Control Over Care: The Real Agenda Behind Bill Gates’s Work in Africa

Despite his billions, Bill Gates’ swaggering around the planet as if it were his petri dish—experimenting with health, agriculture, and global systems—has done far more damage than good. Instead of healing, his billions are often used to prop up systems of dependency on his entities, corporate control, and ecological collapse. Without a doubt, beneath his philanthropic façade lies a deeper reality. His self-serving vision is designed to destroy nations, communities, and ecosystems. In Africa, Gates longs to cast himself as a savior, pouring billions into agricultural “solutions.” However, his firm grip is choking small farmers, eroding autonomy, and feeding the narrative of the deep state.

Bill Gates has spent years portraying himself as a humanitarian—especially in Africa. But behind his polished PR is a more troubling story: his so-called agricultural aid has devastated ecosystems, undermined smallholder farmers, and locked communities into cycles of dependence. His billion-dollar push for a “Green Revolution” in Africa, led through the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was supposed to increase yields and reduce hunger. Instead, it did neither. Independent studies found that AGRA failed to significantly improve food security or farmer incomes. In fact, hunger in the countries where AGRA operated actually increased by 30 percent.

As reported by many paying attention, including our team at The Highwire, Gates’s model promotes monoculture farming, toxic chemical dependency, and patented genetically modified seed systems—pushing African farmers away from traditional, biodiverse practices. In reality, the supposed “modernization” of agriculture means replacing sacred indigenous food systems with corporate-controlled input chains, including hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and dangerous chemical pesticides. This shift has not only degraded the soil and reduced resilience but has also left many farmers trapped in debt when harvests fail. Far from empowering local communities, Gates’s model forces them into a corner, where they are faced with a choice: follow the top-down model created by Gates or be left out.

Even worse, Gates’s funding overwhelmingly circumvents African-led organizations. According to a report by GRAIN, over 80 percent of Gates Foundation agricultural funding goes to institutions outside Africa. This intentional bypass creates a dynamic where Africans are treated as passive recipients of assistance rather than active creators of their own food future. In typical Bill Gates fashion, he is not offering support—he is seizing control. To make matters worse and secure his scheme, seed laws influenced by Gates-backed initiatives often criminalize the saving and sharing of seeds, undermining centuries of traditional practice. This manipulative maneuver puts the control of food in the hands of Gates and his cronies.

Moreover, upon closer examination of Gates’s disregard for Mother Earth, it is apparent that very real harm is being done to the soil. Soils are eroding. Pest resistance is rising. Traditional crops are vanishing. Indigenous knowledge is being erased. Farmers who once fed their communities with diversity and resilience are now struggling under the weight of debt, legal threats, and ecological collapse. And when African faith leaders, farmers, and civil society groups speak out, they’re often ignored or painted as anti-progress. In 2023, major African religious leaders publicly denounced Gates’s programs and called for reparations and the cancellation of AGRA expansion, as reported by USRTK. In a 2021 letter to Gates, African faith leaders pleaded:

“In addition to damaging ecosystems, threatening local livelihoods and increasing climate vulnerabilities, monocrop farming ignores and undermines smallholder farmers, whose efforts promote sustainable food production and protect the environment.

What African farmers need, is support to find communal solutions that increase climate resilience, rather than the top-down profit-driven industrial-scale farming systems proposed. When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”

But Gates’s grip on Africa doesn’t end with agriculture. His obsession with widespread vaccination campaigns has raised deep ethical questions. Under the banner of global health, the Gates Foundation has poured billions into vaccine rollouts across the continent—often with minimal transparency and even less consent from the communities affected. Critics have pointed to incidents where experimental or insufficiently tested vaccines were deployed in African populations, raising serious concerns about informed consent and medical ethics. Rather than prioritizing basic infrastructure, nutrition, or clean water—the actual pillars of health—Gates has doubled down on pharmaceutical interventions, using his billions to experiment on humans like test subjects in a lab.

Gates has also openly discussed his interest in population control, often under the euphemism of “public health solutions.” In a now-infamous TED Talk, he stated that with the right vaccines, healthcare, and reproductive services, global population growth could be curbed. To many, especially in the developing world, this rhetoric is unequivocally dangerous and dehumanizing. In reality, when someone with Gates’s wealth and influence talks about reducing population and simultaneously funds aggressive health interventions in poor countries, the line between philanthropy and control becomes dangerously blurred.

We all know that Bill Gates could choose to use his billions to restore land, empower local systems, and truly regenerate African agriculture. He could choose to support health sovereignty, access to clean water, and holistic wellness. Instead, he repeatedly chooses to impose systems he has designed in boardrooms and sinister labs that aren’t rooted in the soil or the soul. His obsession with technological solutions, patents, and dangerous vaccines, as well as his pursuit of ultimate control, has left a trail of broken promises, destroyed ecosystems, and a deepening distrust among those he claims to help. For a man who claims to save lives, the reality of his experiments tells a different story. Africa doesn’t need another billionaire savior. It needs sovereignty, trust in its own wisdom, and freedom from an imposed future written by Bill Gates.