Africa Under Fire

The former South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, shaking hands with Mr Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Peoples Republic of China, after giving opening remarks on the occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), 3nd December 2015, Pretoria, South Africa. Photo: DIRCO.

Five imperialist myths about China’s role in Africa

Nino Brown

May 14, 2019

Setting the stage for “great power confrontation” That China is a rising power is undeniable. Since its founding in 1949, the People’s Republic of China has undergone several substantial economic and social policy changes, in ...

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Africa Under Fire

Train wreck exposes role of imperialism in Cameroon

Jeff Bigelow

January 12, 2017

On October 21, 2016, a train derailed in Cameroon killing at least 79 and injuring over 500 people. Heavy rain had washed out the road between Douala and Yaounde. Extra cars had been added to ...

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What’s behind Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria?

Eugene Puryear

January 16, 2015

While this most recent tragedy did not gain the wattage of the killings at Charlie Hebdo, it does fit into the same narrative of "Islamic" insurgency presenting an existential threat to all people in Western ...

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Africa Under Fire

Women react during a protest demanding security forces to search harder for 200 abducted schoolgirls, outside Nigeria's parliament in Abuja

What or who will #BringBackOurGirls?

Eugene Puryear

May 6, 2014

Like many of the humanitarian crises in Africa that have become international campaigns, this situation has significant roots which Western military intervention cannot solve and will only exacerbate.

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Left to right: Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo

Nelson Mandela: Armed struggle and communism in the fight for ...

Eugene Puryear

December 6, 2013

Nelson Mandela, longtime leader of the African National Congress, and first Black president of South Africa, died quietly in his home December 5, after a long battle with illness. Mandela became the world’s best-known political ...

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Nelson Mandela, activist against Apartheid, here in his youth c. 1950

It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela

Brian Becker

July 18, 2013

Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, but forget the crocodile tears from the U.S. government about his poor health. Imperialist diplomacy with all of its sugar-coated phrases is nothing more than a form of historical ...

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Africa Under Fire

A French soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in Combattant neighborhood near Bangui's airport, on December 9, 2013

Oppose the neocolonial French intervention in Mali!

Eugene Puryear

January 16, 2013

“Without Africa, there will be no history of France in the 21st century.”—Former French President Francois Mitterand

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Report reveals role of CIA in Libya

Derek Jennings

November 5, 2012

A CIA timetable and a report by the Wall Street Journal, both released on Nov. 1, have revealed the extent to which the CIA was involved in responding to the Sept. 11 attack on the ...

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Africa Under Fire

Amilcar Cabral and the national liberation movement of Guinea Bissau ...

Danny Shaw

January 26, 2011

For 500 years, Portuguese colonialism was built upon the slave trade and the systematic pillaging of its African colonies: Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe, Angola and Cape Verde. Marxist historian Walter Rodney summarized ...

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