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How Capitalism Is Taking Over the Global South’s Coastlines
From Lagos to Jamaica and Dakar; coastlines that once belonged to everyone are being fenced off, commercialized, and sold to the highest bidder.
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Burkina Faso to Champion Young Female Scientists
A new generation of female innovators is being heard in Burkina Faso.
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US, Switzerland & Qatar Broker “Peace” In DRC While Profiting From Crisis
8 months after US President Donald Trump brokered a “peace deal” between the DRC and Rwanda, peace in the Congo is nowhere in sight.
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What You Must Know When The U.S Offers Help.
U.S. "foreign aid" to Africa is often cited as proof that Americans foreign policy towards the Global South is somehow benevolent.
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Jason Arday and the Respectable Face of British Racism
‎British institutions love to parade Black excellence for their brochures, but the moment a Black scholar reaches the highest echelons, the knives come…
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The Somalia Affair: When Canada Proved It Was No Different From France, Belgium Or Britain
Canada, a “progressive”, “democratic”, “inclusive” Western nation that would never hurt a fly – or so its government would have you believe.
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Eritrea: The Sovereign African Nation That No One Talks About
By All-African People’s Revolutionary Party & The Spearhead
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Afriforum & March and March: Strange Bedfellows in an Unholy Union
A xenophobic movement that targets fellow Africans, claiming to fight for Black South Africans now finds common ground with ‘AfriForum’ - an…
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August 2026

Who Gave Europeans the Right to Grade African Elections?
What if the African Union announced it was sending observers to France to determine whether its 2027 presidential election was free and fair?
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The Mercator Projection And the False Narrative of African Overpopulation
The idea that Africa is “overpopulated” and that the poverty of its people is a function of geographical poverty is one of the most persistently…
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"Corrupt African Leaders" And Trump's New Policy Of Encouragement
When government corruption and illicit financial flows are discussed in Africa, attention is always disproportionately focused on the well-known local…
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They Fought For France In World War II, Then France M*rdered Them
The World Anti-Fascist War – more commonly and misleadingly known as “World War II” – saw more than 1 million Africans fighting and dying for the West…
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