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Colonialism and the Predatory State in the Congo
“At independence, the Congo had only two graduates, and such fabulous riches that the country inevitably became a magnet for rapacious foreign companies and for the Western intelligence services. Kinshasa, as the capital Leopoldville was renamed, swelled with worldly businessmen not averse to secret deals. Once Lumumba was . . .” read more
Cuba and Southern Africa
“After eight months of talks in Geneva between Angola, Cuba, South Africa and the United States, 1988 is drawing to a close with the distinct possibility that Pretoria may have been forced to end ten years of procrastination and redraw its regional strategy in such a way as . . .” read more
The Liberation of Kampala
“The liberation of Uganda by what its protagonists called ‘a protracted people’s war’ took exactly five years. Such a change of government under armed popular pressure rather than by a coup d’etat has never before been achieved in Africa. Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army (nra) was trained . . .” read more
Ghana’s Precarious Revolution
“When Flight Lieutenant Rawlings seized power for the second time in Ghana on 31 December 1981 it was, like similar coups in Liberia and Ethiopia, under the pressure of intolerable economic crisis which had brought in its wake social and political crises of equally daunting proportions. Rawlings’s first . . .” read more