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For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
The New Scramble for Africa The competition for influence will shape the continent’s future. Will the U.S. join? By Walter Russell Mead Share ...
Financial imperialism Michael Hudson, a famous American economist, described this as financial imperialism: a system where creditors, led by the IMF, use debt to extract wealth and dictate policies ...
The latest grab or ‘scramble for Africa’ is very much a metaphor for the anarchy of capitalism. Imperialism operates by the use and export of capital. This in turn means subservience and increased ...
Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining position of US and European imperialism on the world scale, the African continent and its rich resources are increasingly seen as a ...
As has Al-Qaeda. So what does this all have to do with the far-right anti-imperialism of Steve Bannon? James Pogue is a journalist with an extraordinary range. He has reported from Mauritania and the ...
Is Chinese imperialism going to be helpful or harmful to the continent? "No one alive at the close of the 19th century," says David Blair, writing in the Daily Telegraph, "could have missed the ...
This coincided with the “scramble for Africa”, which was a time of political uncertainty. Mizeki followed God’s calling to become a missionary, working closely with the Cowley Fathers. It appears that ...
But in the scramble for influence in the emergent new nations of Africa, the Red Chinese were determined not to be outdone by the Russians.
The third wave (new imperialism) consisted of the Scramble for Africa regulated by the terms of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.
The new scramble for Africa presents both opportunities and risks for Nigeria. Foreign investment offers a pathway to infrastructure development, economic growth, and technological innovation.
Opinion - "Scramble for Africa" historically refers to the late 19th and early 20th centuries when European powers colonised and divided the African continent, seeking political ...