Browsing: africa

It’s hard to imagine a region more devastated by neoliberal policies than Africa. As African Stream Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kaballo argues, socialism offers a people-centred, culturally sensitive…

Rwanda has expressed strong discontent over recent US sanctions imposed on State Minister James Kabarebe. The US accuses him of contributing to the Western-backed, three-decade-long war…

Europeans long portrayed Africans as lacking culture. And yet they couldn’t resist stealing our cultural treasures in their thousands and putting them in museums around the…

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a seemingly benign entity tasked with the noble-sounding mission of “advancing democracy” worldwide – including in Africa. It was…

Rwanda has turned its back on a $99-million aid programme with Belgium – accusing the latter of blackmail. Kigali alleges that Brussels – together with the…

Donald Trump’s decision to halt USAID funding has sparked mixed reactions – particularly in Africa, where the agency has long been a key player in foreign…

On this day, 16 February 1959, Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced US-backed dictator…

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…

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…