Jeremy Cronin on the huge advances under ANC rule, its failures and the multiple challenges, above all unemployment, poverty and yawning inequality
neo-colonialism
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Fascinating and informative read exploring the fight for the liberation and the US efforts to prevent a newly independent country from gaining the real benefits of their independence
Two recently published books, one on the role in Africa of the US and the other on the Soviet Union on the continent provide greatly contrasting perspectives as well as significant additions to the historiology of Africa’s plight under colonialism and it its post-colonial years, writes Bob Newland
Liberation explicitly rejects the notion of an armed intervention, under any pretext, or of foreign interference in the sovereign affairs of Niger
The twenty first century scramble for Africa is no less significant than that of the nineteenth century and is potentially even more dangerous, argues Steve Bishop