Africa Report
A report on Africa’s current political struggles, including: the uprising in Kenya; the US vs China and recent developments in the Sahel.
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China and Africa prepare the future while the US locks itself into the past
China overtook the US as Africa’s largest trading partner, and largest source of investment between 2013 – 2019. The US’s share of Africa’s foreign trade fell from 15.5% to 5.6%, while China’s share jumped from 4% to 25.6%.
A new wave of the African revolution has started
Liberated from imperialist domination and balkanisation, with its natural resources mobilised, Africa can become a powerhouse of the future.
China and the Global South – China’s success gives Africans another option beyond Western one
The African continent, which previously was entirely beholden to the politics and markets of our former colonisers, now has options, choices that can benefit our people and strengthen our sovereignty.
Opposing Macron’s imperialism in Africa
Sixty years after the French colonies got their formal independence, the economic, military and political ties which kept the ex-colonies under France domination remains.
It is time that France turned the final page of its policies of colonialism and neo-colonialism.
Alternative approaches to Africa: Chinese trade v Western bombs
By Tom Castle
The military intervention in Mali led by French imperialism has quickly been followed by Britain announcing it intends to establish a military presence in Libya, South Sudan and Somalia.