Browsing: Africa

West, Central and North Africa have seen a number of successful power grabs in recent years. These can broadly be divided into two types: the anti-imperialist…

A trove of confidential documents, e-mails and WhatsApp conversations has unveiled a ploy by the British Foreign Office to run a smear campaign against African Stream.…

Like many colonised and enslaved territories, Jamaica fronted strong resistance against imperialism. Listen to legendary Jamaican singer Buju Banton explain the role the Maroons played. The…

Financial-rights activist Alex Gladstein dissects the IMF’s African operations in this video. Drawing on the case of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he reveals…

In the last few days, tech billionaire Elon Musk has shared multiple posts accusing South African politician Julius Malema of inciting gen*cide against White people. The…

During Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show performance on 9 February in New Orleans, one of the approximately 400 ‘field cast’ members pulled…

A leaked document titled the ‘Adaptive Country Plan Research’ – obtained by West Africa Weekly’s @DavidHundeyin – reveals the extent of the on-going information war in…

The West has consistently misrepresented Africa as a continent of poverty and in dire need of saving. But it’s quite the opposite: The West desperately needs…

The Gullah Geechee community are descendants of enslaved Africans forcibly brought to the coastal regions of the US states of North and South Carolina, Georgia and…

Not everyone who looks like you is your ally. The tragic rise in violence in the Congo serves as a sad reminder that, despite our shared…