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    Dismantling and transcending colonialism’s legacy

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on October 29, 2020 by Jimi O. Adesina (more by Africa is a Country) (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.

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    Food and the struggle for Africa’s sovereignty

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on March 30, 2021 by Jihen Chandoul (more by Africa is a Country) (Posted Sep 20, 2021)

    How early post-independence clarity on the link between food self-sufficiency and national sovereignty offers lessons for contemporary efforts.

  • | COP17 protest Johannesburg 2011 Image credit Meraj Chhaya via Flickr | MR Online

    Towards a working-class environmentalism for South Africa

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on October 28, 2019 by Carilee Osborne & Bruce Baigrie (more by Africa is a Country) (Posted Nov 10, 2019)

    It’s going take a fully democratic anti-capitalist movement to fight climate change. The case of South Africa shows how long we have to go.

  • | Samir Amin Image via Fraktion Die Linke Flickr | MR Online

    Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on December 23, 2018 (more by Africa is a Country)

    Samir Amin’s life resembled that of Karl Marx: a man without a homeland, but one whose home was a chosen commitment to a historical project.

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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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