Africa

U.S. Sets Stage For Libya-Like Regime Change In Eritrea, “Africa’s Cuba”

June 16, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Africa, Regime Change, US Foreign Policy

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - The U.S. is moving towards war against Eritrea, a fiercely independent African nation of only six million people. Washington has deployed its UN “human rights” proxies to justify another “humanitarian” military intervention, remarkably like the UN-sanctioned aggression against Libya, in 2011. The UN panel charges Eritrea with “enslaving” and murdering its own people – a pack of imperial lies. Obama is set to add another war to his bloody legacy.

U.S. Expands Secret Wars In Africa

June 9, 2016 Justin Yun, www.chimes.biola.edu Educate! Africa, Imperialism, US military, Wars and Militarism

By Justin Yun for Chimes - The secret expansion of U.S. military bases and special operations in Africahas initiated a new and lightweight style of warfare and welcomes the next phase of American military imperialism. Unlike the highly publicized U.S. military “pivot to Asia,” the proliferation of drones, special ops, mercenary spies, classified bases, proxy fighters and cyber warfare constitute what the journalist Nick Turse calls a “new light-footprint Obama doctrine” that “seems to be making war an ever more attractive and seemingly easy option.”

Western Donors Shape Pro-Corporate Agenda For Africa

May 27, 2016 Staff, www.oaklandinstitute.org Educate! Africa, Capitalism, Corporations, Food and Agriculture

By Staff of Oakland Institute - The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture, exposes how a coalition of four donor countries and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is shaping a pro-business environment in the agricultural sector of developing countries, especially in Africa. “‘Enabling Business’ has become a buzzword for development agencies, but it is vital to understand what this entails,” said Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute. “Our research shows that, in order to foster private investments, governments are being forced to open their agricultural sector...

AFRICOM: Protecting US Interests Disguised As ‘Military Partnerships’

February 27, 2016 Ebrahim Shabbir Deen, www.studies.aljazeera.net Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Foreign Relations, US military

By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen for Aljazeera Center for Studies - The first part of the paper discusses the structure of the command, its developmental aspects and the resultant conflict between the US Departments of Defense and State. Part two delves beneath the surface and teases out what might be other, unstated reasons behind AFRICOM’s establishment, including the rise of China, the increasing importance of African oil and the US “war on terror.” Part three discusses the various activities that AFRICOM is involved in and has undertaken since its establishment, including the “state partnership program” which the command has used to penetrate into African military affairs...

Building A Movement For International Seed Sovereignty

February 4, 2016 Simone Adler, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Africa, Autonomy, Food and Agriculture, Seeds

By Simone Adler for Other Worlds Are Possible - Who we are fighting for is every single peasant farmer – more than 200 million – on the planet. People are eager to join hands in building a global voice. Transnational corporations are pushing policies in African countries for industrial farming and the use of GMO [genetically modified] seeds, while grabbing our land and [stealing] our natural resources. No one should come and tell us how to produce food.

Memory Of Egyptian Revolution Is Only Weapon We Have Left

January 27, 2016 Omar Robert Hamilton, www.theguardian.com Resist! Africa, Egypt, Middle East, Protests

By Omar Robert Hamilton for The Guardian - I didn’t take my camera out with me the night Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. I stood in Tahrir Square among tens of thousands of Egyptians and told myself I would enjoy the moment, I would not divide myself from the night’s magical reality with a lens. I had filmed up until then because it was my job, because history must be recorded, because an image can change the world, because everyone had to contribute somehow to the revolution. But that night the camera stayed at home. History had happened, the world was changing before our eyes.

African Women Organize To Reclaim Agriculture

January 9, 2016 Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Africa, Food and Agriculture, Women

By Simone Adler and Beverly Bell for Other Worlds Are Possible - Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth. The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth. The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Finger millet. Photo courtesy of Mphathe Makaulele. When we plant our seeds, we don’t just plant them anytime or anywhere. We listen to our elders, who teach us about the ecological calendar.

Decolonizing Our Minds And Our Lands

December 17, 2015 Gathuru Mburu, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Resist! Africa, Decolonize, Land

By Gathuru Mburu for Other Worlds - Recolonization is happening. There is a second scramble, not just in Africa, but across the global South. Corporations started it. We need to name and shame these corporations – Monsanto, Syngenta, Cargill, and the program promoting them, AGRA [A Green Revolution for Africa] – to take this battle to the next level. The wars [of conquest of Africa] have not actually ended – the artillery has just transformed into a different type against us farmers today. All of us are fighting.

US Planning New Military Bases In Middle East, Asia, And Africa

December 12, 2015 Dan Wright, www.shadowproof.com Educate! Africa, Asia, Middle East, US military

Dan Wright for Shadow Proof - Not satisfied with sowing greater chaos and despair in the Middle East for the last decade, the Obama Administration is reportedly planning for the U.S. to expand its imperial footprint throughout Africa, Asia and other parts of the Middle East with a series of new military bases. The base plan was reportedly submitted this year by now-former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey. The U.S. already has military personnel in 135 countries, with the Department of Defense’s own reports acknowledging the existence of over 660 U.S. military bases abroad.

Negroes Need Not Apply: The EU-Africa Malta Conference

December 9, 2015 Marsha Cole, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Africa, Europe, Immigration

By Marsha Cole for Black Agenda Report - On November 12th, European and African countries met on the beautiful Mediterranean Island of Malta in the city of Valletta to determine the fate of African refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe. The Valletta meeting was devoid of the usual diplomatic niceties and perfunctory lip service that usually accompanies this kind of event. No one bothered to give lip service to the “give me your poor, your huddled masses longing to be free” propaganda. The topic was African refugees and the challenges facing global capital; the subject precluded such diplomatic nonsense.

U.S. Special Ops Missions In Africa Fail

September 14, 2015 Nick Turse, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Africa, Wars and Militarism

By Nick Turse in Tom Dispatch - Nonetheless, JCETs -- indeed all special ops engagement in Africa -- seem impervious to failure. Since 2006, in fact, the average number of special operators on the continent went from 1% of elite forces deployed abroad to 10%, a jump of 900%. And with worldwide Joint Combined Exchange Training missions set to increase next year, according to Pentagon projections, Africa is a likely site of expansion. The question is: Will episodic training with militaries regularly implicated in human rights abuses, militaries that overthrow their governments, and militaries that have consistently failed to defeat local terror groups turn them into professional, successful armies when longer-term, more intensive, bigger-budget U.S. efforts to build-up national armies from South Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq have been so ineffective?

War In Africa U.S. Military Won’t Admit It’s Fighting

September 7, 2015 Bryan Maygers, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Africa, Wars and Militarism

By Bryan Maygers in The Huffington Post - Adapted from a series of articles written for TomDispatch.com from 2012 to late 2014,Tomorrow's Battlefield methodically follows Turse's exploration of the U.S. military's Africa Command, or AFRICOM, a reporting mission that Turse says was continually re-inspired by his subjects' lack of cooperation. "Basically, it was AFRICOM that made me do it. They were really responsible for this book," he told HuffPost in a recent interview. From the outset of his reporting, Turse faced continual resistance and was refused even the most basic information or access in response to his questions. When asked for a simple tally of U.S. installations, military spokespersons repeatedly emphasized to Turse that the command maintains only one permanent "base," Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, contradicting documentary evidence of activity and infrastructure on a much larger and rapidly growing scale.

World Bank Disguising Aid For Private, For-Profit Schools In Africa

August 4, 2015 Billy Briggs, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Africa, Education, Privatization, Schools, World Bank

By Billy Briggs in Mint Press News - “These schools save costs by hiring ill-trained teachers and running large classes in substandard school buildings,” Singh wrote, adding: “Such ‘edu-businesses’, as they have come to be known, are an unsatisfactory replacement for the good public education governments should be providing.” Despite these findings, DFiD has also invested in BIA, prompting criticism from Global Justice Now. A spokesperson for the social justice organization told MintPress News: “British taxpayers are forcing private education systems on countries like Uganda and Kenya through schemes like this backed by DfID and the World Bank.” Aid is being used as a tool, Global Justice Now added, to compel the majority of the world to undertake policies which help Western business while undermining public services in emerging nations.

LAPD Pressed Gun To Chest & Shot Unarmed Homeless Man

July 31, 2015 Jeff Sharlet, www.gq.com Educate! Africa, LAPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

By Jeff Sharlet un GQ - Five months after the March 1 Los Angeles police killing of an unarmed black man named Charly "Africa" Keunang—a story I reported in-depth for the July issue of GQ—the Los Angeles coroner has finally released the results of its autopsy. They are profoundly disturbing. Two of the six bullets that killed Charly entered his body through what are called "contact gunshot wounds"—which means the muzzle of the officer's gun was pressed directly against Charly's body. Like a slaughterhouse killing. I'd already reviewed a less-detailed autopsy report commissioned privately by Keunang's family and had access to leaked body-cam videos and recordings of internal police interviews with several of the officers involved. Even so, the autopsy report is startling. There's a moment in the body-cam video when it appears to me that Officer Francisco Martinez has his hand on Charly's torso—Charly is on his back after having been wrestled down and tased—with his gun pointed at the body.

Africa To Obama: Mind Your Own Business

July 31, 2015 Andrew M Mwenda, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Africa, Imperialism, Obama

By Andrew M Mwenda in Al Jazeera - United States President Barack Obama is the most admired foreign leader in Africa because he has ancestral roots in our continent. This is partly the reason his ill-informed and stereotypical admonitions of our leaders attracted cheers from a large section of our elite class. But it is also because we African elites have internalised the ideology of our conquerors that presents us as inferior, inadequate, and incapable of self-government. Bob Marley's words that we must liberate ourselves from mental slavery are important here. In his speech to the African Union in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, Obama acted like a colonial headman lecturing the natives on how to behave as good subjects. Yet behind Obama's seeming concern for our good lies the social contempt he holds us in.

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