- cross-posted to:
- thedeprogram@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- thedeprogram@lemmit.online
In their minds, Africa belongs to them—our lands, our riches are theirs. They cannot conceive of Africans emancipating themselves, lifting their heads above water, and standing up to them. …
This is their stereotype: they are the Empire of Good, … and we are the Empire of Slaves. This is the imperialist worldview.
As far as I have seen, he gives me hope for the future of this world, especially considering how young he is.
I’m very optimistic about overall developments happening in Africa right now. It seems like western imperialism is finally being defeated at scale.
Definitely, I wish I knew some media that covers Africa as a whole. With all of the US’s attention on the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian corners of Asia, it has neglected both Latin America and Africa in political struggle. Unlike the former’s proximity to the US, Africa is capable of mobilizing decolonial struggle with much more force. I think there is many reasons for this ‘sudden’ resistance. For one I think racism plays a role in the West underestimating African potential to challenge it (plus there’s no chosen big bad boogey man to commit an arms race with). As well as not understanding all the political avenues of struggle due to the negligence and homogenization of the diverse cultures of Africa. But secondly I think the alienation of Africa’s natural resources from the finance brained West via industrial middle men countries like China, leads the West to totally negate Africa in the manufactured products they consume, or at least I haven’t seen much awareness of it.
I suspect two main factors have been economic and material support from China as well as the west getting bogged down in their proxy war in Ukraine. US is powerful, but it can’t be everywhere at once. The past two years significantly depleted US military stocks, and have caused massive economic damage to the west as a whole. I suspect this was the catalyst for the anti-colonial uprising in Africa that we’re seeing.
Listening to it right now. Really good!
It’s great to see this. Hopefully the west didn’t get its claws in again. But we know they’ll try.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: