Latest Africa
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Sinwell: The Spirit of Marikana
The rise of insurgent trade unionism in South Africa — an excerpt
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Wallerstein: South Africa’s ANC Is Slipping Away
South Africa has now shifted from a democratic model that it has claimed to be, to being a center of internal turmoil of a sort that might be difficult to label as democratic.
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Savoulian: Obama’s Africa policy – an expanding military footprint to grab resources
The United States, while portraying its intervention in Africa as an anti-terrorist exercise, is actually the main purveyor of political destabilisation and violence
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Masanga: Unemployed graduates protest lack of opportunity in Zimbabwe
Dozens of university graduates in Zimbabwe are taking to the streets in their full graduation regalia under a protest named #ThisGown
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Hamouchene: Tunisia: on the frontlines of the struggle against climate change
Kerkennah islanders are faced with a double threat to their existence: rising sea water levels and the extractive operations of fossil fuel companies
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Al-Bulushi: The Roots of Ebola
A long history of multinational corporate exploitation and political corruption crippled West Africa’s response to the Ebola epidemic
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Malik: Nigerian officials grow rich on the hunger of the poor
Endemic corruption in Nigeria’s camps for the internally displaced
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Bond: Bill Gates’ silver-bullet misfiring at the Mandela Memorial Lecture
Gates specialises in top-down technicist quick-fixes – ‘silver bullets’ – which often backfire on the economic shooting range of extreme corporate influence and neoliberal policies
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Knight: Report Shows How War Profiteers Are Now Refugee Profiteers, Too
Arms dealers flood war-torn Middle East with weapons and then lobby EU to militarize borders against refugees—profiting from both ends of conflict
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Cockburn: The Age of Disintegration
Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World
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Bond: Flight of corporate profits poses biggest threat to South Africa’s economy
The only short-term solution is a radical tightening of exchange controls against corporations and wealthy individuals
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AFRICOM Clams Up After Commander Peddles Contradictory Statements to Congress
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Hillary Clinton’s State Department Gave South Sudan’s Military a Pass for Its Child Soldiers
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Rhodesia is no more, having been renamed Zimbabwe after it...
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Bond: Protests rise against World Economic Forum’s implausible ‘Africa Keeps Rising’ meme
Grassroots protesters all over Africa are questioning the logic of export-led ‘growth’ and renewed fiscal austerity, instead demanding that policies meet their basic needs
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Kamal: Climate: Africa’s Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
“No continent will be struck as severely by the impacts of climate change as Africa”
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Street: Kagame Goes to Harvard
A recent event at the pinnacle of “liberal” academia offers a depressing epitome of the cold moral obliviousness and imperial complicity that marks U.S. higher education
Books on Africa
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Donohoe: Public Health and Social Justice
see http://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-reader/
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Hudson: Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change
'This is an excellent new work and a must read...
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Marqusee: Street Music: poems by Mike Marqusee
The poems, including the long sequence, “Multiple Myeloma, a suite”,...
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Lee: Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition
"Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the...
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Milstein: Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism
Consisting of ten collaborative picture-essays that weave Cindy Milstein’s poetic...
ZMag Africa
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Never underestimate the global myopia and indifference that lurks beneath the surface of the United States’ supposedly Leftist higher educational system
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Coleman-Adebayo: “Negroes Need Not Apply:” The EU-Africa Malta Conference
Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, offers the solution of pouring “hundreds of millions in additional aid into Africa to try to discourage hundreds of thousands of people from heading to the EU.”
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Woldemariam: Caring About Animals, Dehumanizing African Asylum Seekers
What is yet to enter the public discourse is Western complicity for the circumstances that generate refugees. The contributions of the U.S.-British "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq and the U.S.-British-French "Mission Accomplished" in Libya to the refugee exodus is rarely acknowledged.
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Visram: Greek Austerity & African Patronage
The current situation in Greece resembles the debt peonage that many African countries have been subjected to for decades. They suffered the consequences of the so-called structural adjustment under the supervision of the international finance institutions and the result was economic and social devastation.
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Reviews by Jeremy Kuzmarov, Edward S. Herman, and Jane Slaughter
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Fasfalis: Mandela Between Fact and Fiction
There are many ways in which the capitalist rulers of...
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Glazebrook: The African Union, Algeria, and Mali
Africa’s classic depiction in the mainstream media as a giant...
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Glazebrook: Libya, Africa, and AFRICOM: An Ongoing Disaster
The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on Libya by...
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Berkowitz: Invisible Children: A Trojan Horse for the Religious Right
In early March, the organization Invisible Children burst onto the...
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Petermann: UN Climate Conference
This year’s UN Climate Conference of the Parties (COP-17) in...
Africa Video
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Abu-Manneh: What’s Happening in Egypt?
What's happening in Egypt these days — and in Tunisia...
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Tighe Barry, a US activist with Code Pink, who has been...
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Dixon: The Beginning of Apartheid’s End – the 20th Anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Ceremonies in several African countries and the Caribbean this week...
Africa Audio
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Abu-Manneh: What’s Happening in Egypt?
What's happening in Egypt these days — and in Tunisia...
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Tighe Barry, a US activist with Code Pink, who has been...
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Dixon: The Beginning of Apartheid’s End – the 20th Anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Ceremonies in several African countries and the Caribbean this week...
Blogs on Africa
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Fitz: Health Care in a Global Environment
It is possible to provide health care much more cheaply...
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
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Wilson: Oxfam on Corn/Climate/Hunger: One-Horned Analysis Lacks Farm Bill Macro Solutions
I’ve started tweeting, and I’ve been running into a lot...
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addict: Interview with William Penn University’s Statesmen Status on Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
The following are my answers to a list of questions...
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: Why Insurance companies and Western Navies Love Somali Pirates
On the 11th October the BBC’s defence corespondent Caroline Wyatt...
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Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
Egypt
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Falk: Aftermath of Political Ruptures: Iran, Egypt, Turkey
Comparing these political ruptures is instructive with respect to grasping what works and what fails when it comes to transformative politics that are variously engineered from below, from above, from without
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Al-Arian: Three years after the coup, lessons still unlearned from Egypt’s tragedy
The calamity of Egypt continues to unfold daily
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Cole: Thousands protest Gov’t in Egypt over Saudi Hegemony
Thousands of Egyptians came into the streets Friday in the first major demonstrations in 2 and a half years, to protest the bestowal of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir on Saudi Arabia
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Prashad: The Arab Spring Must Go Through Riyadh
“Thought only sees in reality what a specific formation shows...
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Regeni: In Egypt, a second life for independent trade unions
Union members in a crowded assembly hall lashed out against the Egyptian regime’s latest efforts to suppress workers
Lybia
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Prashad: It’s Bombs Away for the USA in Libya
Almost guaranteed to spread more misery across North Africa
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Militias have had a free run of the country and the entry of the I.S. has only led to a worsening of the violence, arson and mayhem that have been the order of the day
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Boardman: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, Again
The Paris attacks make further escalations harder to resist, if not politically inevitable and politically all but impossible to oppose. But opposition must arise from somewhere if we are ever to break out of this spiral of violence that has led only downward for more than a decade.
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Pilger: From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves”
ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against humanity
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Prashad: The detritus of regime change in Libya
Four years ago, as NATO prepared to bomb Libya, I...