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The Pope has once again spoken out against wars and the economic plundering of Africa. The Vatican has been making free elections its hobbyhorse for some time now and has taken a stand against the aggression suffered by members of the LGBT community.
This is the fourth time the Pope has (...)
As a result of a consumerist economic model, rich countries are faced with an ever-increasing mass of waste. To process it cheaply, the temptation is to ship them to Africa with serious environmental and health consequences for the people.
A few weeks ago, Spanish customs put an end to an (...)
The FAO is sounding the alarm on the food crisis. Humanitarian NGOs, including OXFAM, say in a statement that it is “the worst situation in a decade” and Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General, speaks of a “hurricane of famines”.
In this global food crisis, Africa remains the most vulnerable (...)
In early March the United Nation’s General Assembly voted on a resolution demanding Russia immediately stop its military operations in Ukraine.
Out of 193 member states, 141 voted in support of the resolution, five voted against, 35 abstained and 12 didn’t vote at all. Of the 54 African member (...)
The invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s army will have consequences for Africa. The most obvious risk is that of an economic and food crisis which risks hitting the continent head-on. This invasion also highlights political ruptures, particularly in France’s African backyard, which illustrate its (...)
The relationship between Africa and China hinges on the question of cooperation and development. Kristin Plys, Amenophis Lô and Abdulhamid Mohamed ask if we should celebrate this relationship as the South-South development that the Global South dreamed of in the mid-20th century, or are (...)
Kremlin officials are offering arms and military services deals in exchange for diplomatic support and mineral extraction contracts
Russia is engaged in a frantic new scramble for influence in Africa, which is being spearheaded by a rash of military cooperation and arms deals signed across the (...)
The movie’s narrative dictates the terms of black people’s responses to systematic violence. It does this by critically examining the imagery and story around ancestral connections. The movie is used to craft a modern colonial imagination of Africa’s future.
This past weekend I went to watch (...)
In the third in a series of blogs for roape.net, writer and activist Lee Wengraf exposes some of the myths about corruption in Africa. The notion of “African corruption” persists despite the reality of widespread and established practices of illicit activity in the West, and, crucially, the (...)
In the face of multiple crises of profit-driven socio-economic systems that have driven millions of people in Africa into hopeless poverty, the urgent questions of our time are quite clear: How do we change the balance of class forces in favour of the working class? What are the radical reforms (...)
For years, American military expansion in Africa has gone largely unnoticed, thanks to a deliberate effort to keep the public in the shadows.
In the shadows of what was once called the “Dark Continent,” a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design. But look (...)
The decolonization that began in the 1940s was essentially a passage towards neocolonialism, a mutation of the former colonies, a reconfiguration of the mechanisms of domination and exploitation by both the former colonial powers and other capitalists of the centre. It was necessary to adapt to (...)
The BRICS powers aren’t anti-colonial counterweights. They’re looking for new markets and resources for their corporations, just like Western countries.
Over the last few years, much has been written about the “new scramble for Africa” — the attempt by countries and companies to increase their (...)
The narrative about Africa in the international media, in particular the economic press, as well as in academic journals, is changing. It is no longer dominated by what is frequently labelled “afro-pessimism”, which allows development NGOs especially to dedicate themselves to the civilising, (...)
The popular idea of “Africa Rising” is based on claims of GDP growth rates of 5-6 per cent. But much of this is due to soaring primary commodity prices, especially in the extractive industries. Oil, for example, rose from $20 a barrel in 1999 to $145 in 2008. Although the price has fallen since, (...)
The recently Chinese-built African Union (AU) headquarters, in Addis Ababa, is a bold symbol of China’s rapidly changing role in Africa. China-African relations run as far deep as China being the biggest supporter of Africa’s anti-colonial struggle and the first to assist reconstruction efforts (...)
The officers running secret operations there have been calling Africa “the battlefield of tomorrow, today.”
The numbers tell the story: ten exercises, fifty-five operations, 481 security cooperation activities.
For years, the US military has publicly insisted that its efforts in Africa are (...)
In Senegal a manipulated ruling to allow power hungry President Abdoulaye Wade to run for a third term, in Nigeria fuel price increases that spurred a national crisis, general strikes and violent state repression, secession struggles in Mali in which scores have been killed and continued (...)
The arrogance of neoliberalism, although certainly challenged in some Latin American countries, seems to face a cooling of opposition everywhere else, as if there was an exhaustion of the “expansive wave” of the movement for global justice. What can we expect from the second World Social Forum to (...)
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