Geography Archives: Africa

Sudan’s Communists hope that their “comrades in the world Communist movement will answer that call,” Saied said, and “do whatever they can to build an international movement to help win peace in Sudan and open the path for our people to decide our own future, free of interference and war.

After restoring the France-backed regime of Patrice Talon following a coup, foreign troops have remained in Benin, maintaining control over the Presidential residence and several key government buildings.

The UAE’s backing of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces casts a long shadow over Canada’s push for new markets in the Middle East.

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.

China’s zero-tariff policy for African countries is also part of its socialist internationalist commitment to strengthening economic ties and promoting industrial investment that supports local production in Africa.

In a symbolic joining of older and contemporary struggles against apartheid, Francesca Albanese delivered the Nelson Mandela lecture this autumn. Did her address manage to bury the fiction of the ‘liberal world order’ once and for all?

TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legendary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI.

Backed by foreign powers, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a bloody war with devastating consequences for the Sudanese people.

A deep exploration of Cabral’s and Rodney’s thoughts on the petty bourgeoisie and class struggles in Africa.

A new book on Canada’s role in the destruction of Libya should embarrass the NDP and prompt members to ask tough questions of leadership candidates.

David Hundeyin is a Nigerian investigative journalist, bestselling author, and founder of West Africa Weekly, an independent Pan-African digital news publication focusing on West Africa and the Sahel region.

Commemorating the anniversary of Operación Carlota is not simply an act of historical recovery.

Trump threatens to go into Nigeria ‘guns-a-blazing’ over attacks on Christians.

In countries like Senegal, the IMF has been complicit with irregular debt practices and fraudulent accounting in order to undermine sovereignty and favour multinational corporations.

The World Bank’s 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa. Urging trade liberalisation, it promised growth from agriculture.

In this piece, Brian Mathenge pays tribute to Pio Gama Pinto, a journalist and freedom fighter with a dedication to the ideals of an equal society. Pinto was tragically killed 60 years ago, during a time when he vehemently opposed the class stratification, inequalities and oppression which endured from colonial to postcolonial Kenya.

Despite critiques that point out lack of market regulation, poor climate performance of markets, the social inequalities they reinforce and generate, and misuse/manipulation by actors uninterested in climate mitigation, VCMs are being considered as useful instruments for gender-sensitive climate change policy.

In her thought-provoking blog, Celiwe Mxhalisa shines light on how capitalism has moved beyond exploiting natural resources to commodifying its own waste and pollution. This shift has created a new form of exploited labour, termed “counter-productive labour,” exemplified by recycle-for-pay activities that extract value from the dross of capitalist production. Mxhalisa views this new exploitation as a harbinger of doom, intensifying the incoherence of a system that produces more rubbish than goods in the name of profit.

The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of “nature-based solutions,” corporations like the Gates Foundation are pushing schemes that will turn the continent into a carbon sink for the world’s worst polluters.

In celebration of Fanon’s centenary, we repost an interview with the Tunisian sociologist, Frej Stambouli who remembers his teacher Frantz Fanon.