By Soumanou Salifou

Observers have predicted the brutal end of the relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, two erratic, selfish men driven by cruelty. But, arguably, not everyone can see behind Musk’s fall—which is only beginning—the spirits of the millions of children throughout the world that he has deprived of U.S. aid through food and medication by demolishing USAID at the direction of Trump. Bill Gates, a wealthy man with a big heart who has showered the world’s poor for decades with his generosity to the tune of billions of dollars, rightly said in an article that appeared in the Financial Times, “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

One needs not be religious to see that there is more to life than what eyes can see. The invisible world sometimes talks so loudly that one cannot dismiss it. Africa, the cradle of humanity and birthplace of the world’s first great civilizations, is also a fountain of spirituality.

The spirits of African children who have died because Elon Musk and Donald Trump have taken away from them much-needed U.S. food aid and medications are only beginning to haunt them.

At the close of trading on Thursday, after he traded threats and insults with his one-time friend Trump, the shares of Musk’s signature car, Tesla, dropped by 14.2% to $284.70, wiping away about $150 billion from its market value—the 11th-worst single trading day for Tesla since the company went public in 2010, according to the Associated Press.

The blood of the deceased twins of Yagana Bulama, a Nigerian mother in insurgency-ravaged Borno State, who died of malnutrition at the hand of Musk, and hundreds of others across Africa, is screaming for revenge. It will continue to do so, more and more loudly, wherever Musk goes. Let him be reminded of the famous words of the legendary boxer Joe Louis to his opponent, Billy Conn, in anticipation of their 1946 championship fight: “You can run, but you can’t hide.”

Wherever Musk looks, he will see the piercing eyes of these innocent souls, looking at him straight from the invisible world, like Abel staring at his brother Cain who killed him out of jealousy, according to the epic story in the Bible (Genesis 4:1-16).