Africa

Terrorism We Are Witnessing Today Comes From Imperialism

May 14, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Educate! Africa, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Global South, Ibrahim Traore, Pan Africanism, Russia, Vladimir Putin

The “terrorism we are witnessing today comes from imperialism, and we are fighting it,” Burkina Faso’s charismatic president, 37-year-old Capt. Ibrahim Traoré told Vladimir Putin on May 10. The Russian president in turn assured him, “We are united by a common goal of fighting terrorism and extremism. We will continue to help the Republic in… suppressing the radical (Jihadist) groups that are still active in certain parts of Burkina Faso.” The leaders met in Moscow a day after attending the Victory Day Parade on May 9, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union in 1945.

The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook For Burkina Faso

May 4, 2025 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Burkina Faso, European Union (EU), Ibrahim Traore, NATO, Regime Change, US Imperialism

On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s advances on the continent. Some Senators expressed concern that Trump had dispensed with the soft power—their term—projected by USAID and worried that China is stepping in to fill the breach. Alarm bells went off in Africa, the African diaspora, and peace and justice communities all over the world when he turned attention to Burkina Faso and its leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, accusing him of using the gold reserves he nationalized “to protect his junta.”

Planting Seeds Of Sovereignty: Lessons From The Sahel And Beyond

May 2, 2025 Kai Cash, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Anti-Imperialism, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Sovereignty

As the U.S. doubles down on tariffs and trade wars, African nations—particularly in the Sahel—find themselves at a critical juncture. The West calls its protectionism “economic security” and “national interest.” But when African states make similar moves to assert control over their land, labor, and futures, they are labeled authoritarian, unstable, or dangerous. Sovereignty for the West is lauded. Sovereignty for the South is a threat. The truth is that protectionism has always been political. From Alexander Hamilton’s “infant industry” policies in the U.S. to South Korea’s strategic shielding of domestic industries in the 1960s and 1970s, protectionism has never been about fairness.

Solidarity Protests Sweep West Africa In Defense Of Burkina Faso

May 1, 2025 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Resist! Africa, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ibrahim Traore, Liberia, Sahel region, Solidarity, US Imperialism

Thousands of Africans across the continent rallied today under the unified call of “Hands Off the AES!” to express their solidarity with Burkina Faso and its revolutionary leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Demonstrations were held in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Liberia, led by grassroots organizations and people’s movements. Protesters strongly condemned foreign interference and affirmed their support for the country’s resistance against imperialist destabilization. This continental wave of solidarity follows recent revelations by Burkina Faso’s military authorities that they had foiled a major coup attempt on April 21.

Herds Of Life-Sized Animal Puppets Set Off On Climate Awareness Journey

April 30, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Resist! Africa, Biodiversity, climate crisis, Creative Action, Puppets

The Herds, a public art initiative of life-sized animal puppets that aims to raise awareness about the climate crisis, has set off on a 12,400-mile journey starting in central Africa and traveling through 20 cities in four months to the Arctic Circle. The mobile art piece of hundreds of intricately crafted puppets began on April 10 in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and has since visited Lagos, Nigeria, and Dakar, Senegal, with its next stop in Marrakesh, Morocco. “The idea is to put in front of people that there is an emergency – not with scientific facts, but with emotions,” said Sarah Desbois, producer of The Herds Senegal, as The Guardian reported.

Power Shift In The Horn Of Africa: Somalia Recognizes SSC-Khaatumo

April 28, 2025 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Ansarallah, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Yemen

The geopolitical dynamics of the Horn of Africa region are always volatile, but more so now than ever. The world’s attention is most drawn to the region by Ansar Allah’s disruption of crucial maritime routes in the Red Sea in support of Palestine and Donald Trump’s despicable proposal to remove and dump the entire population of Gaza in war-torn Sudan, Somalia, and/or Somaliland, the unrecognized Somali secessionist state. Both the US and Israel have considered recognizing secessionist Somaliland as a state in order to turn it into a US/Israeli military enclave on the Gulf of Aden, near the mouth of the Red Sea and just across from Houthi-controlled Yemen.

The Arrogance Behind AFRICOM’s Strategy

April 24, 2025 Tunde Osazua, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Niger, US Imperialism

The deterioration of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) ’s security partnerships across the Alliance of Sahel States reveals a consistent pattern of U.S. diplomatic arrogance, with two recent explosive incidents exposing a growing rift between Washington and African leadership in the Confederation of Sahel States. As the Trump administration moves to downgrade AFRICOM and slash diplomatic engagement, Niger’s defiance looks less like an outlier and more like a blueprint for African sovereignty. In March of 2024, the U.S. delegation to Niger, including Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee and AFRICOM commander General Michael Langley, made a critical miscalculation during their March 12-13 meetings.

Close Military Bases, Not Embassies

April 24, 2025 David Swanson, Let's Try Democracy. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, CIA, Diplomacy, US Foreign Bases, US Imperialism

TIn U.S. culture and media, where it’s one’s duty to pretend that the military budget and everything that goes with it does not exist, one could hardly be blamed for thinking that the closure of embassies actually meant a full departure. And one could hardly be blamed for thinking this a positive development. Those embassies have steadily been transformed over the decades into weapons dealerships, military sidekicks, and dens of spies. (The CIA may yet point out to Trump how many embassy employees are CIA and make him an offer he can’t refuse.) It’s hard sometimes to imagine other functions.

Andrée Blouin Is Our Kind Of Pan-African Revolutionary

April 4, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Africa, History, Women Activism, Writers

In 1962, Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (1931–1993), mostly known as Flora Nwapa, sent a book manuscript to the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe (1930–2013). Four years earlier, Achebe, at the tender age of twenty-eight, had published his landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Heinemann. The novel arrived in Heinemann’s London office as the decolonisation movement began to change the shape of the African continent (Ghana won its independence in 1957, three years after Nigeria – both countries with an English-speaking population, however small, that used Heinemann’s science and English books in their education system).

What The World Can Learn From Radical Queer Aid Collectives

March 25, 2025 Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! Africa, Donald Trump, Global South, LGBTQ, Mutual Aid, Nonprofits

One of the 26 executive orders Donald Trump signed on the first day of his presidency was a 90-day pause on foreign aid, which he said is often “not aligned with American interests”. The subsequent suspension of overseas aid programmes has hit vulnerable communities around the world, with LGBTIQ+ organisations in the Global South among the worst affected. But three East African queer mutual aid groups were well-prepared for this scenario, and have a model that could help organisations reeling from Trump’s actions. Since their inception, The Trans and Queer Fund and UmaUma Buy Nothing group, both based in Kenya, and an untitled queer collective in Uganda have organised themselves to be independent from foreign donors, which they say do not understand the realities of the communities they serve.

25 Days Of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women From 40 Billion Hours Of Water Harvesting

March 14, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Africa, climate crisis, Global South, International Women's Day, Socialism, Water

March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the socialist movement. Most of the world now only calls 8 March ‘International Women’s Day’, excluding the word ‘working’ from its title. But work is a fundamental part of women’s daily lives. According to UN Women’s annual report Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, 63.3% of women worldwide participated in the labour force in 2022. However, due to the appalling state of social protections and labour regimes, by 2024 nearly 10% of women were living in extreme poverty.

The Chris Hedges Report: The World After Gaza

February 27, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Africa, Asia, Gaza, Global South, History, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine, Wars and Militarism, Zionism

The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the Holocaust — genocide — has had a closer proximity both in time and place. Colonialism in Africa, destructive wars in Asia and most recently, genocide in the Middle East, have shaped the lives of billions of people. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra joins host Chris Hedges to discuss his latest book, “The World After Gaza.” Mishra argues that the shifting power dynamics in the world means the Global South’s narrative on atrocity can no longer be ignored and the genocide in Gaza is the current crux of the issue.

Trump Or Not, Africa Must Take Charge Of Its Future

February 20, 2025 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Africa, Donald Trump, Neocolonialism, Pan Africanism, Sovereignty, USAID

For decades, Africa’s relationship with the US has been shaped largely by foreign aid, security partnerships, and economic ties that have fostered dependence rather than mutual benefit. Now, under Trump’s “renewed” leadership, this dynamic is being called into question, especially as his policies begin to impact critical sectors such as health, education, and security, causing unease across the continent. On January 20, Trump announced a 90-day freeze on USAID funding, halting essential services and sparking outrage across the world.

US War On Africa Rages On With Somalia In The Crosshairs

February 17, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Donald Trump, Somalia, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The new Trump administration has wasted no time continuing the U.S. war on Africa. Just one month into his second term, the U.S. has launched at least six airstrikes in Somalia’s Puntland region. While AFRICOM and the Somali government claim these strikes are “authorized” and therefore legal under international law, this so-called authorization is nothing more than a hallmark of neo-colonial governance. Comprador regimes installed and maintained by Western imperialism do not exercise genuine sovereignty but instead serve as facilitators of foreign domination.

We Stand With The People Of The Congo

February 7, 2025 Progressive International. Resist! Africa, DR Congo, Imperialism, Solidarity, Violence

Rwanda is a proxy for Western interests in the mineral-rich Great Lakes region. Its military is armed by the United States, United Kingdom, France, the European Union, and supported by other proxies like Uganda. It is closely aligned to Israel and its intelligence and military are equipped with Israeli-made spyware and weapons. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, remains a key ally of the West even as his regime surveils, jails, tortures, disappears and assassinates critics; seizes sovereign territory; and violates the most fundamental norms of international law.

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