IMF's Fresh Advice, & What Nigerians Must Know
There is currently a lot being said about the IMF and its predatory recommendations for African economies, with Nigeria as the latest case study. However, a large number of Nigerians like other Africans, seems to miss the forest for trees by not realising that the IMF is merely one manifestation of US imperialism.
Mckay Chukwu examines why it is inherently self-defeating for Africans to see one part of the problem, while studiously refusing to acknowledge the wider ugly reality of western imperialism and how pervasive its influence is.
Somalia Adopts Burkina Faso’s Security & Counter-T*rrorism Model Amid Rising External Threats
Following an official visit to Burkina Faso by its Minister Of Internal Security, Somalia is moving to replicate Burkina Faso’s security and counter-t*rrorism model on its own soil, to better tackle increasing threats to its sovereignty.
This May 4th visit came amid the continued activities of Al-Q*eda affiliate Al-Shabaab in the East African country, and 5 months after Isr*el became the first and only country to officially recognize the breakaway state of Somaliland – located in Somalia’s northern territory – and immediately moved to establish a military presence in the state
Capitalism Looted The World: Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro gives an interview to Epigmenio Ibarra of the Mexican television channel on July 20, 1991, after attending the First Ibero-American Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico.
In the one-hour interview, Castro, the Cuban revolutionary and nationalist leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008, argued that Western capitalism had looted the world. Unlike socialism, which he described as a system rooted in human prosperity, true freedom, and collective progress, Castro said capitalism had produced environmental destruction, mass inequality, unchecked consumerism, and an inability to solve humanity’s greatest crises, from poisoned oceans to the endless exploitation of resources.
Castro further insisted that socialism was not dying, but waiting to be reborn “like a phoenix from the ashes.” He believed humanity’s future depends on rational planning, education, healthcare, dignity, and sustainable living, rather than on endless consumption and corporate greed. “It is capitalism,” he argued, “that is in an irreversible crisis.”
Meanwhile, with the capitalist West, specifically the US, strangling Cuba with imperial-driven sanctions, Castro’s argument that capitalism is killing the world holds even after nine years of his death.
Shahid Bolsen On Who Shook The Jar In South Africa
It is easy to get riled up by the simple and pervasive narratives surrounding ongoing anti-African violence in South Africa, but Shahid Bolsen reminds us that as always, it is better to avoid the face-value narrative and ask some deeper, more fundamental questions so as to arrive at an understanding of who is ultimately responsible for this and what their agenda is.
African Independence Is A Myth - Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe said it plainly.
African independence is a myth if the same foreign powers that claim to have “left” are still interfering, still choosing sides, still supplying weapons, still shaping outcomes, and still pretending they are neutral. That is the dishonesty Achebe was pointing to.
They call it an African problem in public while fueling the same crisis behind the scenes.
So what kind of independence is that? This is why the conversation about Africa’s freedom cannot end with national borders. To be truly independent, we must have absolute control over our politics, resources, security, economies, and our future.
Anything less is performance.
Kwame Ture And Angela Davis: Capitalism Is Monopoly and Exploitation, Not Equal Opportunity
One of the most ubiquitous ideas pushed on Africans is that capitalism is the gold standard around which a society should be organised because it presents every member of society with an “equal opportunity” to achieve economic self-actualisation, subject only to individual hard work and creativity.
In this public lecture, Kwame Ture and Angela Davis deconstruct this myth by disproving its central tenet: that there is a “level playing field” for all participants.
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