AfricaFocus Bulletin
June 14, 2021 USA/Global: Bad Days for Big Oil (except in the GOP)
“Fossil fuel companies are having a big reckoning with climate change this week. Shareholders for Exxon and Chevron voted for measures that could force them to take more responsibility for their emissions, while a Dutch court is forcing Shell to slash its pollution.” - The Verge, May 26, 2021
May 31, 2021 Mozambique/Global: Fossil Fuels, Debt, and Corruption
“The scandal of Mozambique’s “hidden debts” has already cost the
country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an
additional two million people into poverty, according to a detailed
study of the costs and consequences of the debt published on Friday
by the anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP),
and its Norwegian partner, the Christian Michelsen Institute. The
term “hidden debts” refers to illicit loans of over two billion US
dollars from the banks Credit Suisse and VTB of Russia in 2013 and
2014 to three fraudulent, security–linked Mozambican companies –
Proindicus, Ematum (Mozambique Tuna Company), and MAM (Mozambique
Asset Management).” - report by Centre for Public Integrity
(Mozambique) and Christian Michelsen Institute (Norway)
May 31, 2021 Mozambique/Global: War, Intervention, and Solidarity
“No amount of international military assistance will, within two years, create a fighting force that can combat the insurgency. Two other factors complicate external support. Foreign intervention is likely to provoke a response from Islamic State to provide weapons and training to the insurgents. And the fight is already underway between factions in Frelimo over the upcoming 2024 elections. Cabo Delgado politics and economics, the police and military, and the war itself are already caught up in the bitter infighting. Thus the war seems likely to escalate and continue until a new president is in place in 2025.” - Joseph Hanlon
May 17, 2021 Africa/Global: Decolonizing Medical Technology
“A continent of 1.2 billion people should not have to import 99% of its vaccines. But that is the tragic reality for Africa. Fixing the lack of home-grown manufacturing capacity has become a top priority for Africa’s policymakers. Last week, 40,000 people, including researchers, business leaders and members of civil-society groups, joined heads of state for a two-day online summit designed to share the latest developments and kick-start fresh thinking on how to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa.” - Nature magazine editorial, April 21, 2021
May 3, 2021 Africa/Global: African-Language Literature in Global Scholarship
“Broad early modern comparative projects often fail to address Africa
at all. A search of the MLAIB [Modern Language Association
International Bibliography] finds that the number of pieces published
in the last thirty years on the subject of 'globalization' is in the
thousands, and yet only 5 per cent of them address Africa or African
countries. When it comes to eighteenth-century studies, the exclusion
is total: not one of the pieces on globalization addresses Africa or
African countries. Not one. … This is more than unfortunate. No
arena of study can be successful that has Africa as a lacuna. “ —
Wendy Laura Belcher
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April 19, 2021
Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity
April 6, 2021
Africa/Global: People's Vaccine vs. Vaccine Apartheid
March 22, 2021
Sahel: Questioning Counterterrorism?
March 8, 2021
USA/Global: Taxing the Tech Giants
February 22, 2021
Africa/Global: The Inequality Virus
February 8, 2021
Ethiopia: No End to War in Devastated Tigray
January 26, 2021
Africa/Global: Distant Horizon for Vaccine Equity
December 14, 2020
Africa/Global: State of Tax Justice 2020
November 30, 2020
USA/Africa: Build Back Better on Africa Policy
November 30, 2020
USA/Global: On Climate, How Much Will Be New?
November 18, 2020
Ethiopia: Not Too Late to Step Back from War?
October 23, 2020
Nigeria: A New Generation Steps Up
October 13, 2020
Africa/Global: The Future's Not in Plastics
September 28, 2020
USA/Global: Millions Displaced by US Post-9/11 Wars
September 23, 2020
USA/Global: Overhauling U.S. Foreign Policy
September 14, 2020
India/Africa: Common Threads of Kanga and Vitenge
August 24, 2020
USA/Global: Divest from Violent Policing and Endless Wars, Part Two
August 24, 2020
USA/Global: Divest from Violent Policing and Endless Wars, Part One
August 3, 2020
Africa/Global: Preventing the Next Pandemic
July 20, 2020
South Africa: Covid-19 Response Failing; How to Do Better
July 6, 2020
Africa/Global: Not Pessimism or Optimism but Possibilism
June 22, 2020
Africa/Global: Fossil Fuel Viability to Decline Sharply
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