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    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.

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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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    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.

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    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.

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    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 universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.

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    Harry Magdoff | Monthly Review Volume 45 Number 5 October 1993 | MR Online

    In this reprise from October 1993, Henry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: “Isn’t there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works?”

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