Latest Africa
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Three inspiring activists — from Spain, UK and Kenya — share their experiences of taking on bankers and the lessons and insights from their ongoing struggles
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Baroud: Why African Countries Are Normalizing with Israel
Diplomatic ties with Chad and Mali may garner Netanyahu a few more votes next April, but they will also contribute to the Israeli illusion that it can be an international darling and an Apartheid regime, simultaneously
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Imperial vultures and sub-imperial doves both turn away from economic carcass
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Bond: In Zimbabwe, capitalist crisis + ultra-neoliberal policy = ‘Mugabesque’ authoritarianism
Once again, a formidable burst of state brutality against Zimbabwe’s citizenry has left at least a dozen corpses, scores of serious injuries, mass arrests, internet suspension and a furious citizenry
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Elnaiem: The Sudan uprising: “This is a people’s revolution”
In Sudan, a multifaceted civil opposition is posing a serious threat to the continued existence of Bashir’s dictatorial regime after weeks of protests
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Bond: Jim Yong Kim’s mixed messages to the World Bank, and the world
Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist...
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Kulkarni: After doctors, teachers launch nationwide strike in Zimbabwe
Their main demands include a rise in salary from $500 to $3000 and payment in US dollars rather than in bonds. Teachers and doctors in Zimbabwe receive among the lowest pay in the world for their professions
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Countess: Illicit Financial Flows Thwart Human Rights in Africa
Corporate malfeasance saps the African continent of billions in badly needed funds each year — and the U.S. is a top destination
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Hunt: With Nearly 400,000 Dead in South Sudan, Will the U.S. Change Policy?
It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?
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Bond: Mining conflicts multiply, as critics of ‘extractivism’ gather in Johannesburg
These sorts of Western+BRICS modes of super-exploitation exemplify the mineral, oil and gas looting underway across Africa
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Bond: South Africans peer down Trump’s world economic $#!thole
South Africa has just witnessed two major economic events which spoke volumes about the prospects for global and local capitalism
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Buxton: The Rise of Border Imperialism
Over a century after the original Scramble for Africa, European leaders are today imposing new forms of colonialism on the continent in the shape of militarized border controls
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Rachidi: Arresting the Protest
Widespread Crackdown on Dissent Undermines Morocco’s Social Movements
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Cole: Trump is becoming Dylann Roof
Washington is understandably consumed by the revelations about hush money and election interference, but the Nazification of US foreign policy should be front page news
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Turse: The U.S. is Building a $280 Million Drone Base in Niger
In the time since construction at Agadez began, U.S. military operations in North and West Africa have dramatically increased
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Bond: Africa’s pioneering Marxist political economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Samir Amin’s celebrated life was amongst the most trying, but also rewarding, of his generation’s left intelligentsia
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How Trump’s “America First” Policy Enabled Ethnic Cleansing in the DRC
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Bond: Scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric in South Africa
A ‘think tank’ is sometimes a group of people paid to...
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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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.
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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
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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Fisk: Egypt’s President facing serious questions
Civilians and police and security forces have repeatedly been targeted in recent years
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Baroud: The Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation
It should be made clear that any unity agreement that pays heed to the interest of factions at the expense of the collective good of the Palestinian people is a sham
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Shawcross: “All We are Saying”
In a recent New York Times survey only 36 percent of U.S. adults could correctly locate North Korea on an unlabelled map. Yet according to a recent poll (Chicago Council on Global Affairs) 75 percent of Americans believe that North Korea’s nuclear program is a critical threat to the United States.
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Cook: Egypt-Saudi Red Sea islands deal
Tel Aviv could use diplomatic capital gained in its approval of Tiran and Sanafir deal for support on Palestinian issue
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Essam: Egypt Silencing Independent Media
The Egyptian government’s efforts to crack down on critical media platforms reached news heights this week
Lybia
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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
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Prashad: It’s Bombs Away for the USA in Libya
Almost guaranteed to spread more misery across North Africa