DJM (freelance for hire)Who gets to be a civilian?
Often in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/who-gets-to-be-a-civilian
Could expanding protected land undermine biodiversity?
Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/could-expanding-protected-land-undermine-biodiversity
#Africa #WestAfrica #Conservation #Colonialism #Mining #AIAC
Where mining and conservation meet
Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.
“the reinvention of nature as capital”
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/where-mining-and-conservation-meet
Trumpism in Nigeria
Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation?
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/trumpism-in-nigeria
"Naming Trump’s Nigeria project for what it is—a racial-capitalist strategy that converts identity into imperial advantage—clears conceptual space for a different politics."
The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by [the Iran] war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africa—and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/after-the-subcontracting-state
Adapted from "When Tehran Burns, the Horn Bleeds": https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/03/19/when-tehran-burns-the-horn-bleeds/
Slow death by food
Illegal gold mining is poisoning Ghana’s soil and rivers, seeping into its crops and seafood, and turning the national food system into a long-term public health crisis.
"the most potent form of ecological violence"
Please compare:
- "This Billionaire Traded Glam for a Mission to Industrialize Nigeria" in NYT (archive: https://archive.is/h4nNb ), heavily debunked here: https://www.1914reader.com/p/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print
with
- Aliko Dangote needs the Nigerian state to thrive (2018 - AIAC)
https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/entrepreneurs-in-africa-need-a-strong-state-to-thrive
(it all started under Abacha's dictatorship, himself a kleptocrat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha )
African Music Forum (AMF)As you probably already know, following the posts here, I would never write this phrase: "his [Fela Kuti] influence persisted in contemporary Nigerian music, now called Afrobeats." Never...
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/afrobeats-after-fela
BTW, Amapiano, used extensively in Wizkid's album, is from South Africa...
We, the illegals of France
France’s mass deportation orders reveal how colonial logics persist in migration policy, turning former subjects into administrative problems to be expelled.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/02/we-the-illegals-of-france
A world reimagined in Black
By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/02/a-world-reimagined-in-black
Review of French's book "The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide" (2025)
#Africa #AIAC #Books #Ghana #Colonialism #PanAfricanism #Diaspora
