WHITE MAN: AFRICAN MIGRANTS DIDN'T WRECK SOUTH AFRICA
Content creator Adrian Scarlett is right! South Africa’s economic woes aren’t caused by African migrants but European colonialism that persists more than 30 years after the apartheid regime was dismantled.
Indeed, a 2017 audit showed 72 per cent of South Africa’s private farmland remained in European-settler hands, who comprise a minority. Meanwhile, the World Bank ranked South Africa the world’s most unequal country in 2022.
The country’s deportations have risen 46 per cent in recent years and mass ire remains focused on African migrants who have fled the lingering impacts of European colonialism in their countries.
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The Empire That Divided Africa Is Still Drawing Lines
America has once again shown us that democracy is only sacred when it protects white power.
Republicans in Louisiana have redrawn the state’s congressional map, reducing Black-majority districts from two to one and effectively weakening Black voting power. They call the old map gerrymandering, but the new one is, too. The only difference is that this version benefits white voters, so suddenly, it becomes acceptable.
This is not new. This is the same playbook the empire used in Africa. Draw artificial borders. Break people apart. Turn majorities into minorities. Fracture unity. Make movement and trade difficult for Africans, while the same people who drew those borders move freely across the continent. Whether in Louisiana or in Africa, the empire understands the power of a united people. That is why it works so hard to divide us.
France Repeals Slavery Law Nearly 200 Years After Supposedly Abolishing Slavery
The Transatlantic Slave Trade saw the kidnapping of over 12 million Africans from the Motherland by European criminals. Of those kidnapped, 20% would not survive the voyage to the West, and of those who did survive, about 12% would be trafficked to France.
France officially abolished slavery in 1848, yet a curious piece of legislation from this supposedly bygone era, known as Code Noir, remained enshrined in French law until just this May, when it was repealed in a unanimous vote by France’s National Assembly.
Why did it take France 178 years to repeal a law which gave its European citizens legal license to buy, sell, beat, r*pe and murder Africans?
And why now?
Foreign Interference: Tanzania Blocks European Parliamentary Team From Visiting Country
In November 2022, China revamped its fabled Belt and Road Initiative – a win-win development initiative aimed at the Global South – in Tanzania. In December 2022, Tanzania signed a historic $2.2 billion railway deal with China to link the East African country’s port city, Dar es Salaam, to its neighbors, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Many other deals would follow, each with the potential to transform Tanzania and the wider continent, economically and politically, for the better.
But there was one problem.
An African nation was suddenly fast-tracking its development, without the blessing of the West.
And so the West did what it did best. It funded an “opposition” movement in Tanzania, and deployed its media parrots to promote the members of this “opposition” as “defenders of human rights and democracy” fighting against a “repressive” government, and sensationalize this government’s necessary actions to thwart the attempted color revolution that would follow.
And even after this failed regime change plot, the West continues to do everything in its power to destroy Tanzania.
Modern Capitalism Was Born From The Slave Trade - African Union Rapporteur
In this interview with SABC News, historian, author and special rapporteur for the African Union (AU) committee on reparations for slavery, colonialism and apartheid, [ @panashechigumadzi (Instagram) / @PanasheChig (X) / Dr. Panashe Chigumadzi (everywhere else) ], sheds light on an important historical connection between the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the subsequent entrenchment of slavery across the “civilized” world, and the capitalist system that would eventually replace it.
A system which has always been based on the poisonous idea that human beings can be treated as commodities.
Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans
Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders.
They want access to Africa’s market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports.
So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.
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