Rwanda's New Colonialism in Africa: Troops, Land, Minerals, Enterprises and Sanctions. All on one man Paul Kagame
Rwanda's New Colonialism in Africa: Troops, Land, Minerals, Enterprises and Sanctions. All on one man Paul Kagame How Kigali is Replicating a Model of Extraction and Dependency Across Africa — and Why US Sanctions Must Hold The African Rights Campaign | March 2026 Introduction Rwanda has developed what its government presents to the world as a model of post-conflict state-building, regional security, and South-South solidarity. The reality, examined across the arc of Kigali's external engagements over the past decade, is something more troubling: a systematic pattern of military deployment, land acquisition, commercial extraction, and manufactured dependency that constitutes a new form of colonialism. The theatre changes — the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Congo-Brazzaville — but the architecture remains consistent. Rwanda arrives offering security, leaves with economic footholds, and engineers the conditions that make its dep...