HOW EU FUNDS MIGRANT ‘DEATH CAMPS’ IN AFRICA

The EU is funding militias across Africa to do its dirty work and keep migrants away from its shores. This has led to the torture and painful death of Africans at home. Europe’s also been happy to work with war criminals to get its way in Africa, as well as use extortion tactics on African nations. Here’s a quick recap.

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IS UGANDA’S ANTI-LGBTQ A FOREIGN IMPORT?

With Ghana’s parliament announcing its intent to pass an anti-gay bill by Christmas, the role of Western interests in this new wave of homophobia sweeping across Africa comes into question. Thus, we revisit this opinion piece we did about religious-sponsored homophobia, not homosexuality, being a Western export to Africa. Even today, groups such as Family Watch International have been fingered as lobbying for legislation criminalizing homosexuality from Uganda, Kenya and Ghana.

Supporters of Uganda’s tough anti-gay law said that the LGBTQ movement is a corrupting, non-African influence imposed by the West. But could the same actually be said for homophobia? Could it be a colonial import to the continent - with negative African attitudes towards homosexuals shaped and fostered by European teachings? And could modern-day Western influences be radicalising these attitudes?

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TEACH BELGIAN KIDS THE TRUTH ABOUT CONGO

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech on how Belgian schools not only fail to teach about what really happened in Congo during the colonial era, but erase the brutality and the crimes of the Belgian forces.

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NO JUSTICE FOR AFRICANS IN FLINT

After millions of dollars have been spent since the first criminal investigations into the Flint water crisis were launched seven years ago in the US state of Michigan, all of the cases were closed 2 November. This means no one is being held criminally responsible for what happened to the predominantly African people who live in the city of Flint. That includes 115 deaths, as well as cognitive and growth delays in children. The court decision follows the Michigan Supreme Court’s rejection of efforts to revive charges against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.

African Stream’s Salifu Mack shows us that what is happening in Flint is a microcosm of African people’s struggle for water rights around the world.

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FANCY A BANANA BEER?

Let’s make banana beer. Africans were using locally available crops to brew beer long before Europeans introduced their own techniques, but East Africans stand out in this respect. Their traditional beer is made with bananas. We travelled to Rwanda to find out how urwagwa - a local blend of crushed bananas - is made.

WEST FUNDS CENTRAL AFRICAN REBELS

The Central African Republic (CAR) is part of a growing wave of former French colonies that have recently expelled French troops.

According to a CAR-based radio station, Lengo Songo, the United States and France have been funding armed group Union for Peace (UPC), which has been reported as destabilising the country. The radio station says the CAR government arrested a UPC member, ‘Ben Afra,’ who is alleged to have been in contact with a French intelligence agent, Stéphane Granier. The Frenchman was charged with funding and coordinating UPC activities, Lengo Songo reports.

The Central African Republic is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world, producing diamonds, oil, gold and uranium. AZO Mining, a trade publication, says the following resources have yet to be obtained in the CAR, due to unavailable production infrastructure: Quartz, copper, iron ore, uranium, kyanite, lignite, graphite, ilmenite, manganese, monazite, rutile, salt and tin.

WHY ESWATINI STILL EXISTS PART 1

How did tiny Eswatini avoid annexation?

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CHRISTIANITY: WHITE MAN’S RELIGION?

Christianity has a long history in Africa that predates any European nation docking on African shores. The ancient Egyptian Coptic Church, as well as Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church, which had both started by 1 AD, are some of the oldest Christian centres in the world. The assertion that Christianity is a white religion is neither historically accurate nor theologically correct. Let us know in the comments what you think: is Christianity just another case of appropriation?

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WEAPONISING ANTI-SEMITISM

Accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ lodged against revolutionary African people in the Americas have been plentiful in the last century. Listen to the breakdown in this 6 November 2018 video by Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. You might be surprised by some of the names on the list. We know we were.

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LUMUMBA ON RUSSIA-AFRICA SUMMIT

“Go to Russia at your own risk!”

According to Pan-Africanist PLO Lumumba, that was the warning sent to African leaders by Western powers in the run-up to this year’s Russia-Africa Summit.

Moscow had sent out official invitations to 54 African delegations, but only 17 delegations led by presidents attended the summit in St. Petersburg. Ten were headed by prime ministers, while the rest were led by less senior officials. Five countries refused to take part in the event.

Lumumba reckons that many African presidents stayed home due to threats of economic sanctions and military intervention. Western powers were keen to deny Russia a diplomatic boost, as they sought to isolate the Kremlin after its invasion of Ukraine.

Do you think African leaders were cowed? Or did they have their own beef with Russia?

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