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  • Photo courtesy of Mathare Social Justice Centre. The sign in the foreground reads “water is life.”

    When economists shut off your water

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on December 11, 2023 by Jethron Akallah, Adrian Wilson, Faith Kasina and Irene Nduta (more by Africa is a Country)  | (Posted Dec 16, 2023)

    Access to water in Nairobi is horribly unequal. The World Bank, Nairobi Water Company, and development economists exploited this unjust context to treat poor Kenyans like guinea pigs.

  • Text: Imperialism in Africa.

    The new imperialism’s strange bedfellows

    Originally published: Africa is a Country on July 29, 2022 by Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (more by Africa is a Country)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2022)

    Africa’s political liberation and economic emancipation can’t be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.

  • Photo by berenice melis on Unsplash

    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.

  • Image credit PWRDF via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0.

    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.

    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.

    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.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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