Lewis Hamilton: Africa Must Unite and Take Control Back From the British

Lewis Hamilton has said the African continent needs to “unite and take [Africa] back from the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the British” – apparently unaware that the British Empire withdrew from Africa 60 years ago. The Telegraph has the story.

The British seven-time world champion, who described himself as “half-African”, vowed to carry on racing in Formula One until there is a grand prix in Africa.

Hamilton, 41, speaking ahead of the 2026 season opener in Melbourne, was asked by a South African journalist about a possible return of F1 to the continent and in which country he would most like a race to be held.

The 1993 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami was the last grand prix in Africa. Hamilton said he had been “fighting for the past six, seven years” to get a race in Africa back on the calendar.

“There’s one on every other continent, why not Africa?” the Ferrari driver said. “I know they [F1] are really trying. I think they’ve been to quite a few different countries.

“The ones that I’ve enjoyed the most: I loved Kenya. [But] I don’t think we’re going to have a grand prix in Kenya. Rwanda was spectacular. Two places I felt like I could live. South Africa is stunning. I think those are the ones I think would be good places for us to potentially go to.”

Hamilton then said that he did not like the fact that other countries “controlled” Africa for its resources.

“I think it is the most beautiful part of the world, and I don’t like that the rest of the world owns so much of it and takes so much from it and no one speaks about it,” he said. “I’m really hoping that the people that are running those different countries all unite and come together and take Africa back. That’s what I want to see. Take it back from the French, take it back from the Spanish, take it back from the Portuguese and the British.

“It’s so important for the future of that continent. They have all the resources to be the greatest and most powerful place in the world, and that’s probably why they are being controlled the way they are. But anyways, move on.”

Worth reading in full.

Hamilton appears to be living in the 19th century. And what about China? There’s a country that actually is taking over large swathes of Africa, at least in terms of mining and mineral rights.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 month ago

Will Jones wrote: “Hamilton appears to be living in the 19th century. And what about China? There’s a country that actually is taking over large swathes of Africa, at least in terms of mining and mineral rights.”

This is absolutely spot on!

Hamilton’s backstabbing of the country that made him rich and famous, like Lenny Henry and countless others, is typical of the ingratitude and Eternal Victimhood of Third World Ethnics in the West. Is he going to call for “Slave Reparations” for himself next? Perhaps he’d like the unemployed former coal miners to pay him?

Jonsey_Bach
Jonsey_Bach
1 month ago
Reply to  Heretic

No more dependency on anything from the West, no foreign aid etc. Sounds like a good deal to me

MajorMajor
MajorMajor
1 month ago
Reply to  Jonsey_Bach

Africa must take back control?
Absolutely!
Let’s draw a line: you owe us nothing and we owe you nothing.
Let’s go separate ways.
I think we’ll be just fine.

RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
1 month ago
Reply to  Heretic

Hamilton, is a highly gifted racing driver. Like many other celebrity sportsmen ( and women) he has confused that talent with expecting his limited opinion to be valid on other subjects of which he clearly has no grasp. Hamilton at 31, of mixed race, has chosen to ride the race bandwagon, while his race career starts to decline.

soundofreason
soundofreason
1 month ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Yes.

He’s 41 – so nearly a has-been in F1.

RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
1 month ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Thanks sor. Subtraction error. Its difficult to stay ahead of the younger challengers at that age. In whatever branch of motorsport. I’m in my 6th decade in National Forest Rallying.

soundofreason
soundofreason
1 month ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

I’d say knock ’em dead – except, please don’t. I’ll settle for: keep having fun.

Gezza England
Gezza England
1 month ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

He was a gifted racing driver who got where he was by his father financing him and by choosing to drive the best car of which there are usually only two a season. As a new season of one of the most expensive dullest sports begins, Hamilton is not even able to beat his team mate which is the first requirement for any driver.

transmissionofflame
1 month ago
Reply to  Heretic

Below according to the internet. So he has left the country of his birth but no he hasn’t gone to Africa has he? He has gone to places filled with rich people so he can pay less tax. Places founded by evil white people.

Lewis Hamilton primary residence is in Monaco, where he has lived for many years. In addition to his home in Monte Carlo, he also owns properties in other locations, including a residence in Colorado, USA, which he has described as his place to escape and relax.

  • Monaco: Primary home (Monte Carlo).
  • Colorado, USA: Vacation/retreat home.

He has also previously lived in Switzerland.

Gezza England
Gezza England
1 month ago

He had to move to Switzerland to escape all the media interest in him that disturbed his quiet private life of being seen at swanky West End parties, functions and venues – nothing to do with taxes…honestly.

transmissionofflame
1 month ago
Reply to  Gezza England

Indeed
He would have had even less attention in Africa

soundofreason
soundofreason
1 month ago

Lewis Hamilton: Africa Must Unite and Take Control Back From the British

Yep. A good start would be to ignore Miliband and start mining coal, drilling for oil and building refineries and power stations. Then they can fuel Hamilton’s F1 cars among so many other things.

Mogwai
1 month ago

Totally off-topic but this has just been unofficially released and shared by ex-Met Police Federation Chairman: Rick Prior, who we are all familiar with by now. He’s named all three PFEW senior figures that were arrested for corruption, and have since been released on conditional bail. We know about CEO Mukund Krishna. The other two are Calum Macleod and Alex Duncan, the National Secretary. Here’s his post which includes a screenshot where he lists the names;

”Dear PFEW HQ,

To remove any potential excuse that no internal complaint has been received in relation to the three arrested individuals under investigation by CoL Police, please see the below, which is a screenshot of the formal complaint I have just sent to your Ethics, Standards and Performance Committee.”

https://x.com/mpfchairman/status/2029527508199338081

For the record, this is what Macleod and Duncan look like;

https://pfewevents.azurewebsites.net/speakers/calum-macleod

https://policeprofessional.com/news/pfew-confirms-new-national-secretary/

Now, what was that about ”low IQ Asian immigrants in positions of power” being more likely to be corrupt? Anyone would think corruption was colour blind looking at these guys, right?🧐😏

Talltone
Talltone
1 month ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You’ve made your point, Mogwai, but I still smell DEI with the CEO appointment, someone with no experience of policing. As for the other two, a loyal adherence to unmitigated wokery may explain their appointments.

Mogwai
1 month ago
Reply to  Talltone

You may or may not be right, we’ll never know. Much like Krishna and others like him will never know if that’s why they were hired either, which is the shame of it, because women and non-white candidates will forever be looked on with suspicion and judged differently due to this DEI crapola.
Certainly with regards to this site, in my experience it goes a little something like this;

Coloured person in senior position who behaves badly – “DEI hire!”, racist comments ensue.

Woman in senior position who behaves badly – “DEI hire!”, sexist comments ensue.

White man in senior position who behaves badly – 🦗🦗 or: blame the nearest coloured person/woman.

Them’s the rules, seemingly.

transmissionofflame
1 month ago

Yeah it so was united before “colonialism”.

Expanding on his theme, Europe should unite and take back control from non-Europeans and those Europeans who want to abolish Europe as anything other than a geographical region.

Heretic
Heretic
1 month ago

Splendid idea, Transmission!

transmissionofflame
1 month ago
Reply to  Heretic

Maybe Hamilton could take all the money he has made driving cars designed and built by non-Africans, sponsored by non-Africans, and go and live in “Africa” and start up an African motor racing competition featuring African drivers, cars designed and built in “Africa” by “Africans”. I am sure it would be a roaring success.

Purpleone
1 month ago

Apparently they’ve looked at African GP’s over many years, however the backers of these were so crooked it even worried the F1 mob… and that’s saying something

fieldea1
fieldea1
1 month ago

i think his brain has become addled from going round in circles too much.

Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
1 month ago
Reply to  fieldea1

And his job drives him round the bend.

Marcus Aurelius knew
1 month ago
Reply to  fieldea1

I wonder, has he turned left more, or right more?

Old Arellian
Old Arellian
1 month ago
Reply to  fieldea1

Doesn’t bode well for 2TK then, what with all the u turns……

Gezza England
Gezza England
1 month ago

Hmm….not sure I am interested in what a man who dresses like a pimp or drug dealer has to say.

Ozone
Ozone
1 month ago

I’m sure the millions of starving Africans will appreciate their governments spending billions of pounds on a racing track for millionaires to drive around.

Tonka Fairy
1 month ago

Hamilton and his ilk are playing with fire.

There are many ethno-nationals who agree with him: Africa is for the Africans, non-Africans should get out, Europe is for the Europeans, non-Europeans should get out.

Mrs.Croc
Mrs.Croc
1 month ago

What a complete t** he is. Half African my entire backside.
He is of African ancestry on his fathers side and of English ancestry on his mothers and born British.
Im fed up with people using their skin colour as a way of being perpetual victims.
Africa is the way it is because they refuse to give up tribalism.
The entitled and often extremely rich people with black ancestry are a tribe unto themselves.
their idea of being an African is to dress up in corn rows and kunti cloth chanting like Africans on European films.
its not impressing any Africans who were actually born and live there.
He sounds like another one who got a degree from a British university on how to be a professional black man.

Heretic
Heretic
1 month ago
Reply to  Mrs.Croc

No, he is completely CORRECT in saying he is “Half African”, because he is talking about his ETHNICITY, not his nationality. Like the horrid Meghan Markle, he is half Ethnic African and half Ethnic European. David Lammy, Lenny Henry and Olukemi Olufunto are Ethnic Africans.

Monro
1 month ago

Brilliant! Just picking myself up off the floor…helpless tears of mirth…

Great plan, champ!

Would love to see you and the F1 circus at Breedon Everard Raceway, Zimbabwe’s most famous racing circuit at Bulawayo. Have to change the name, of course. How about naming it after the famous Uncle Bob Mugabe, that noted kleptocrat and mass murderer. I mean,hey, what’s a few thousand dead bodies (circa 20,000, search ‘Operation Gukurahundi’, massacred and buried nearby) between friends when you can go racing!

Enjoy!

Free Lemming
1 month ago

Good driver, but a total prick. No more to say really.

pgstokes
pgstokes
1 month ago

He’s a talented driver. That doesn’t mean he’s a genius.

sskinner
1 month ago

He must have been reading China Daily – That CCP propaganda rag goes on and on about British colonialism as if it is carrying on today, and of course it was only ever terrible, AND, the UK is wealthy today because of colonialsim. Why is there nothing to counter the anti-British/Western propaganda from the CCP?

Finbar
Finbar
1 month ago

I mean, there’s not even a single African country that’s ‘united’ with their own people let alone uniting across africa… Student politics..

Marcus Aurelius knew
1 month ago

Stick to the driving, young fella mi lad.

Purpleone
1 month ago

He ain’t that young now…

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
1 month ago

What a plonker.

Sparrowhawk
1 month ago

Why simply keep quiet and conceal the fact that you’re a dickhead, when you can open your stupid mouth and broadcast it worldwide?

Loftier
Loftier
1 month ago

Half African? How far back does he want to go on that one or does Lewis think just being black makes you African?

Jack Charlton’s Ireland football side used to get a bit of stick back in the day because of the tenuous link many of the squad had to the Emerald Isle. Plastic Paddies they were often referred to in the media.

Is there a similar term for people trying to claim African heritage for professional or political advantage? I remember Michael Jackson trying this a few years back. The continent was not impressed.

Heretic
Heretic
1 month ago
Reply to  Loftier

Hamilton is correct in claiming that he is HALF AFRICAN, because he is talking about his ETHNICITY, not NATIONALITY.

His Ethnicity is half Ethnic African and half Ethnic European, like the Obnoxious Meghan Markle. Michael Jackson was fully Ethnic African, like all of his brothers and family.

Myra
1 month ago

And Belgium…

RTSC
RTSC
1 month ago

Ignorant git, isn’t he.

Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 month ago

In over 2000 years, the indigenous black people on the continent of Africa never built or launched a single seaworthy boat to allow them to escape Africa. There was not a single two storey building built, just basic huts made with wood straw or stones. Not a single statue was erected to an influential black person. It was only when the dreaded white man arrived did that change. They don’t act or think or create as white people do. That statement was made by a black priest. 

Rusty123
Rusty123
1 month ago

Tell you what wants to play silly beggars, how about Africa takes all its people back?, cant move round here for them, and sick to death of paying for them, thats how great “Africa” is, traitorous prick, his mother must be so ashamed of him.

Bloss
Bloss
1 month ago

Self-important numpty, wouldn’t pay attention to anything he says. I expect plastic Kim put him up to it.

JXB
JXB
1 month ago

So bu**er off to Africa Lewis and help them.

jimshall
jimshall
1 month ago

It’s the multinational corporations who are exploiting Africa as they equally exploit us when they can eg pharma’s covid scam.African governments need to become less corrupt (as does UK) and regulate their activities.

CrisBCTnew
1 month ago

The British seven-time world champion, who described himself as “half-African”

Untrue. His father is from the Caribbean and his mother is British.

Heretic
Heretic
1 month ago
Reply to  CrisBCTnew

HAMILTON IS CORRECT in claiming that he is HALF AFRICAN, because he is talking about his ETHNICITY, not NATIONALITY or BIRTHPLACE.

It doesn’t matter where on earth Hamilton was born, or where on earth his Ethnic African father was born, or where his Ethnic European mother was born.

BIRTHPLACE IS IRRELEVANT to Ethnicity.

Hamilton’s Ethnicity is HALF ETHNIC AFRICAN and half Ethnic European, like the Obnoxious Meghan Markle.

So all the Ethnic African Birth Tourists of various NATIONALITIES, for example, who arrive 9 months pregnant at Heathrow and take a taxi straight to the nearest NHS hospital, to give birth and then claim their Ethnic African child is “English” or “British”, are making FALSE CLAIMS.

Heretic
Heretic
1 month ago
Reply to  Heretic

Cliff Richard, for example, was born in India to English parents, but HE IS NOT ETHNIC INDIAN !!! “Cliff Richard was born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940 at King George’s Hospital, Victoria Street, in Lucknow, which was then part of British India. His parents were Rodger Oscar Webb, a manager for a catering contractor that serviced the Indian Railways [a wonderful British gift to India], and the former Dorothy Marie Dazely” [an English surname from the 12th century].  His parents wisely decided to move back to Britain with their children after the violent Muslim riots called “Direct Action Day”. “Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a “direct action” using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Riots and Great Calcutta Killings, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta.” In order to stop the bloodshed, the British carved out two huge chunks of Indian territory and gave them to Muslims to set up their own Ethno & Religious States in Pakistan & Bangladesh, (just like Israel). And then millions of Pakistani & Bangladeshi Muslims… Read more »