Patrick Bond
In Fortaleza, BRICS became co-dependent upon eco-financial imperialism
BRICS leaders in Fortaleza, Brazil.
Nigeria: Africa’s number one economy -- for wealth evaporation
In 2012, neoliberalism catalysed a nati
Extreme weather, more extreme greenhouse gas emissions beckon urgent activism
By Patrick Bond, Durban
Obama in South Africa: Washington tells Pretoria how to ‘play the game’ in Africa
Protesters greet Obama, June 28, 2013.
South Africa’s ‘sub-imperial’ seductions
By Patrick Bond
BRICS: ‘Anti-imperialist’ or ‘sub-imperialist’?
South African President Jacob Zuma and friend.
Africa’s ‘rising’ or overdue uprising?
By Patrick Bond
January 1, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Either:
1) Africa owes its takeoff to a variety of accelerators, nearly all of them external and occurring in the past 10 years:
- billions of dollars in aid, especially to fight HIV/AIDS and malaria;
- tens of billions of dollars in foreign-debt cancellations;
- a concurrent interest in Africa’s natural resources, led by China; and
- the rapid spread of mobile phones, from a few million in 2000 to more than 750 million today.
Business increasingly dominates foreign interest in Africa. Investment first outpaced aid in 2006 and now doubles it.
Or: