Africa Is a Country

Time 2020-09-22 17:03:29

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One takeaway from the climate debate in the US, with consequences for Africans, is that we do not want to reinforce capitalism and imperialism as we save the planet. In Kenya, only the rich and politically connected can afford decent healthcare. Everyone else is a major illness or a road accident away from ruin. Official Ghanaian pan-Africanism is now less motivated by African liberation and solidarity and more by profit incentives. Ghana’s Year of Return is the best example of this. The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse. White South Africans have never really had to look in the proverbial mirror and reflect on where they come from, and how their histories have shaped their current realities, which inform their sense of belonging, shame, and entitlement. When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic content. It is cynically unpolitical, and it’s all bullshit. Senegalese writer Mbougar Sarr on how we are actually informed about symbols we want to bring down, and about those we wish to commemorate. David Graeber (1961-2020) started his career as a scholar studying Madagascar and that informed what became his popular ideas about anarchism, debt, and globalization. News reports claiming that “wet markets” in Asia are the source of the coronavirus obscure the fact that the consumption of wild animals is common in the West. Americans could learn a thing or two from Africans’ history of resisting structural adjustment policies. African societies are failing to systematically capture the true impact of COVID-19. The government of Zimbabwe has decided it does not care whether Zimbabweans live or die. Amilcar Cabral remains inspirational for Africans and non-Africans challenged by injustice and oppression. The imminent and existential danger to Ethiopia is not Abiy Ahmed and an oppressive government. It is violent ethno-nationalism. We need to reimagine our conceptions of feminist justice in South Africa: Putting people in cages is not liberation. The recent suspension of Nigeria’s anti-corruption tsar provides an opportunity to re-assess the country s anti-corruption approach. Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision. The Liverpool striker, Sadio Mane, carries the values of his boyhood home, Bambali, with him. But his football is a product of the European professional game. What can the Senegalese Sadio Mane’s story tell us about the marketing of dreams.

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