That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every coup in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country.

Critical Readings:

  • Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.
  • Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa by T.D. Harper-Shipman.

Recommended readings:

  • Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawaii Statehood by Dean Itsugi Saranillio.
  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl.
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    there are vast social media disinformation networks employed by russia and now deceased prygozhin, which could be one of the way russia and wagner have become popular among the demonstrants. perhaps theres some other link(such as the economic cooperation between russia and african states), but i have no knowledge on state of affairs in africa.

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      That’s very true. Nearly all major nations employ cyber-criminals in other countries to spread narratives and control dissent. I don’t see why Africa would be any different in being targeted. I’m pretty involved in local Ghanaian affairs through local Ghanaian friends and family, and I’ve yet to see anything suggesting he or his support Russia, but it’s such a small sample size from only one country, I hesitate to use it as evidence for or against anything. He does support the coup though, and he’s even more angry at ECOWAS than I am, and his own government which he believes is gearing up for war.

      I’ll ask him what he thinks of Russia though, I don’t think I’ve ever directly broached the subject with him.