Modibo Keïta, Mali’s first president, dared to dream of a sovereign Africa, one not strung along by neocolonial puppeteers. He rejected the exploitative CFA franc, nationalised key industries and backed liberation struggles across the continent. Our Facts of the Week break down why the West hated him, a bold pan-Africanist who paid the price for his anti-imperialism. He was ousted in a Western-backed coup - his dream of a united, self-reliant Africa interrupted, but never erased.
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Continued……. Sources
https://modibo-keita.site/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Modibo-Keita
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/modibo-keita-1915-1977/
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/political-reforms/modibo-ke%C3%AFta-and-the-vision-of-a-united-africa-2657028
https://www.africanews.com/2021/01/02/ex-malian-pm-modibo-keita-dies-at-78/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/african-history-biographies/modibo- keita
https://www.jstor.org/stable/159526
https://africasacountry.com/2021/06/the-nigerian-and-the-lenin-prize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modibo_Ke%C3%AFta
https://modibo-keita.site/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Modibo-Keita
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/modibo-keita-1915-1977/
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/political-reforms/modibo-ke%C3%AFta-and-the-vision-of-a-united-africa-2657028
https://www.africanews.com/2021/01/02/ex-malian-pm-modibo-keita-dies-at-78/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/african-history-biographies/modibo- keita
https://www.jstor.org/stable/159526
https://africasacountry.com/2021/06/the-nigerian-and-the-lenin-prize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modibo_Ke%C3%AFta
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Our African proverb this week speaks volumes about imperialism in today's Africa. Take the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rich in minerals powering the global tech economy, yet torn apart by endless resource wars. Meanwhile the world praises western-proxy Rwanda as a model of African success. But as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels loot Congolese resources, Kigali profits, seling those same minerals to the west. So when Congo's goat goes missing and Rwanda’s pot overflows, is it really paranoia to suspect neighbouring Kigali?
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SOUTH AFRICA NO ‘RAINBOW NATION’
For decades, South Africa has been presented as the poster child of arch enemies burying the hatchet and reconciling in the interest of nation building. This narrative says that Black people must be grateful to white settlers for ending the apartheid system because they tapped into their ‘morality.’
Nothing could be further from the truth, as apartheid did not end in the early 1990s because of white settlers’ benevolence.
This is the argument that South African-Nigerian activist Lovelyn Nwadeyi (@nwadeyi_miss on Instagram) eloquently put across in this 10 November 2016 video. The social justice consultant highlighted how the main reason the system collapsed was due to economic and social factors.
According to Nwadeyi, the global Boycott Apartheid movement’s sustained campaign led to international economic sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime, forcing it to the negotiation table with the liberation movement.
For decades, South Africa has been presented as the poster child of arch enemies burying the hatchet and reconciling in the interest of nation building. This narrative says that Black people must be grateful to white settlers for ending the apartheid system because they tapped into their ‘morality.’
Nothing could be further from the truth, as apartheid did not end in the early 1990s because of white settlers’ benevolence.
This is the argument that South African-Nigerian activist Lovelyn Nwadeyi (@nwadeyi_miss on Instagram) eloquently put across in this 10 November 2016 video. The social justice consultant highlighted how the main reason the system collapsed was due to economic and social factors.
According to Nwadeyi, the global Boycott Apartheid movement’s sustained campaign led to international economic sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime, forcing it to the negotiation table with the liberation movement.
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Continued……. She also pointed out that the ban on South African sports teams participating in global competitions pushed settlers to break rank with the regime’s policies that they had loyally supported for decades.
Nwadeyi drove the point further by reminding white settlers that it was easy for them to remove themselves from the social struggle that continued after apartheid ended in the early 1990s. Meanwhile, Black people do not have the same luxury, as they still have to live in the peripheries of the economy due to the lingering effects of centuries of economic and social exclusion at the hands of the settlers.
Video credit: Big Debate South Africa/YouTube (aired on @Official_SABC1)
Sources
http://www.econ.yale.edu/growth_pdf/cdp796.pdf
Nwadeyi drove the point further by reminding white settlers that it was easy for them to remove themselves from the social struggle that continued after apartheid ended in the early 1990s. Meanwhile, Black people do not have the same luxury, as they still have to live in the peripheries of the economy due to the lingering effects of centuries of economic and social exclusion at the hands of the settlers.
Video credit: Big Debate South Africa/YouTube (aired on @Official_SABC1)
Sources
http://www.econ.yale.edu/growth_pdf/cdp796.pdf
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