Africa
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PLO Lumumba: Macron Is Raiding Africa Again | France, Kenya & The New Scramble
In this powerful episode of PLO Lumumba Explain, Prof. PLO Lumumba breaks down Emmanuel Macron’s renewed push into Africa, especially through Kenya, Angola, South Africa, and other countries that were not historically part of France’s colonial empire. Continue reading
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Françafrique 2.0: Macron, Multipolarity, and the Quiet Reassembly of Empire
A French president’s interruption at a Nairobi summit exposed more than diplomatic arrogance; it revealed the lingering psychology of empire dressed in the language of “equal partnership.” Behind the spectacle of green investment pledges and startup rhetoric lies a deeper struggle over African sovereignty, debt dependency, military influence, and the geopolitical restructuring of imperial power… Continue reading
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Mali faces the hybrid terrorist hydra
Paris is mobilizing its Atlanticist allies, manipulating its Ukrainian proxies, and activating mercenaries in the sub-region to project a total hybrid war. Under the guise of the terrorist hydra, a coordinated destabilization strategy is attempting to shatter Bamako’s sovereignty. Continue reading
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Gold, Lithium, and the Chains of Empire: Zimbabwe, China, and the Battle to Break the Colonial Economy
The imperial press calls Zimbabwe’s recovery “bizarre,” revealing more about empire’s ideology than Africa’s reality. Beneath the headlines lies a material transformation driven by gold, lithium, labor, and survival within a system built to constrain it. As Zimbabwe pushes toward beneficiation and partners with China, it enters a global struggle over who controls resources, industry,… Continue reading
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Senegal on the Edge of Collapse: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2026)
Thursday, 26 March 2026 — The Tricontinental Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt. Continue reading
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Digital extraction and the new logic of underdevelopment
Africa’s incorporation into global capitalism has never been neutral. From the Atlantic slave trade through colonial rule and into the post-independence era, the continent has been structurally positioned as a source of value for others rather than a site of autonomous accumulation. What is often misunderstood is not whether this extractive logic has ended, but… Continue reading
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African problems, African solutions: Traoré’s Burkina Faso sets the tone for a new African policy
Ibrahim Traoré’s act leaves its mark on the international scene and reaffirms once again that Africa is and must be fully African. Continue reading
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Lobito and the Long Arm of Empire: Europe’s Green Transition Runs on African Land, Labor, and Life
How the EU’s “model corridor” revives the colonial blueprint under the banner of sustainability— and how African workers, communities, and global movements are fighting back. Continue reading
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Unite or Perish: Kwame Nkrumah’s Final Warning to a Fragmented Africa
Only African unity—political, economic, and military—can overthrow the neocolonial regime. Nkrumah saw the future. The question is whether we’re ready to fight for it. Continue reading
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Solar Sovereignty and the Silent Rebellion of the Global South
Africa’s rooftop revolution is not a side effect of climate policy—it’s a crack in empire’s circuitry. Fueled by Chinese supply chains and working-class necessity, solar panels are becoming tools of delinking. No loans, no permission, no Western oversight—just light, autonomy, and insurgent infrastructure. This isn’t a transition. It’s a threat. And the sun can’t be… Continue reading
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State Department Shuts down African Stream with Ahmed Kaballo
In this exclusive MintCast episode, former CEO of African Stream Ahmed Kaballo and senior staff writer Alan McLeod dissect the US government’s campaign to silence African Stream, the pan-African media platform that reached 30-40 million monthly viewers with unfiltered reporting on Africa’s resistance to imperialism. Continue reading
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Media-Kenyans’ Divide over Michael Langley and Usefulness of The US Africa Command (AFRICOM)
On May 27 and 28, 2025, General Michael Langley addressed the Kenyan public through media interviews, partly to mitigate the negative impact of AFRICOM’s image after he antagonized Burkina Faso’s president, causing an uproar among young Africans earlier in April. Continue reading
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How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)
At the start of 2025, Sudan registered an alarming debt-to-GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio of 252%. This means that the country’s total public debt is 2.5 times the size of its entire annual economic output. It is not hard to understand why Sudan is in such dire straits: as we outlined in last week’s newsletter,… Continue reading
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The Colonial past haunts French Military operations in Africa
Popular backlash against France’s brutal yet ineffective counter-terrorism operations is compelling President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw forces from across Africa. Last November, Senegal and Chad humiliated Macron by demanding base closures, only days after his personal envoy unveiled plans to shore up his slipping foothold.[1] Recently, the Ivory Coast ousted about 1,000 French soldiers, compounding… Continue reading
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Why Washington is Worried About Burkina Faso’s Young Revolutionary Leader
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation, and in the process, making enemies in the West. Since taking power in 2022, the young military leader has expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, and aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela. Continue reading
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The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s advances on the continent. Some Senators expressed concern that Trump had dispensed with the… Continue reading
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What Correctly Defines Pan-Africanism in 2025 and Beyond
Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms. For some, its current meaning is defined as unity between all people of African descent across the world. For others, Pan-Africanism is an ideology defined by nebulous elements of the type of unity previously described. For still many… Continue reading
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The free Africa should not let down its guard with the West
Regardless of all the mottos and new approaches, the truly sovereign and independent countries of Africa should not let down their guard in the fight against the West; on the contrary, they should try harder to displace Western interests from the continent. Continue reading
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Scraps of Paper, Enduring Chains: Africa and the Legacy of Western Treaties
For centuries treaties have exploited Africa. From the Papal Bull, issued by Pope Nicolas V to the ICC Treaty, the West has played a significant role in dictating the terms of Africa’s international engagement. Continue reading
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Somaliland: British Colony, Palestinian Concentration Camp?
In recent months, Somaliland has become a subject of intense, unprecedented interest for the Western media. As Israeli and US officials scramble to find a destination to forcibly relocate Gaza’s population from their shattered homeland, the little-acknowledged, unrecognised breakaway statelet is increasingly viewed as an attractive option. Multiple mainstream media reports indicate officials in Tel… Continue reading
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