The daughter of Libya’s former leader, Ayesha Gaddafi, has drawn global attention after urging people in Iran 🇮🇷 to reflect on Libya’s painful experience.By Nkarura Kishoyian.

The daughter of Libya’s former leader, Ayesha Gaddafi, has drawn global attention after urging people in Iran 🇮🇷 to reflect on Libya’s painful experience.
By Nkarura Kishoyian.

The daughter of Libya’s former leader, Ayesha Gaddafi, has drawn global attention after urging people in Iran 🇮🇷 to reflect on Libya’s painful experience.
By Nkarura Kishoyian.

Her message is not about personalities, but about patterns. Libya once had one of Africa’s strongest social systems, free education, free healthcare, and a state vision rooted in sovereignty. Today, it stands fractured, not by its own people, but by foreign intervention sold under the language of “freedom” and “human rights.”

For Pan-Africans, this warning echoes loudly across history and geography. Libya is not an isolated case. Afghanistan was promised liberation and got endless war. Haiti was punished for daring to free itself and has never been allowed to breathe without foreign chains. Sudan was fractured along political and economic fault lines drawn from outside. Somalia was labeled a failed state after its institutions were systematically dismantled. The Congo remains one of the richest lands on earth, yet its people live in poverty because its wealth fuels foreign industries. Rwanda’s tragedy unfolded under the watch, silence, and manipulation of global powers who later rewrote the narrative.

Add Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and even Libya’s African neighbors. Different cultures, same script. Destabilize. Divide. Loot. Then lecture the survivors about democracy.

Pan-Africanism is not nostalgia; it is memory with purpose. Africa and the Global South must study Libya not to defend mistakes, but to understand consequences. Sovereignty is not perfect governance, but without it, nations lose the right to correct themselves. Ayesha Gaddafi’s message is a reminder that when foreign powers arrive as saviors, they often leave as owners.

History keeps whispering. The question is whether Africa, Asia, and the oppressed world are finally ready to listen, unite, and choose self-determination over externally scripted futures.