White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

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Silencing and Lies: The death of Hammarskjöld, Congolese uranium, and the annexation of history', lecture given to the Dag Hammarskjöld Programme, Voksenaasen, Oslo, Norway Though at first I didn't like the sort of scattergun approach.. I grew to appreciate it as it almost felt like the author was making sure I was paying attention. As a child of parents born in the middle of all that was going on I found myself tracing the many dates to where my family was, or what my parents must of been doing at whatever age they were, etc. which I enjoyed. I enjoy history and enjoyed learning more about the details of what was happening.. maybe my personal infatuation with understanding more about my home country led it but I was ready to learn more. The appreciation I have for Nkrumah and those who did what they could for the democratically elected leaders of the DRC has grown. There are always times you learn about people in high or low spaces that play a great part.. passionately defending the truth no matter what the consequence to be is admirable. Prize Recipients". Windham Campbell Prizes 2023. Windham Campbell Prizes . Retrieved 21 April 2023. In fact, the agents Nkrumah feared were already present. Not long after the event began, Ghanaian police arrested a journalist who had been hiding in one of the conference rooms while apparently trying to record a closed breakout session. As it was later discovered, the journalist actually worked for a CIA front organization, one of many represented at the event.

The differences between the Soviet and American approaches to Cold War intervention in the Third World are striking. Both used ‘intimate’ relationships between intelligence agents and anti-colonial activists to shape the outcome of decolonisation. But while many of Telepneva’s mezhdunarodniki considered their work a ‘sacred duty’, Williams’s CIA agents were largely indifferent to the effects of their actions. A CIA staff manual from 1954 recommended ‘a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface’ as the simplest way to cover up a murder. Poison was better still. Sidney Gottlieb, a biochemist who had overseen the CIA’s drug experiments, developed a kit to poison Lumumba and planned to travel to Léopoldville to hand it over to Devlin. But Devlin realised he wasn’t likely to get close enough and cabled his minders requesting a rifle instead. ‘HUNTING GOOD HERE,’ he wrote, ‘WHEN LIGHTS RIGHT.’ A bit muddled there. Toohey is an Irish name, and so, oft as not, is Keating. Also, “Wasp” and “Irish” are not mutually exclusive classes. Strictly speaking, WASP means upper-class East Coast elite. That’s what Digby Baltzell meant by it, and he coined the acronym. I don’t think anyone in The Fountainhead would really qualify, moreover I doubt Ayn Rand crossed paths with many Social Register types. American society remained a closed book to her, so she could let her imagination soar. Like Edna Ferber writing about rich Texas cattlemen in Giant. Indigenous Healing and Medicinal Practices in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Tanzania: Interview with Dr Simon Mutebi In connection with the publication of her book, The People's King, Susan was interviewed on radio on the Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; Women’s Hour, Radio 4; local UK radio stations; Gyles Brandreth Show, LBC; and CBC Radio. On television, she was interviewed on BBC Newsnight; Channel 4 News; Sky News; BBC News 24; Canadian Broadcasting (CBC); and Russian television.A deeply distressing history of CIA involvement in plots to eliminate certain regimes in Africa, particularly in the Congo and Ghana, just as the countries shook off European colonial rule in the mid-20th century. Williams' book focuses in particular on the last few years of the 1950s and first half of the 1960s, examining the attempts of the CIA to manipulate the politics and frustrate the liberation movements in Ghana and Congo. Williams' narrative--some of it new primarily in the level of detail and layers of evidence she brings to the discussion--is an indictment of U.S. policy, but also captures the spirit of decolonization and the liberation movements associated with it. Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso from 1983-1987, is currently in the news because an investigation has just begun into his assassination. This collection of his interviews and speeches provides a window on his programmes to improve people’s lives, involving land redistribution, literacy and education, a focus on women’s rights and a massive vaccination scheme. Revered as Africa’s Che Guevara, Sankara defied neocolonial control by France, the former colonial power, and the US. He described debt, presented as aid, as “neocolonialism, in which colonisers transformed themselves into ‘technical assistance’. We should say ‘technical assassins’.” Dag Hammarskjold and the Decolonisation of Africa. Ndola airport, Northern Rhodesia, 17-18 September 1961

This book is coedited by Ann Oakley and Susan Williams. It is a second edition of a book published originally by UCL Press in 1994. It will be Volume 25 of ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WELFARE AND THE STATE This book has one of the most misleading titles of all time. It seems like it’s going to be a sweeping geopolitical history of post WW2 Africa in relation to the Breton-Woods institutions, US state department, and CIA. Something along the lines of William Blum’s Killing Hope, but with a somewhat narrower focus.

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Susan was a convenor with Professor Robert Holland of this one day conference, which looked at Independence Day ‘moments’ in several British colonies – India, Pakistan, Ghana, Guyana and Zimbabwe; it also examined the role of the media, of the monarchy, and of independence anniversaries. This focus was complemented by a comparative dimension, looking at how such junctures – amongst the most important in the twentieth century – were conducted in the French Empire.

A photograph from January 1975, reprinted in Telepneva’s book, shows Neto, Roberto and Savimbi at the signing of the Alvor Agreement, which set the terms for a transitional government in Angola: an arrangement that split power equally between the three liberation movements. Any hope of peace was shortlived. In a closed session of the Soviet Solidarity Committee in June 1975, Petr Manchkha, another second generation mezhdunarodnik and head of the Africa section of the International Department, argued (correctly) that the MPLA was caught up in a ‘serious international imperialist conspiracy’ involving the US, South Africa and Zaire. On 14 October, South Africa launched a full-scale armoured invasion from South-West Africa (now Namibia). China has been described as the latest neocolonial power in Africa. In his short story, The Sale, Huchu takes China’s investments in his own country, Zimbabwe, to a menacing extreme. In his dystopian world, neocolonialism has mutated into a terrifying form, where China and the US buy up countries heavily in debt. When the deficit remains, the citizens are sold and then controlled and surveilled by drones. At the centre of this chilling story is China’s intention to bulldoze the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe, now the “property of Ling Lee Antiquities Enterprises and Debt Recovery”. Thank you to NetGalley, Perseus Books, and PublicAffairs for an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

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We also get a picture of the wider struggle for independence across Africa particularly in the Portuguese colonies. Once again the dirty paws of the CIA are all over this. Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi from Angola are identified as CIA “assets.” I have studied the damage of the United States policy in South and Central America relative to the cold war for a many years. I have not read as much about Africa. I have to say that the detail provided in this book clearly describes the lengths to which the CIA was willing to go to win the cold war at all costs in Africa and the price paid by those who stood in the way. My general assumption is that things I have read about Central and South America, as bad as they might have appeared to me, were probably worse. In November 1959, the CIA created a dedicated Africa division. According to British researcher Susan Williams, the CIA's brief in Africa was to, by any means imaginable, secure American power across the continent.