Africa

I hope the SACP continues to decouple from the ANC.

Y'all should read this article.

Everyone should listen to this; it's about 10 minutes long.

Long live the SACP! They may have fallen on hard times, but hopefully they'll decouple from the ANC soon enough.

Niiiiice

Straight from the party of Kwame Nkrumah too!

Hosted by the Claudia Jones School for Political Education.

I'm surprised that the CPUSA is hosting this event as it's a little known topic even among MLs, I feel. They've certainly surprised me before. Anyways, let's see where this leads. Hopefully, others can join.

I was researching it today, as I recently heard about the refugee and humanitarian crisis, however it is super depressing. It's also difficult to know which sources are reliable, as there is conflicting information going around about the conflict.

Brief summary: Tigray (northern province of Ethiopia) held parliamentary elections in September, against the wishes of the federal government, citing coronavirus restrictions as the reason. After the Tigray People's Liberation Front won the election, the Ethiopian government refused to recognise it. The TPLF reportedly attacked a barracks of the federal government's national army (something the TPLF denies), and was subsequently declared a terrorist organisation, leading to a military operation into Tigray to deal with the group. The internet, electricity and phone lines have reportedly been cut off by the government, and ethnic violence has been stoked. I've seen reports of a massacre with 500-600 victims in Mai Kadra. Some sources say it was perpetrated by a militia loyal to the TPLF, some say it was perpetrated by a militia loyal to the government. This has all lead to tens of thousands of refugees fleeing to Sudan.

I'm reading White Supremacy Confronted by Gerald Horne right now (on chapter 7) and apparently Namibia was occupied by South Africa?

"Washington pays $63 million annually for a 10-year lease of the area while China pays $20 million a year, in addition to other investments."

I'm guessing that this means that they favor China more then...

I just started reading this right now after a friend who's Kenyan (or at least has Kenyan roots) gave it to me. Check it out!

Maybe follow along since it's hard enough to find out anything about Africa aside from what outlets like Black Agenda Report gives us.

Spread this around.

A Kenyan song sung in Swahili

I'm reading the second part to this right now.

Technically with China, Japan, and Russia's help, but it seems that China was the most prominent partner in this venture.