Скачать или смотреть Expatriates vs. Labourers: The Hidden Bias Shaping African Leadership in the Global Arena

This is not just a difference in titles. It is a deeply rooted bias, a quiet but brutal narrative that shapes global perception of African leadership, potential, and worth.

The term 'expatriate' suggests expertise, prestige, and purpose.
The term 'labourers' suggests struggle, survival, and replaceability.

The world has mastered the art of dressing Africans in inferiority — even when we sit at the table of global commerce, tech, finance, and diplomacy.

African doctors in Europe. African engineers in the Middle East. African designers in America.
Their genius is reduced to 'labour.'

But when the reverse happens, the world celebrates 'global citizens', 'specialists', and 'international experts'.

Africa is not the world's labour reservoir. Africans are not permanent apprentices to Western mastery.

This bias is not just semantic. It influences how African nations are treated in negotiations.
It shapes the funding opportunities African founders receive.
It decides who gets the mic, and who is muted.
It defines which passports open doors, and which ones invite suspicion.

This narrative must be dismantled.

It is time we rewrite the script:
Not as hired hands, but as architects of global leadership.
Not as bodies for export, but as minds for impact.
Not as cheap labour, but as priceless assets.

Until Africa owns her narrative, the world will keep branding her children with borrowed names and biased labels.

Leadership is not geography. It is identity. And it is time Africa reclaims hers.