Geography Archives: Africa

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.

The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa‘s size. Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America […]

While China brings electricity, roads, and rail to the Global South, the imperial left brings its measuring tape—only to weep over wage gaps. But whose gap are they really mourning? And in whose name?

BRICS+ is contradictory, uneven, and fragile—but in its openings, the Global South carves space for sovereignty and struggle Multipolarity Emerges from Crisis, Not Consensus The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it […]

Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history–can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?

Though they died young, revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon and Patrice Lumumba made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles.

The Canadian branch of B’nai B’rith has accused author, activist, and political candidate Yves Engler of genocide denial.

Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy.

Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government’s attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.

How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.

On the morning of January 21, 1960, 431 black and six white coal miners were entombed in a sudden collapse at Clydesdale Collieries near Coalbrook in Sasolburg, Free State Province.[1] The first rockfall took place at about 4:30 p.m. No one was killed or severely injured. While the rock still creaked and split, many of […]

How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More.

African Stream’s Pan-African, anti-imperialist journalistic perspectives made it the target of a state that colludes with corporate media to spread war propaganda.