Saturday, 8 January 2022 — Africa is a Country
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- Alex Park
The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?
Woman walks by the rather large vibrant mural dedicated to Patrice Lumumba, political leader who brought freedom to the Congo, in L.A.’s Leimert Park. Photo credit Joey Zanotti via Flickr CC BY 2.0.
In 1958, a year after it achieved independence from colonial rule, Ghana hosted a conference of African leaders, the first such gathering to ever take place on the continent. At the invitation of Ghana’s newly elected prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, more than 300 leaders from 28 territories across Africa attended, including Patrice Lumumba of the still-Belgian Congo and Frantz Fanon, who was then living in still-French Algeria. It was a time of unlimited potential for a group of people determined to chart a new course for their homelands. But the host wanted his guests not to forget the dangers ahead of them. “Do not let us also forget that colonialism and imperialism may come to us yet in a different guise—not necessarily from Europe.”
Ethiopian troops vanquish US-backed Tigray rebels (File photo)
Tailors busy stitching Russian flags to meet rising demand in Bamako, the capital of Mali, December 26, 2021
President Joe Biden continues to play the cluelessly racist and paternalistic 
The majority of the Congolese population doesn’t have access to electricity. (Eduardo Soteras, AFP via Getty Images)
Today’s global energy inequities are staggering.
Circa 1915: American naval officers and marines from the USS Washington come ashore for the capture of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. (Photograph by Getty Images)
Walter Rodney
Some of AFRICOM’s known permanent and semi-permanent military bases on the African continent, 2019.
This important article by Colin Todhunter published more than five years ago (on January 21, 2016) analyses how the Gates Foundation had contributed to exacerbating social inequalities and “uprooting indigenous agriculture for the benefit of global agribusiness”.
The New Dark Age 