastructure
platforms, as opposed to a collection of projects—ed.]“It should be clear from the same pages that weview it as indispensable to successful development ofAfrica to transform a growing population of students
into a dedicated elite trained in the principles of development as well as in the professions of scientist, engineer, and technicians in such specialties as physics,
chemistry, biology, agronomy, medicine, civil engineering, and so forth.”
The entire Jan. 1, 1993 issue of EIR was devoted to“The Rebirth of Africa.” This 80-page edition included excerpts from LaRouche’s critique of theLagos Plan, along with articles on food production,water projects, construction of railroads, solving Africa’s debt crisis, and a crash program for ending theHIV/AIDS crisis.
The largest conference on Africa organized by theLaRouche movement was a two-day seminar in Germany on April 26 and 27, 1997, on “Peace ThroughDevelopment in Africa’s Great Lakes Region.” Representatives of groupings from Burundi, Rwanda, andUganda participated, including the former Presidentof Uganda, Dr. Godfrey L. Binaisa, along with members of the SI, EIR, and Mr. and Mrs. LaRouche.
Speaking after Dr. Binaisa, LaRouche gave the keynote presentation, “Viewing Africa’s Current Crisis
from the Vantage Point of Universal History.” In his
closing remarks to the seminar, LaRouche spoke on
the theme, “We are called upon to act as Good Samaritans, not Hobbesians,” defining the problem of organizing others to prevent people from enslaving themselves as a “missionary problem.” “It’s to lift up
people, to evoke, by being devoted to it ourselves, toevoke from others the quality which we most prize ofthe true human interest.”
LaRouche’s last visit to Sudan was as a featured
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EIRspeaker at a four-day conference in Khartoum, Jan.
14-17, 2001, co-sponsored by the SI and EIR on thetheme, “Peace Through Development Along the Nile
Valley in the Framework of a New, Just World Economic Order.” The conference was addressed by experts on agriculture and water management, along withrepresentatives from Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, a mix ofpeople from political parties, and Sudanese citizens.
LaRouche set the tone for the gathering by addressing
the necessity to bring into existence “The New Bretton
Woods System: Framework for a New Just EconomicOrder.” A longtime collaborator of LaRouche, the lateProf. Sam Aluko, Nigeria’s renowned economist, addressed the Khartoum seminar on “The Economic andPolitical Failure of Globalization in Africa.” LaRouche,Aluko, and others engaged in a lively debate on theneed to develop the whole of Sudan and not rely solely
on oil revenues. LaRouche also warned the governmentof Sudan of the dangerous policies that one could expectfrom the newly elected U.S. President, George W. Bush.
The conference speeches were published in EIR (Feb.
9, Feb. 23, and March 9, 2001).
Africa has no truer friends in the United States thanLyndon LaRouche and his movement, which has fought
since its inception for the right of Africans to live dignified, productive, and healthy lives. LaRouche is stillfighting today to put the British Empire out of its misery,and return the United States from its current status as aBritish vassal to its original mission as a temple of liberty and a beacon of hope to the world, which would
shift U.S. policy from abandonment of Africa to cooperation in its development.
No one, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F.
Kennedy, has had the vision, or made the impact on African leaders which LaRouche has done in the last 40years. The ideas are sown; the harvest remains to bereaped.

Excerpts from contributions toLaRouche’s Festschrift
Dr. Machivenyika Mapuranga, Ambassador,Zimbabwe
As Lyndon LaRouche celebrates his 90th birthday,
I regard him as a great role model for the world’s
youth. His works clearly show how a single individual
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can make an enormous contribution to the corpus ofhuman knowledge over a long period of time, by dedicating one’s life to a great cause and through diligence and a Spartan life-style of selfless service toothers.
Lyndon LaRouche’s dedication to the advancementof science and technology in the service of humankind
and of social and economic justice in the world, areworthy causes, and for this, I wish him many more
years of a healthy life and productive work.

Larry C. Fejokwu, Publisher, Lagos, Nigeria
In the last decade and a half, I have been privileged
to attend several seminars, lectures and meetings andinternational discourses featuring the great scholar. In
the past decades, Lyn has made monumental contributions towards uplifting mankind in practically every continent in the world. His zeal for economic and politicaltransformation of the African continent in particular has
been spectacular. On this historic occasion of his ninth
decade on planet Earth, African intellectuals, nations,and friends of the great scholar will pray and celebrate

his very fulfilled life of serving God and humanity.
Lyn’s life and innovative postulations, especiallytowards the emancipation of the much-maligned African nations, will serve as a great legacy for African
leaders, most of whom in the past half century havefailed woefully to transform the lives of their nations.
African leaders must reflect on the incredible legacy ofa great humanist who has spent his entire life fighting
for the socio-economic and political transformation ofnations and peoples. Happy and more buoyant decadeahead, Lyn.

Gamal Goraish, Embassy of Sudan,Washington, D.C.
In celebrating your Special Birthday, the Embassyof the Republic of the Sudan joins in wishing you aVery Happy Birthday.
On this happy occasion, the Embassy takes this opportunity to thank you for your involvement with theSudan. Your numerous years of being a political activist
and your tireless contribution to society are to be highlycommended.

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