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Ndongo Samba Sylla, Kit Klarenberg – The Death of French Imperialism in Africa

November 17, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

16.11.2024 Since 2020, there have been 8 coups in African countries living under French neocolonial rule. Yet, this victory for people power is framed in the West as “democratic backsliding.”

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Ndongo Samba Sylla – The conceptual roots of the Global South’s debt crisis

January 21, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The widening debt crisis largely stems from a flawed multilateral system. But it also reflects the limitations of mainstream economic thinking Ndongo Samba Sylla, Head of Research and Policy for the Africa Region at International […]

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Economics

Macro N Cheese – Ndongo Samba Sylla: Africa’s Quest for Economic Liberation

September 25, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ndongo Samba Sylla tells us of the challenges facing Africa through the story of Thomas Sankara and breaks down what Sankara meant when he told the people to “live as African.” Ndongo suggests that the […]

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Economics

Ndongo Samba Sylla – Debunking some myths about coups in Africa

August 6, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

We felt it was important to reproduce this twiter thread concerning current events in the Sahel as it is the only thing that has crediblity and a sharp analysis. Being a thread it is in […]

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Economics

Macro & Cheese – Ndongo Samba Sylla: Imperialism and the Global South’s Debt

July 29, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Listen HERE Countries of the Global South usually are tied to debt in a foreign currency for a number of reasons, including balance of payment constraints and the capture of export income by transnational corporations. […]

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Economics

Review of African Political Economy – Economics and politics for liberation: an interview with Ndongo Sylla

June 4, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

French imperialism in Africa and the struggle for economic and political liberation in Senegal and the continent Read HERE

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The Dig: Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Consensus, and today’s Wall Street Consensus.

February 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Explains how our global economic systems link up with the political ones, from the IMF’s structural adjustment to “public-private partnerships” Listen Here  

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Economics

Ndongo Samba Sylla: Neoliberalism’s Colonial Origins

June 14, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

For those who have studied the history of colonial Africa through its fiscal and monetary dimensions, the similarities between colonial macroeconomics and neoliberal macroeconomics are striking. Read here

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Economics

The MMT Podcast – Ndongo Samba Sylla: The CFA Franc & The Movement For Monetary Sovereignty In Africa

June 2, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Patricia and Christian talk to Senegalese development economist and author Ndongo Samba Sylla about the political challenges facing countries with limited financial sovereignty and Africa’s last colonial currency – the CFA Franc. Listen here

Economics

Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla

May 13, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Maurice Höfgen and Julien Mathieu Niemann »There is nothing more political than money.« This simple sentence is the very quintessence of the book. Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla explain the history, […]

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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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Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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