Latest Africa
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Bond: Wallerstein expanded the South African independent left’s horizons
In establishing a strategic approach to these big-picture problems, which we continue to face in South Africa, no one I know embraced scale-politics better, with more seriousness and historical reach, and with such a long-range, compassionate future viewpoint, than Immanuel Wallerstein
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Cole: Chadwick Boseman’s Wakanda: Afro-Futurism is in the Present
In one of his many achievements, Boseman (along with the MCU creative team) deployed the tropes of science fiction to create new images of Africa, but African scientific and technological advance is in the present
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Prashad: Only the Struggle of the People Will Free the Country
Source: Tricontinental On 18 August, soldiers from the Kati barracks...
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Bond: World Bank’s rating obsession will negate debt justice
The World Bank and IMF continue squeezing poor countries on behalf of commercial lenders, failing to provide the debt cancellations desperately needed.
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Podur: America’s Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
Joe Emersberger interviewed Justin Podur regarding his new book about a conflict few understand thanks to, among other things, “Africanist” scholars.
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Chigumadzi: In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
Unless the Zimbabwean state stops its looting, intimidation and suppression of dissent and finally responds to the needs of its people, it will soon face its greatest threat yet
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Sjursen: The U.S. Wants to Play Powerbroker in a Fight Over the Nile River
The Nile River dispute highlights humanity’s dilemma in microcosm: the crisis demands fresh transnational unity, but old geo- (and hydro-) politics continue to predominate
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Engler: Canada doesn’t deserve African support for Security Council bid
African countries should not fall for Justin Trudeau’s friendly rhetoric. Until Canada begins to act like a friend, rather than a neocolonial power, it doesn’t deserve Africa’s votes for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council
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Sjursen: What on Earth Is the U.S. Doing by Bombing Somalia?
Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports. At stake are many thousands of lives
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Lerner: Africa’s Exploding Plastic Nightmare
As Africa Drowns in Garbage, the Plastics Business Keeps Booming
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Sovereignty Network: A call from North Africa: sovereignty over our land, food and destiny
The only solution before us is unity and solidarity in order to build a new world in which people’s sovereignty, democracy and social justice prevail
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Baroud: Solidarity in the Age of Coronavirus: What the Arabs Must Do
Let COVID-19 be that opportunity that will allow all nations, especially in the Middle East, to take a stance against war, hunger and disease, to share their wealth and to extend the hand of solidarity to Africa and our historic allies throughout the world
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Turse: Pentagon’s Map Contradicts Its Claim of “Light” Footprint
These formerly secret documents, created by the Pentagon’s Africa Command and obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, offer an exclusive window into the footprint of American military operations in Africa
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Lichtenstein: A year of flipping scripts and changing narratives in Africa
A year of revolutions. Internet shutdowns. Massive tree-planting. A year of migration. Feminist uprisings. Jailed journalists. Cyclones and climate change. A year of opposition rising. Cultural icons dying. Illness, crisis and cures.
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Cole: Americans Slept while Street Revolts Reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Algeria
All four of these popular revolts caused a sitting prime minister or president to step down
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Nakate: Uganda’s First Fridays for Future Climate Striker
I wanted to do something that would cause change to the lives of the people in my community and my country”
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Nketiah: ‘God Has A New Africa’
Undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’
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Haidar: Decades of Peaceful Resistance
For over three decades, Aminatou Haidar has led a peaceful campaign to resist the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, which is often called Africa’s last colony
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Young people and the non-violent revolution
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Wilmot: Imprisoned Ugandan academic urges ‘no revolution without a feminist revolution’
Stella Nyanzi refuses to let Ugandan women be spectators in the struggle to end a 30-year dictatorship
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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Baroud: Tearing Down the Idols of Colonialism: Why Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology
Tunisia, and many African countries, must demand a French apology. By doing so, they declare “loudly and intelligibly” that they are finally free from the “white man’s (selfish and racist) values,” and that they truly see themselves as equal
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Prashad: Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face
At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen
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Burrowes: Our Vanishing World: Rainforests
In essence, you have a choice: understand and act on the crucial importance of rainforests before we destroy their integrity and lose them completely. Or help to accelerate the human rush to extinction as a consequence of failing to do so
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Bond: South Africa Searches for a Financial Parachute
An open, frank public discussion about the IMF’s regrettable history and current agenda is sorely needed
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Fletcher: Zohra Drif’s Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
In her actions as a militant, Drif casts aside the romanticization of revolution
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Bond: Africa’s Systematic Looting
Last year, the Bank appointed Zambia the main pilot country study within the project “Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services
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Bond: G20: A Threat to Africa?
while once preaching isolationism, Trump has already expanded hectic, albeit low-profile, Africa Command interventions from the Maghreb across the Sahel to the Horn
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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.
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...
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: Taylor Trial Concludes; Judges Begin Deliberations
As the trial of Charles Taylor is comes to a...
Egypt
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Cole: Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World?
Egypt is one of the countries most vulnerable to the climate emergency and global heating
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Cole: Trump asked of Egypt’s al-Sisi, ‘Where’s my Favorite Dictator?’
Trump has long been accused of having a soft spot for dictators, but now he has admitted it, even if only in the form of a jest
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Hearst: Egyptian officials threatened Morsi days before death
Deposed former president was told to disband Muslim Brotherhood or face consequences in secret talks with top officials, sources tell Middle East Eye
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Fisk: Egypt’s Brutal Crackdown on Workers’ Rights
Khaled Abol Naga – an outspoken critic of the Egyptian...
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Fisk: Egypt’s President facing serious questions
Civilians and police and security forces have repeatedly been targeted in recent years
Lybia
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Prashad: Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders
It is impossible for the UN to move an agenda if two important Western states who drove the NATO war against Libya in 2011 end up backing both sides; in fact, it is wrong to say that they back both sides, because by blocking condemnation of Haftar’s war, they back Haftar
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Fetouri: The consequences of Turkish boots on the ground in Libya
Having Turkish boots on the ground in Libya is likely to intensify the proxy war in the country
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Cockburn: The Battle for Libyan city of Derna
Coastal city is renegade general's last major target in east of country, where water, food, medicine and electricity are already running out
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Prashad: The US-NATO Invasion of Libya Destroyed the Country Beyond All Recognition
Libya is ruled by a patchwork of rival heavily armed gangs that have sown terror in the population
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Baroud: War to Stop War: Libya’s Operation Odyssey Lightning
The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East