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Features
Walter Rodney: 33 years later
Oscar Ramjeet (2013-06-12)
cc W RThe person suspected of killing Rodney is reported to have died in 2002. However the Rodney family and his supporters still want to know who was behind the assassination of this great man
Britain announces compensation for Mau Mau victims
William Hague (2013-06-11)
cc M WGovernment acknowledges that Kenyans were subject to torture and other forms of ill treatment at the hands of the colonial administration, but refuses to accept liability for the atrocities
Tunisia: The rocky road to elections
Farida Ayari (2013-06-11)
cc T UTunisians are concerned that the uprising that overthrew the Ben Ali dictatorship has failed to bear any meaningful result. The ruling coalition is only interested in its own survival and national institutions are very weak
The unfinished business of total liberation - Africa’s islands
Akyaaba Addai-Sebo (2013-06-11)
cc R AIt is generally held that decolonisation of Africa ended with the fall of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. But the truth is that Britain, France, Spain and Portugal continue to colonise a number African islands
Popularizing new neo-colonial governance processes for African minerals?
Paula Butler and Evans Rubara (2013-06-11)
cc P ZThere seems to be an unspoken foreign goal to prevent control of mining policy throughout Africa from falling into the hands of nationalist, pro-community political forces who will promote a vigorous resource nationalism agenda
Is Kenya the new haven for tax dodgers?
Martin Kirk and Blessol Gathoni (2013-06-11)
cc J GThe plan looks fine, but in practice it means Kenya would become a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil haven for tax cheats and money launderers, governed by lax regulation that puts all the power in the hands of the multinational corporations
The war on Africa: U.S. imperialism and the world economic crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe (2013-06-12)
cc P ZCapitalism has failed to provide adequate housing, jobs, medical, educational and other services to many people in the West. As well, China’s global influence is rising. These are some of the reasons behind the US quest for mineral resources and strategic dominance in Africa and Middle East
Syria and the sham of ‘humanitarian intervention’
Ajamu Baraka (2013-06-12)
cc M LHumanitarian intervention provides the U.S. the perfect ideological cover and internal rationalization to continue as the global ‘gendarme’ of the capitalist order. America should leave the rest of the world alone