From Niamey to Gaza: Resisting the Imperialist World System. The Tenth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2024)
October 31, 2024
From the Sahel to Palestine, the fight against imperialism and colonialism is intensifying. In West Africa, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) is challenging French neocolonial borders and reclaiming economic sovereignty, while in Palestine, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood is part of the ongoing struggle for liberation from Zionism.
Decades of embracing neoliberal electricity policies have left Africa, one of the world’s most resource rich regions, with the lowest energy consumption rates per capita.
Interventions Issue 1: What is Pan-Africanism?
September 16, 2023
Professor Issa G. Shivji explores the process of worldwide capitalist accumulation across several centuries alongside the emergence of grand narratives of nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
Since the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States, there is a new confederation comprised of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger which appears to have an anti-imperialist character. Hanna Eid goes beyond the headlines to show how imperialist domination in West Africa and pseudo-sovereignty through Françafrique is crucial.
This year marks the centenary of Amílcar Cabral’s birth in 1924. António Tomás writes this month’s newsletter on the visionary leader in the fight for independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, Cabral’s legacy endures.
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