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Pavan Kulkarni – A new military strategy of French neo-colonialism in Africa: reorganising under the cover of retreat

January 27, 2025 Ben Wray 0

A comprehensive report on France’s manoeuvres in the Sahel, where governments face demands for the former colonial power’s complete expulsion. This article was produced by Globetrotter In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of […]

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Martin Barnay – The Franc Zone

January 13, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Analysis of the troubles facing ‘Francafrique’. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Adam Tooze – Chartbook 330: Africa & absolute poverty in an era of polycrisis

October 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The reduction in global absolute poverty has stalled. In Adam Tooze’s Substack. Read the article HERE.

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Kristian Laubjerg – The myth of French decolonization

October 2, 2024 Ben Wray 0

How France maintained ‘Francafrique’, and why it might not last. Kristian Laubjerg spent most of his professional life in development, firstly for the Danish Development Agency and lastly for UNICEF. In 2008, he established the […]

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Saber Ammar – Resisting the new green colonialism

August 7, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritises European energy needs over local sovereignty. Saber Ammar is an activist, researcher, and Arab region program assistant at Transnational Institute (TNI). Cross-posted from Africa is a Country […]

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Mehmet Ozkan – How Turkey is gaining a foothold in West Africa

July 29, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Turkey is moving into the Sahel region, while the United States and France are being forced out. Mehmet Ozkan is Professor of international relations at Turkish National Defence University in Istanbul. Cross-posted from Middle East […]

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Vijay Prashad – The Sahel stands up and the world must pay attention

July 10, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Interesting developments in the Sahel region, where an alliance has formed to try to shake off the grip of French neo-colonialism. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow […]

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Vijay Prashad – The Unremarkable Deaths of Migrants Crossing the Sahara

April 10, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Migrants are dying quietly in the Sahara long before they reach the Mediterranean, which is just how European leaders want it. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator, and Marxist intellectual. He is the […]

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Robin Jaspert – How Europe Made Indebted African States Into Its Border Police

January 3, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Since 2015, the EU has increasingly demanded that African states repress migration on its behalf. It secures their compliance through economic coercion — exploiting debt relations which have in recent times sharply turned in favor […]

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Sam Okyere – Priced out by imports, Ghana’s farmers risk death to work in Italy

December 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Farmers in Ghana say cheap Italian tomatoes are ruining their businesses. Many have travelled to seek work abroad. Sam Okyere is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He is primarily interested in […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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