In The Future, ‘Made In China’ Could Become ‘Made In Africa’

Thanks to Beijing’s economic transition, Africa has a chance to pick up some of the industrial production now leaving China.

The Huffington Post - 06/08/2016

There’s a pretty good chance that some of the clothes you’re wearing, the shoes on your feet and even the device you’re using to read this were made in China. Even as its economy slows, China remains the world’s factory, churning out billions of dollars every year of goods. The government, though, wants to change this, which could be a huge opportunity for countries like Ethiopia — and the continent of Africa as a whole.
As China transitions its economy from manufacturing to services, some 85 million jobs will be up for grabs as a lot of that industrial production looks for a new home. Ethiopia, for its part, is aggressively positioning itself as a destination for some of that Chinese manufacturing.
Ethiopia, and Africa in general, may be a tough sale for manufacturers who are always looking to keep costs as low as possible. Compared to regions like Southeast Asia, where most of the outbound Chinese manufacturing is going, Ethiopia’s infrastructure is less developed, its workforce is less educated and its supply chain networks are not as a robust.

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Forgotten genocide: Namibia's quest for reparations - Herero and Namaqua Genocide

Namibia has set a deadline for Germany to respond to demands of reparations for colonial racial atrocities and genocide.

By Hisham Aidi

Al-Jazeera - 7/8/2015

On July 6, a delegation of Namibian leaders, lawyers, and heads of civic organisations, arrived in Berlin hoping to meet with German President Joachim Gauck, to present him with a petition signed by over 2,000 German public figures including members of the Bundestag, the German national parliament.
The document, titled " Genocide is Genocide ", called on the German government to accept "historical responsibility" for the genocide perpetrated against the Herero and Nama people over a century ago.
Germany ruled Namibia from 1884 to 1915.
In January 1904, inhabitants of Namibia, the Herero rose up against German rule, and the colonialists - deploying weaponry that would later be used in World War I - responded mercilessly.
It was in October 1904 that General Lothar von Throtha, the Reich's commander in German "South-West Africa", issued his infamous extermination order - to kill any Herero, armed or not, found within the borders of German colonial territory.
As the Herero fled into the desert towards Botswana, the German authorities sealed off the border. 

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BEST BOOKS ON AFRICAN STUDIES: The African Experience. Pearson. Vincent B. Khapoya. 2013

The African Experience. Pearson. Vincent B. Khapoya. 2013.  

The African Experience is the only interdisciplinary survey to examine this region of the world from geographic, linguistic, social, historical, and political perspectives.     Drawing on research from all of the social sciences, this text captures Africa in its complex totality. The African Experience helps students develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of Africa, one that allows them to grasp the region’s internal dynamics and its evolving place in the world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
•    Chapter 1. The Continent and Its People (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 2. African Traditional Institutions (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 3. Political Development in Historic Africa (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 4. Colonialism and the African Experience (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 5. African Nationalism and the Struggle for Freedom (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 6. African Independence: The First Thirty Years (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 7. The African Struggle for Democracy and Free Markets (The African Experience)
•    Chapter 8. Africa in World Affairs (The African Experience)
•    Chapter-9 The Conditions of Decolonization (Modern Africa)

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BEST BOOKS ON AFRICAN STUDIES - Modern Africa: A Social and Political History By Basil Davidson

This book, revised and enlarged from its first edition, is primarily for students preparing for a variety of intermediate and senior level examinations in which a knowledge of the history of modern Africa is required.....
 









TABLE OF CONTENTS:
•    Chapter-1 The Early Years of the Twentieth Century (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-2 Colonial Africa: to 1930 (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-3 African Responses: to 1930 (Modern Africa)  
•    Chapter-4 Key Ideas for Progress (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-5 Colonial System and the Great Depression (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-6 The Second World War, 1939-1945 (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-7 Towards African Politics (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-8 Colonialism in Crises (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-9 The Conditions of Decolonization (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-10 Raising National Flags: North-East Africa (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-11 Libya and Maghrib (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-12 South of the Sahara: French Colonies (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-13 British West Africa: (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-11 Libya and Maghrib (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-12 South of the Sahara: French Colonies (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-13 British West Africa: (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-14 East and Central Africa: British Settler Colonies (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-15 In Other Empires: Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-16 The 1980s: Unfinished Business (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-17 History Begins A New (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-18 Questions About National Stability (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-19 Questions About Development (Modern Africa)
•    Chapter-20 Questions About Unity

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Africa at LSE Blog 5th Anniversary Reading List: 10 Must-Read Books on African Politics, Society and Economics

6 June 2016 is the five year anniversary of the launch of the Africa at LSE blog. To celebrate the occasion, LSE Review of Books recommends ten illuminating reads on African politics, society and economics. You may also like to check out ten recommended Africa at LSE blog posts to revisit, covering diverse topics such as Africa’s urban transition, the question of penalty shoot-outs in football and Mahatma Gandhi’s political awakening in South Africa. 

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Next time someone says, “But Africans sold themselves into slavery!”, send this article to them

UHURU SOLIDARITY - 08 Sep 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following except from pages 47-50 of Overturning the Culture of Violence, written by Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and printed by Burning Spear Publications, debunks the cynical and anti-black argument that “Africans enslaved themselves.” This argument points to the presence of Africans who collaborated with the European slave masters and “sold” Africans to them in order to shift the responsibility for the slave trade off the shoulders of the European colonial slavemaster and onto the backs of the colonized and enslaved African.

Today, as the voice of the enslaved African community asserts itself in the world and lifts up the demand for reparations, the blame-shifting “African collaborator” argument can be seen gaining traction in universities and bourgeois historical publications, not as an historical argument but as a political defense against the legitimacy of the reparations demand. As an organization of white people working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party to organize white people in solidarity with the African struggle for liberation and reparations, we in the Uhuru Solidarity Movement find it timely to publish this excerpt here:

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Why is Jesus white? - Muhammad Ali

Namibia Genocide and the Second Reich (Germany)