Africa
Africa coup trend accelerates: Gabon’s military overthrows corrupt Bongo family’s 55-year rule
August 31, 2023The country is rich with oil, but its people remain in poverty.
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Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
August 24, 2023Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.
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Níger es el último golpe anticolonial en África
August 7, 2023A las 3 a. m. del 26 de julio de 2023, la guardia presidencial detuvo al presidente Mohamed Bazoum en Niamey, la capital de Níger. Las tropas, encabezadas por el general de brigada Abdourahmane Tchiani, cerraron...
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Niger is just the latest in a string of anti-colonial coups in Africa
August 7, 2023Central-western Africa has faced a cascade of crises and plundering of natural resources by former colonial powers, contributing to the turmoil we are seeing today.
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‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ powerful exploration of Ugandan democracy and resistance
August 2, 2023Museveni has been the president since 1986, but as this new documentary shows, he doesn’t rule without facing resistance.
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