Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BOBIN Florian
France’s history of violent policing towards Africans partly explains the repression of dissent in its former colonies.
On June 2, 2020, tens of thousands gathered in front of the High Court of Paris to protest against police brutality and racism. Showing support to the family of Adama Traoré, (...)
, by SWAGLER Matt
Marxist ideas became central to African political organizing from the late 1940s through the 1970s—a development which took place at the same time that the Soviet Union emerged as a new global superpower. During and after WWII, the USSR (and Soviet doctrines of Communism) began to exert the (...)
, by MUIGA Kamau
Turn any homophobic corner in Africa and you’re guaranteed to run into a delirious celebration of “African culture,” but there’s nothing African about homophobia.
A petition to decriminalize sexual acts between people of the same sex was recently rejected by the Kenyan High Court. The litigation (...)
, by OPOKU Kwame
“The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to the colonial system and are now being demanded, must also not be postponed with cheap arguments and tricks.”
Source: Gert v. Paczensky and Herbert Ganslmayr, Nofretete will nach Hause.
We pointed out in our last article some of the strange ideas of the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the body that controls the Humboldt Forum where African artefacts, formerly (...)
, by MANJI Firoze
How do we account for the failure of left working class movements taking root in most of Africa?
The early 1950s witnessed an extraordinary sweep of popular mobilisations across the African continent inspired by aspirations for emancipatory freedom: an end to the colonial yoke. Nationalist (...)
, by SHIVJI Issa
Africa’s comprador ruling classes and educated middle class are so compromised by imperialism that they are incapable of providing the revolutionary leadership required for the continent’s true liberation. The only possible alternative is that of the working people. They need an ideology, (...)
, by NANGA Jean
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, numerous states in sub- Saharan Africa which once belonged to the British and French colonial empires are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their creation or the independence of the colonial territories. This article is a modest contribution to the appreciation of the African situation on the occasion of this anniversary.
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