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DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The limits of France’s racial memory<br>The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/08/the-limits-of-frances-racial-memory" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/08/th</span><span class="invisible">e-limits-of-frances-racial-memory</span></a></p><p>"Neither Paris Noir nor Fanon is about the Black condition. Both, however, are symptomatic of France’s lingering discomfort with race and simultaneous realization of their need to begin addressing it."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The Climate Finance Crisis</p><p>As Mozambique faces escalating climate disasters, it is shut out of the very funds meant to protect it.</p><p>"An absurd arrangement where countries with established bureaucratic infrastructure navigate funding mechanisms with ease, while nations confronting existential climate threats find themselves penalized for their lack of resources."</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-climate-finance-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/th</span><span class="invisible">e-climate-finance-crisis</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mozambique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozambique</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CarbonCredits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonCredits</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Whose game is remembered?</p><p>The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/whose-game-is-remembered" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/wh</span><span class="invisible">ose-game-is-remembered</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Football</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Soccer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soccer</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Wafcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wafcon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archives</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Helen Zille’s transphobia</p><p>In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/helen-zilles-transphobia" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/he</span><span class="invisible">len-zilles-transphobia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The specter of Bandung</p><p>Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-specter-of-bandung" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/th</span><span class="invisible">e-specter-of-bandung</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BRICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BRICS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The quiet violence of peace deals</p><p>Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-quiet-violence-of-peace-deals" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/th</span><span class="invisible">e-quiet-violence-of-peace-deals</span></a></p><p>"The war over minerals [...] has never ceased; it has only taken different forms. Today, it is waged not only through armed conflict but through the quiet violence of environmental degradation, economic exploitation [...]"</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rwanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rwanda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DRC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
African Music Forum (AMF)<p>Black Rio! Black Power!<br>"In Brazil, soul music dances gave rise to the Black Rio Movement after they became spaces for the political affirmation and resistance of the young Black community in Rio de Janeiro in the 70’s."</p><p>Trailer (EN): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5BN-Gy90s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=YK5BN-Gy90s</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Read: The sound of black identity <a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-sound-of-black-identity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/th</span><span class="invisible">e-sound-of-black-identity/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/SoulMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoulMusic</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Soul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soul</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MustRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MustRead</span></a> Sovereignty or supremacy?</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/sovereignty-or-supremacy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/so</span><span class="invisible">vereignty-or-supremacy</span></a></p><p>"Everyone seems to want a piece of the 'Make America Great Again' fantasy, even though it has nothing to do with us here and everything to do with protecting white supremacy over there."</p><p>"It’s empire by other means—not military occupation, ideological occupation. Colonialism 2.0."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Afrophobic metamorphosis</p><p>Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/afrophobic-metamorphosis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/07/af</span><span class="invisible">rophobic-metamorphosis</span></a></p><p>"sporadic xenophobic 'attacks' morphed into a formalized paramilitaristic 'civil movement,' and the phantasm of the African immigrant was crystallized."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AfroPhobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AfroPhobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Long / <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MustRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MustRead</span></a></p><p>"The convergence of Trump’s tariff nationalism and Musk’s corporate-driven agenda lays bare a hard truth: Africa’s economic fortunes are still far too subject to decisions made elsewhere, for interests other than Africa’s own."</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/06/between-washington-and-beijing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/06/be</span><span class="invisible">tween-washington-and-beijing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AfCFTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AfCFTA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAid</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BRI</span></a></p>
African Music Forum (AMF)<p>The resurgence of Benin sound</p><p>[Don't mix the Beninese Republic, with Benin CIty in Edo State in Nigeria]</p><p>Read: Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national (and international) culture to the center.<br><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/06/the-resurgence-of-benin-sound" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/06/th</span><span class="invisible">e-resurgence-of-benin-sound</span></a></p><p>Listen: Respect Ur Elders By 2Rymce<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdVbvvH92wo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=DdVbvvH92w</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p>On AMF: Edo Funk Explosion <a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/edo-funk-explosion/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/edo-funk-exp</span><span class="invisible">losion/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nigeria</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The global gateway to nowhere</p><p>"[...] as European nations slash already underfunded development budgets and instead prioritize military spending, migration management, and the “competitiveness” of their clean technologies, the Global Gateway is gaining increasing traction as a new tool for pursuing European geopolitical interests, disguised as development finance."</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/the-global-gateway-to-nowhere" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/05/th</span><span class="invisible">e-global-gateway-to-nowhere</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
African Music Forum (AMF)<p>Four Days in Faso - Kwame Brenya &amp; Legon Palmwine Band</p><p>Read: On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.<br><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/a-migrants-tale" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/05/a-</span><span class="invisible">migrants-tale</span></a></p><p>Listen: Poetry, Storytelling, Drama &amp; Music <a href="https://kwabrenyame.bandcamp.com/album/four-days-in-faso" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kwabrenyame.bandcamp.com/album</span><span class="invisible">/four-days-in-faso</span></a><br>Discussing African border issues through Palmwine music, based on true life experiences.</p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Ghana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghana</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/PalmWineMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmWineMusic</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ECOWAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ECOWAS</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Afropolitans and the fantasy of a digital nation</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/afropolitans-and-the-fantasy-of-a-digital-nation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/05/af</span><span class="invisible">ropolitans-and-the-fantasy-of-a-digital-nation</span></a></p><p>"Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web3</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crypto</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Diaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diaspora</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MemeCoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MemeCoin</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Cape Town’s digital nomads chase cheap luxury and scenic backdrops—but behind the matcha lattes and “social impact days” lies a deeper story of economic power, displacement, and global inequality.</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/south-africas-american-refugees" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/05/so</span><span class="invisible">uth-africas-american-refugees</span></a></p><p>"The digital nomad is purely a consumer class, while adding nothing of value to the economy or the country they inhabit (their whole schtick is working for some international company from the comfort of another country)."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>From the vault: 2015</p><p>Does the Gates Foundation do more harm than good?<br>When you have as much money as the Gates Foundation, you can buy your way into some pretty powerful places.</p><p>"[In the book, the sociologist Linsey] McGoey reveals that the new religion of ‘philanthrocapitalism’ – applying business models to giving – is nothing new."</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2015/12/does-the-gates-foundation-do-more-harm-than-good/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2015/12/do</span><span class="invisible">es-the-gates-foundation-do-more-harm-than-good/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Philanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillGates</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>Green hydrogen, old colonialism</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/green-hydrogen-old-colonialism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/05/gr</span><span class="invisible">een-hydrogen-old-colonialism</span></a></p><p>The EU’s hydrogen push in North Africa is sold as climate progress, but beneath the green gloss lies a familiar story of extraction, debt, and dispossession.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tunisia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tunisia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Algeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algeria</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>From the vault: 2016</p><p>The ‘Big Man’ Syndrome in Africa<br>Why do so many African leaders overstay their welcome or break electoral rules?</p><p>"There is a joke about Angola: 'Who is the public in Angola?' 'The President.' 'Where does all the money go?' 'To the public.'"</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2016/03/the-big-man-syndrome-in-africa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2016/03/th</span><span class="invisible">e-big-man-syndrome-in-africa/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>From the vault: 2016</p><p>The Ghost of the IMF’s Past</p><p>The IMF’s latest tussle with the government of Mozambique and Voodoo Economics</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2016/05/the-ghost-of-the-imfs-past/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2016/05/th</span><span class="invisible">e-ghost-of-the-imfs-past/</span></a></p><p>If you want to read some examples explaining the continent's state...</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IMF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMF</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The end of US empire is not the end of the world</p><p>"We must contend with a sobering reality: The US may be willing to destroy the world before it surrenders its imperial self-image. This suicidal impulse—visible in its economic warfare and cultural nihilism—should not be underestimated. If empire cannot imagine a future in which it does not lead, it may instead choose to make that future unlivable for everyone else."</p><p><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/the-end-of-us-empire-is-not-the-end-of-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/05/th</span><span class="invisible">e-end-of-us-empire-is-not-the-end-of-the-world</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BRICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BRICS</span></a></p>
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