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 The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation by Richard Drayton, 20 August 2005. “Britain has never faced up to the dark side of its imperial history.”Africa's Suffering Is Bush's Shame by Jeffrey D. Sachs, 12 June 2005.Arms, Africa, and America's Inmate Industry by Ezrah Aharone, 13 January 2007.The Story of How Cuba Helped to Free Africa by Isaac Saney, 04 November 2005.A shameful open sore by Joseph Harker, 24 March 2007. “The brutal legacy of the slave trade is manifest in the problems afflicting so many black Britons today.”AFRICOM: Imperialism, neo-colonialism and the fight for African resources by Kuumba Chi Nia, 30 November 2007.
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 Africa Focus “features high-quality analysis and progressive advocacy on African issues, with particular attention to priority issues affecting the entire continent.” ZNet Africa Watch.
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Angola| Internal Links | External Links |
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US intervention in Africa: Through Angolan eyes by Tetteh Hormeku, 1997.Angola by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Angola 1975-1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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 Angola Unravels - The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process: Background from the Human Rights Watch.
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Benin| Internal Links | |
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Burkina Faso| Internal Links | |
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Cameroon| Internal Links | |
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Central African Republic| Internal Links | |
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Chad| Internal Links | External Links |
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”When two poor countries reclaimed oilfields, why did just one spark uproar? by George Monbiot, 16 May 2006.“The outcry over Bolivia's renationalisation and the silence over Chad's betrays the hypocrisy of the critics.”
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The Case Against Hissčne Habré, an "African Pinochet" from the Human Rights Watch.
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Republic of Congo(The former French colony also known as Congo-Brazzaville)
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Democratic Republic of Congo(The former Belgian colony formerly called Zaire)
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Colonial residue by Paul Harris, 22 May 2003.Ignoring the World's Bloodiest War by Chris Fagen, 18 June 2003. “What's Behind the Killing in Central Africa?”Greed in a time of cholera by Kate Holt and Sarah Hughes, 21 September 2004. “To survive, the people of eastern Congo have a choice: either to risk deadly diseases mining minerals for rebel soldiers, or flee into the jungle. Kate Holt and Sarah Hughes report on how an entire population has been enslaved – and abandoned by the West.”American Assassination of Patrice Lumumba and Backing of State Terrorism of the People of The Congo/Zaire in America: Rogue State.Zaire by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.
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  Same Old Story: Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo from  Global Witness. Fondation Maisha - Belgian-Congolese non profit organisation for the reintegration of young people in society, with many useful links.The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1909.
An online version of the book.Zaire 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.The Congo 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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Côte d'Ivoire(Ivory Coast)
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “The social impact of IMF structural adjustment on Cote d'Ivoire was severe. Between 1988-1995, the incidence and intensity of poverty doubled, with the number of people earning less than $1/day increasing from 17.8% of the population to 36.8%. In Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's largest city, the rate of urban poverty rose from 5% to 20% between 1993 and 1995.”Ivory Coast: colonial adventure by Boubacar Boris Diop, April 2005. “The actions of the French Operation Unicorn peacekeeping force in the former French west African colony of Ivory Coast have exposed the greed and seaminess of France’s dual role as both mediator and participant.”France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Equatorial Guinea(The former Spanish colony)
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”Recent Developments in Equatorial Guinea by Agustín Velloso, 30 November 2006.Spain and Equatorial Guinea: development cooperation as fraud by Agustín Velloso, 15 September 2007.
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Ethiopia| External Links | |
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Behind the Famine in Ethiopia: Glut and Aid Policies Gone Bad by Roger Thurow, 01 July 2003. “This essential article comes from the Wall Street Journal, of all places. Although it does not probe as deeply as one might hope into how the World Bank decided to demand policies that so egregiously failed to take into account the most basic laws of a market economy (supply and demand), it makes plain the astounding degree of incompetence.”
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Gabon| Internal Links | |
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Ghana| Internal Links | |
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “Market liberalization, which SAPs often demand, results in very high interest rates. Lending rates in Ghana averaged about 36 percent between 1998 and 2000, making the cost of borrowed capital extremely expensive. This stifled investment and growth.”
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Guinea-Bissau(The former Portuguese colony, not to be confused with Guinea(-Conakry), the former French colony)
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France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Kenya| Internal Links | |
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The British Empire “Britain's empire was built on vast ethnic cleansing, enslavement, enforced racial hierarchy, land theft and merciless exploitation. As the Cambridge historian Richard Drayton puts it: "We hear a lot about the rule of law, incorruptible government and economic progress – the reality was tyranny, oppression, poverty and the unnecessary deaths of countless millions of human beings."”Nurse exodus leaves Kenya in crisis by Tracy McVeigh, 21 May 2006. “Poor pay and lack of jobs are forcing workers to abandon their country's health service to seek work in the UK, reports Tracy McVeigh in Nairobi.”How your supermarket flowers empty Kenya's rivers by John Vidal, 21 October 2006. “Farms that supply Europe accused of stealing from depleted river.”IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “Many of the solutions imposed by so-called experts have, in fact, worsened the cycles of poverty and crisis.”
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Liberia| Internal Links | |
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Hopeful, not helpless from the Daily Bruin (UCLA), 04 August 1997.
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Libya| Internal Links | |
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Why America Hates Qadhafi by Husayn Al-Kurdi, 11 January 1995.American Terror-Campaign Against the Libyan People in America: Rogue State.
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Malawi| Internal Links | |
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “Malawi – hardly a desert state, but a densely-populated country in a lush region – really was facing catastrophic food shortages in the wake of a combination of flooding and a regional drought, and after over a decade of "structural adjustment" policies designed by the IMF.”
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Mali| Internal Links | |
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Cotton subsidies squeeze Mali by Joan Baxter, 19 May 2003.Mali's David v Goliath GM struggle by Joan Baxter, 07 December 2005. “"If BT cotton is so profitable, why do they have to subsidise their cotton farmers with billions of dollars in the United States?" Ms Samake asks. "Our farmers in West Africa achieve record production using just their digging sticks and regular seeds and they have great difficulty selling what they produce, because subsidies in America and Europe have made the world price for cotton fall."”France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Morocco| External Links | |
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King Hassan of Morocco: world leaders mourn a ruthless despot by Jean Shaoul, 28 July 1999.
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Mozambique| Internal Links | External Links |
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Massacre Deep in the African Bush: Rebels are blamed for the worst atrocity of a savage eleven-year war by William E. Smith, 03 August 1987.
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U.S. Supports "One of the Most Brutal Holocausts Since World War II" from the Third World Traveler.
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Niger| Internal Links | |
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Are You Trying to Kill Us? Famine Politics and 'Aid' by Yves Engler, 15 August 2005.France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Nigeria| Internal Links | |
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Rebels threaten all-out attack on Nigeria's oil by Matthew McAllester, 05 November 2006. “Kidnappings escalate as Niger Delta militants say violence is their last resort.”Oil Inferno by Michael Watts, 02 January 2007. “The terrifying oil explosion that engulfed a Lagos neighborhood following Christmas Day – the current death toll is almost 300 – says less about vandals who hot-tap the exposed pipelines running through the city's abject slum world than the venality, waste and corruption of a Nigerian petro-capitalism fuelled by windfall profits and modernity's addiction to the automobile.”Crude awakening part one by Sebastian Junger, 15 April 2007. “For decades, the oil-rich delta of the Niger river has been plundered by western companies and rampant political corruption. But now a small group of ruthless Ijaw tribesmen are threatening to sabotage production unless their demands for compensation are met. Sebastian Junger heads into the secretive mangrove swamps to meet the waterborne warriors who are prepared to trigger a global meltdown.”Crude awakening part two by Sebastian Junger, 15 April 2007.
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RwandaColonel Oliver: You should spit in my face.
Paul: Excuse me Colonel?
Colonel Oliver: You're dirt. We think you're dirt, Paul.
Paul: Who is we?
Colonel Oliver: The West. All the super powers. Everything you believe in Paul. They think you're dirt. They think you're dumb. You're worthless.
Paul: I am afraid I don't understand what you are saying sir.
Colonel Oliver: Oh come on Paul, You're the smartest man here. You could own this hotel, except for one thing. You could own this freakin' hotel, except for one thing. You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African. They're not going to stay Paul. They're not going to stop this slaughter.– from the film Hotel Rwanda.
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Rwanda: OAU Report from Africa Action, 08 July 2000. “A press release on the release of the new Organization of Africa Unity report on the genocide in Rwanda, which places the blame on the UN Security Council for failing to act. It also contains Chapter 10 of the report, which focuses on "What the World Could Have Done". The report denounces the double standard which allowed the UN forces to stretch their mandate to rescue expatriates, but failed to extend the same protection to Rwandan victims.”The full 293-page report (PDF).
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Senegal| Internal Links | |
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “The quality of social services, such as education and health, including infant and maternity care, has declined, hitting women, who make up the vast majority of the poor, particularly hard.”France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Somalia| Internal Links | |
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “Urban purchasing power declined dramatically, government extension programs were curtailed, infrastructure collapsed, the deregulation of the grain market and the influx of "food aid" led to the impoverishment of farming communities.”American Slaughter of People in Somalia in America: Rogue State.International lawlessness by Salim Lone, 30 December 2006. “The US-backed invasion of Somalia to topple its Islamists is a dangerous, illegal act of aggression.”Return of the Warlords by Amina Mire, 02 January 2007. “For the average western person, the current Ethiopian invasion of Somalia is just another military operation taking place in a distance land in the war against Islam terror. For Somalis, this invasion is nothing short of a humiliating catastrophe.”America's interests in Somalia by Mark Fineman, 18 January 1993. “Four major U.S. oil companies are sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions.”The Imperial System: Hierarchy, Networks and Clients: The Case of Somalia by James Petras, 18 February 2007.Inside Africa's Guantánamo by Salim Lone, 28 April 2007. “The only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter.”
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South Africa| Internal Links | |
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Hippies, Muslim, Yanks march against Bush from SAPA (South African Press Association), 09 Jul 2003.What went wrong in the 'New' South Africa? – "Free trade" and water mostly by Andrew Nowicki, 20 October 2003.
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Sudan| Internal Links | |
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Year later, US attack on factory still hurts Sudan by Jonathan Belke, 22 August 1999.The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war by John Laughland, 02 August 2004. “Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan.”IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “In 1985, when the country of Sudan was in the midst of a terrible famine, the IMF refused any credit to Sudan and the country was put under a donors' embargo, because it had refused to end food subsidies. When I asked an IMF desk officer why this was happening, and said that an end to subsidies would mean that more people would starve, he answered, "Yes, but it is good for the economy''.”Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur by David Morse, 18 August 2005.
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Tanzania| Internal Links | External Links |
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “While agricultural production and exports have increased since the adjustment program began, so have rural poverty, income inequality, food insecurity, malnutrition and environmental degradation.”
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 Darwin's Nightmare. “Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world.
Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent. This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World Bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.” |
Togo| Internal Links | |
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Eyadema’s stranglehold on Togo by Jürgen Henn and Agbessi Spartacus, 04 May 2005.France killing French Africa by Sanou Mbaye, 29 January 2004. “The French are still calling the economic shots in French Africa and it's harming the entire continent.”
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Zambia| Internal Links | External Links |
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “SAP has proved to be a bitter pill to swallow. It has meant death from malnutrition in both mothers and their children.”
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 The last shirt maker in Ndola by David Loyn, 22 May 2004. “During the period of the most intense IMF-led reforms, Zambia has tumbled more than 30 places down the UN's index of poverty. It is now one of the 12 poorest countries in the world.” |
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Up Close - Zimbabwe by Cynthia McKinney, 21 June 2003. “Some would have us believe that we become heated over Zimbabwe because of the country's human rights abuse, democracy well over the line toward autocracy, rampant corruption, and black racism. But ultimately, the question is the land.”IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “State subsidies on food and price controls were removed and people started starving. The country sank deeper and deeper into debt as the structural adjustment program depended on huge borrowings. By 1997 the country was now spending seven times more on debt-servicing than on education and health.”One Zimbabwe or Another by Mickey Z., 15 April 2005.On the run, again by Angus Shaw, 09 April 2005. “Thirty years ago, Angus Shaw was called up to fight in the colonial army in the dying days of white rule in Rhodesia. He deserted. In exile he met the nationalists and guerrillas who went on to form Zimbabwe's government. Now, a journalist threatened with jail, he has headed across the border again. He tells his story.”Zambia Deports Spies w/CIA-Freedom House Ties from the Harare Sunday Mail, 05 February 2006.Mugabe Gets the Milosevic Treatment by Stephen Gowans, 23 March 2007.
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 Zimbabwe moves to reduce food prices
by Deirdre Griswold. “President Robert Mugabe announced on Oct. 15 that Zimbabwe would turn away from a free-market economy and exert state control over prices of food and other necessities to deal with a growing crisis in the country.” Zimbabwe Under Siege by Gregory Elich, 26 August 2002. “As Zimbabwe descends into anarchy and chaos, land is irrationally seized from productive farmers, we are told. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is portrayed as a dictator bent on driving his nation into starvation and economic disaster while benevolent U.S. and British leaders call for democracy and human rights.”Our Racist Demonology by George Monbiot, 13 August 2002. “Robert Mugabe is portrayed as the prince of darkness, but when whites expel black people from their lands, nobody gives a damn.” Don't blame Mugabe for everything by Thabo Mbeki, 29 May 2003.
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