The facility’s colonial mindset is an ever-present reminder that “aid is dead,” writes Suhail Omar.
COVAX Isn’t Africa’s Silver Bullet
Category: Africa
COVAX Rollout Accelerating in Africa
The continent is in the throes of a third wave of the pandemic and a WHO official said the rise in shipments shines a “light at the end of the tunnel that must not be snuffed out again.”
A Senseless Cathedral of Doom
Vijay Prashad reflects on the geo-political backdrop to last month’s “African Lion 21,” a U.S.-led military exercise on the African continent that involved the armed forces of 21 countries.
The Silence of ‘Global Music’ About Vaccine Apartheid
It’s shameful that the music industry has not uttered a collective word of protest about rich, primarily Western countries hoarding doses, writes Vik Sohonie.
How to Destroy a Nation in 10 Years
Danny Sjursen offers a U.S. case study in Burkina Faso on how to destroy a country in a decade.
1967: End of Israel’s ‘Golden Age’ in Africa
Yotam Gidron recalls a time when Israel — before its occupation of the Sinai Peninsula — was diplomatically engaged with Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and projecting itself as a plucky postcolonial nation.
COVID-19: Paltry International Support for Global South
Unsurprisingly, this has become a “developing-country pandemic,” write Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
AFRICA: Deby’s Death, Chad’s Crisis & the Ghosts of Libya
Danny Sjursen says it is no accident that some 60 percent of the coups in Africa over the last half century occurred in former French colonies.
AFRICA: The Decline of Liberia in Black Internationalism
Historically, the country ignited the imagination of black people across the globe. Brooks Marmon looks into what happened.
AFRICA: Early Humans in Stone Age Africa Permanently Changed the Landscape With Fire
Human environmental impacts are associated with the time after the Industrial Revolution, but paleo-scientists have a deeper perspective.