MALAWI PRESIDENT ON WESTERN HYPOCRISY

Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, president of the Republic of Malawi, called out the hypocrisy of the West during his 21 September address at 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. He said peace is an impossibility in a world where actions taken promote war and conflict. His words, indeed, bear a reflection of what we are witnessing, as in the case of this summer’s coup in Niger that exposed French colonial influence and the 7 October escalation of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Both of these conflicts demonstrate Western hypocrisy in preaching peace, but funding war and subversions.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS

The besieged Gaza Strip has been transformed over several years into what many say is a concentration camp. Since the 7 October escalation of the 75-year conflict between Israel and Palestine, about one million Palestinians have been subjected to genocide after being forced to flee Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion. Another one million people remain trapped inside the enclave, with no or limited access to electricity, water, food, fuel and medicine. Due to our colonial past, Africans know too well about colonial oppression and concentration camps that had claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, from Kenya to South Africa. Here’s a brief look into the history of concentration camps to remind you of what history has not forgotten.

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COLONIALISM BY OTHER MEANS

China is bad, China is bad, China is bad. I am sure you have heard this a million times before about Africa. But what about how money is siphoned away from Africa by the West? Decades after gaining independence, most African countries have little to no control over their vital natural resources. About 100 Western companies on the London Stock Exchange control the lion’s share of Africa’s resources, bleeding the continent billions of dollars annually.

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'KING CHARLES HAS NOTHING TO APOLOGISE FOR', WE DISAGREE!

Controversial Australian TV host Andrew Bolt says King Charles demeaned the Crown by addressing Britain's ugly colonial past during his recent visit to Kenya. He thinks Kenyans should at least be grateful for the gifts of colonialism - the English language, democracy and many others. We react to this attempt to whitewash the untold tragedy of colonialism in Kenya and the implications of the King's 'non-apology' apology.
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ISRAEL'S ANTI-AFRICAN RACISM

Israel is a racist state, and not just to Palestinians. Africans fleeing their homes for reasons such as war or hunger have found themselves on the receiving end of racially motivated abuses. In this snippet of a documentary from 2012, Max Blumenthal chronicles the anti-Black character prevalent in Israeli society, including at high levels of government.

In the context of Palestine, several Africans have asked, what does this have to do with Africa? First, support for the oppressed should carry no such conditions, and second, this video shows exactly why the two struggles are interconnected. Zionism as an ideology promotes the idea of one group of people as superior to others. It is thus inevitable that the state created exclusively for Jews would discriminate against Africans.

It goes further. Even African Jews have not been spared. Israel sterilized Ethiopian women to ensure that the white majority Jewish state doesn’t get ‘diluted’.

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HOW U.S. COPS USE ISRAELI TACTICS AGAINST AFRICANS

Among the many thousands who came to the Capitol in Washington DC this weekend to call for a ceasefire in Gaza were many Africans in America and groups representing their interest.

As well as wanting an end to the carnage, some also see similarities in they way Israel controls Palestinians and America’s aggressive policing of Blacks.

There is in fact close cooperation between US and Israeli police, and tactics perfected against Palestinians are being imported into cities like Atlanta, Georgia, half of whose population consists of Africans in America.

We spoke to an activist from Atlanta’s Black Alliance for Peace who’d travelled all the way up to the huge pro-Palestinian rally in DC to discuss this and more.

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DON’T TELL US HOW TO SPEAK!

Just as any two living creatures have a common ancestor in the tree of life, so any two languages have a common tongue from which they ultimately derived. Scientists currently believe that the world’s 6,000 modern languages, from English to Mandarin, can all be traced back to a ‘mother tongue’ - an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago. Differently put: all languages are descended from primordial African!

This makes it all the more galling that Africans who visit, work or live outside of the continent are often taunted and laughed at because sometimes they don’t pronounce English words ‘properly’ - even though these words are ‘deviations’ (however far removed) from African-language words.

Continued….The continent’s turbulent history of colonisation is the reason for the use of European languages in African schools, commerce and governments today. However, something that is overlooked is that most Africans are accustomed to speaking multiple languages, perhaps three or more throughout the course of a single day.

That’s one reason Africans mispronounce words - they can speak other languages fluently enough for those languages to interfere with their English.

In this clip, Anna Mwalagho (@mamaafricaanna) - an African storyteller living in the United States - gives a passionate defence of the uniqueness of African accents, arguing that this diversity is something to celebrate and be proud of.

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DESPERATE FRANCE WARNS OF MORE NIGER SANCTIONS

You can tell France is getting increasingly desperate about Niger. Its foreign minister Catherine Colonna has just warned that Paris may whack more sanctions on Niamey if its preferred leader - deposed President Bazoum - isn’t given his job back.

Paris, like the EU, has already suspended development aid, as it reels from the popular coup that swept an anti-imperialist military leadership to power in its former colony. The pro-French West African bloc ECOWAS has also imposed tough anti-revolutionary measures, cutting vital electricity supplies and freezing assets.

Colonna - speaking in Abuja last week - expressed support for the pressure being piled on Niger by regional nations to reverse the coup. This has included the threat of a military intervention by the ECOWAS standby force, which has been activated to combat readiness.

Continued…..There are many stages of grief in any break up. France is still stuck at the anger and denial stages. How long till we reach acceptance, do you reckon? Let us know in the comments!

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MALCOLM X: ON ZIONIST LOGIC

In 1964, Malcolm X visited Gaza to witness first-hand the horrors of Israeli occupation. He was, in many ways, transformed by his experience, which gave him a new perspective on the Zionist project. He would go on from that point to be a vocal critic of Zionism, denouncing it in the newspaper, The Egyptian Gazette, as well as on US university campuses.

During his time in Gaza, he was accompanied by Palestinian poet Harun Hashim Rashid, who described Malcolm X, saying that he, “came to Gaza with a strong desire to learn about the Palestinian cause. He was a true Muslim who shed tears many times as he was hearing about the tragedies of Palestinians. He was a humanist and Muslim in his essence.”

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MALEMA OWNS BBC PRESENTER

Does the BBC ever get the better of South Africa’s biggest pan-African party? Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, was interviewed earlier this year by the show HARDtalk. But the host was soon back-peddling after bringing up 15-year-old, unproven claims of tax irregularities. He was also given a lesson in what the EFF stands for after suggesting it admires authoritarianism.

For those of you who don’t know, the EFF was founded a decade ago and is now South Africa’s third-largest party. Malema was formerly the President of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from 2008 until 2012. While in charge, he campaigned for the nationalisation of South Africa's mining industry and the expropriation of land without compensation. Policy positions the EFF has adopted.

Continued….Former South African President Jacob Zuma said Malema is a ‘future leader’ for the country. Interviews like this one show the qualities his supporters admire—a straight talker and principled.

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SANCTIONS HURT NIGER

On 26 October, Nigerien Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine recorded this BBC interview on the hardships that economic sanctions have caused for Niger. Just three days prior, the European Union convened to work out a plan to impose new sanctions on the West African state. This comes after neighbouring African member states in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) slapped sanctions shortly after the late July coup that ousted a Western-friendly Nigerien president, Mohamed Bazoum. Additional EU sanctions are likely to drastically increase poverty and hunger. However, Nigeriens are proud of their post-coup government, which is choosing to defend African sovereignty and expel imperialist occupying military forces, such as France and the United States.

How, as Africans, should we respond to Niger under imperialist attack? Let us know in the comments.

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SOUTH AFRICA FM DESTROYS FAKE NEWS

Let's be honest in reporting on the Palestine-Israel conflict, urged South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor.

She was responding to Cornelius Mulder, a member of the South African National Assembly. He had asked during Pandor's 7 November address to the elected body if the South African government denies widespread claims of Palestinian resistance group Hamas beheading babies. That went viral after Nicole Zedeck, a reporter with Tel Aviv-based news channel, i24, said during a live broadcast on 10 October that she had spoken to Israeli soldiers who claimed to have seen bodies of babies that Hamas had decapitated. US President Joe Biden later walked back his claim that he had seen images of decapitated babies. Israeli authorities also confirmed the claims are unverified.

Continued….Pandor amplified the facts that some quarters are trying to downplay: The Palestinian people had been denied their human rights for long before the 7 October escalation in Gaza.

This exchange came after Pandor announced that South Africa had recalled its ambassador in Israel on 6 November, in condemnation of Israel's attacks on Palestine. More than 10,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 155 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed since the conflict between Palestine and Israel escalated 7 October. Meanwhile, about 1,400 Israelis have been killed, with approximately 200 held hostage.

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BRICS BENEFITS FOR EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA

Two more African countries are set to join the BRICS economic bloc of nations come January 1st. Here’s a look at what benefits Egypt and Ethiopia could reap - everything from access to new markets and de-dollarisation, to de-escalatory mediation in their Nile-damn dispute.

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GAZA ‘GENOCIDE’ SOUTH AFRICA RECALLS DIPLOMATS

South Africa’s recalled its diplomats from Israel and described Tel Aviv’s assault on Gaza ‘genocide’.
It’s also mulling the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.

Ten thousand Palestinians have been killed so far by the bombardment, more than 4000 of them children. And South African authorities didn’t hold back explaining their decision.

So far, nine countries have slashed relations with Tel Aviv since the escalation in hostilities, with South Africa again showing it's a major African ally to Palestine.

Alongside Algeria, it poured cold water on Israel’s bid to join the African Union two years ago. It also holds firm the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine is the only long-term hope for peace.

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BRITS MUST RETURN KENYAN LAND

GB news host Patrick Christys uses the Norman invasion of the UK to argue that Britain doesn’t owe Kenya reparations for colonisation. But it doesn’t hold water! Can he point to vast landholding companies in the UK owned by the Normans and Vikings today?

Land is the most treasured resource in Kenya, yet many Kenyans are landless. A significant reason is the outright theft of prime land by British colonialists and international corporations, such as Finlays, which owns enormous tea estates in the country.

Dispossessed Kenyans wouldn’t lose sleep over an apology if their land is restituted.

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MALEMA: TAKE NETANYAHU TO THE HAGUE

Pan-African leader Julius Malema has called on the International Criminal Court to issue a warrant of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for atrocities his government has committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

During a 5 November address to members of his party in Johannesburg, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) president said Israel has crossed the line by engaging in acts, such as bombing refugee camps and hospitals.

Israel has ramped up its bombardment of Gaza since October 7, when the 75-year-old conflict between Palestine and the Zionist state escalated.

For example, on 17 October, about 500 people were killed when Gaza’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was hit by what many believe to be an Israeli air strike. Tel Aviv denied being behind the carnage, claiming instead that a missile that originated from within Gaza hit the medical facility.

Continued……However, military analysts say only Israel has the kind of weapons that could have hit and destroyed the hospital in the manner in which it did.

Israeli also frequently targets ambulances ferrying wounded Palestinians to hospitals.

Targeting medical facilities and their workers is a violation of various international laws, including several articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949), as well as resolution 2675, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1970.

Since 7 October, more than 10,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have been killed .

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