Tag: africa

Gold, Lithium, and the Chains of Empire: Zimbabwe, China, and the Battle to Break the Colonial Economy

The imperial press calls Zimbabwe’s recovery “bizarre,” revealing more about empire’s ideology than Africa’s reality. Beneath the headlines lies a material transformation driven by gold, lithium, labor, and survival within a system built to constrain it. As Zimbabwe pushes toward beneficiation and partners with China, it enters a global struggle over who controls resources, industry,... Continue Reading →

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Africa Against the World Market: Hosea Jaffe, Imperialism, and the Long Struggle for Liberation

A Weaponized Intellects review of A History of Africa that excavates Hosea Jaffe’s uncompromising analysis of colonialism, class formation, and imperial domination—situating his intervention within the liberation struggles of his time and assessing its enduring relevance for understanding Africa, the world system, and the unfinished project of revolutionary transformation today. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized... Continue Reading →

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From Imperial Plunder to Socialist Possibility: Capitalism, Dependency, and the Road to Sovereign Development

Development is not a neutral path but a historical process forged through conquest, extraction, and domination. Underdevelopment is not a failure to advance, but the condition produced by integration into a world system structured by imperial power. As the crisis of global capitalism deepens and the space for sovereign maneuver widens yet destabilizes, nations are... Continue Reading →

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U.S. Empire, Somaliland, and the Sale of Sovereignty at the Red Sea Chokepoint

A Military.com analysis presents U.S. recognition of Somaliland as pragmatic strategy, disguising a deeper imperial project. The colonial fracture between British and Italian Somaliland, combined with postcolonial crisis, has been repurposed into an opening for external intervention. What appears as diplomacy is in fact the conversion of territory into infrastructure—Berbera as port, base, and extractive... Continue Reading →

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After the Empire — Before the Collapse

When Emmanuel Todd wrote After the Empire, Washington still believed it ruled a permanent unipolar world. Todd saw something different: an empire sustained less by production than by financial tribute and military spectacle. Two decades later the contradictions he described—economic dependency, micromilitarism, and ideological decay—have matured into the turbulent transition now reshaping global power.By Prince... Continue Reading →

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The Guardian’s “Raw Deal” and Washington’s Fine Print: Zambia, Health Aid, and the Politics of Conditional Care

A liberal alarm rings in the pages of The Guardian, exposing troubling terms while leaving the aid architecture itself intact. The material terrain reveals how debt-shaped constraints narrow Zambia’s choices before any negotiation begins. The agreement fuses life-sustaining health systems with mineral governance and long-term informational commitments. Across the Global South, emerging refusals and alternative... Continue Reading →

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Axel Springer, the Africa Finance Corporation, and the Vault: Gold, Monetary Anxiety, and the Battle Over Who Controls the Chain

A trillion dollars in untapped gold is sold as opportunity in an age of financial instability. The numbers glitter, but the narrative abstracts extraction from labor, land, and history. Reserve accumulation rises alongside illicit outflows, smuggling networks, and toxic exposure. The real struggle is not over gold in the vault, but over who governs the... Continue Reading →

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