Kenya, the Nairobi office of the Bill Gates Foundation to manage the fund for health and agriculture

ROME – Last week – we learn from Africa e Affari, the magazine of the continent of the future, directed by Massimo Zaurrini – billionaire Bill Gates has announced the establishment of a 7 billion dollar fund for African countries to help them accelerate progress in health, agriculture, gender equality and other areas considered “critical” . A press release reports it. Microsoft founder said the fund will be distributed through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the next four years. The Foundation of the former spouses Gates is the largest in the world, it was created with the billionaire Warren Buffett with the intention of dealing with medical research, the fight against AIDS and malaria and, more generally, the improvement of living conditions in developing countries.

The big global challenges. Last week, Gates took a trip to Kenya, during which he made the announcement: “The great global challenges we face are persistent, but we must remember that so are the people who solve them,” the tycoon said to students of the University of Nairobi. “Our foundation will continue to support solutions in healthcare, agriculture and other critical areas and the ways to get them out of the lab and to the people who need them.” The Foundation will establish a regional office in Nairobi to “expand and enhance work in the health, agriculture and ICT (information and communication technologies) sectors in Kenya.”

“The dark plots of philanthrocapitalism”. Regarding the initiative of the Bill Gates Foundation, we asked Nicoletta Dentico for a comment, journalist, expert in international cooperation and human rights, directs the global health program of Society for International Development (Sid) and is the author of the essay, “Rich and good, the obscure plots of philanthrocapitalism” (Emi Edizioni). “The work of colonization of Gates Foundation continues – says Dentico – and achieves it by playing not only in the global dimension, but also very much on the regional level, intervening in the macro-regions. And Africa is one of these, where the Foundation is already present through many channels, in particular that of food”.

“The Extraordinary Hegemonic Strength of Gates”. “Today – added Dentico – in a logic of interconnection between food and health, Gates opens this new fund to create a link that evidently others still do not see. In short, it seems to me that he is focusing a lot on the construction of post-covid scenarios, institutionalizing its public-private partnerships within the United Nations organizations.A very clear design of colonization, which concerns several levels, in different places, without ever disdaining the regional spheres, which are where the scenarios of the future will be built. therefore new – concluded Nicoletta Dentico – but perfectly consistent with the past. Gates moves with his extraordinary capacity for hegemonic influence and control. It is the power of the private sector that now controls the world”.