‘Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara

http://thisisafrica.me/debt-cleverly-managed-reconquest-africa-thomas-sankara/

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Long read…could not fit this page. Anticlick crusaders…Nawaona…UPUUUUS

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bookmarked.
At the time of his speech it was clear, just a couple of decades into independence, that African countries were quickly becoming financial slaves. Interest rates rose sharply in the 1980s, but governments continued to borrow more and more. Between 1982 and 1990, African debt doubled from US$140 billion to US$270 billion. Sankara rightly predicted that this would cripple African development for generations to come. Despite debt relief programs, which have resulted in increased spending on health and education in African countries, Jubilee Debt Campaign estimates that in 2008, low income countries paid over US $20 million a day to rich countries.

And so, for us today, the final challenge rests not in finding more Sankaras, but in becoming them – in bringing these ideas to life. “You have to dare to look reality in the face and take a whack at some of the long-standing privileges,” Sankara said, “so long-standing in fact that they seem to have become normal, unquestionable.” And that’s the most daunting thing of all, because it requires a struggle with the person in the mirror.

[SIZE=5]A week before he died, Sankara said, “revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, but you cannot kill ideas”. And so, for us today, the final challenge rests not in finding more Sankaras, but in becoming them – in bringing these ideas to life.
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In a world that only answers to money, everything is for sale – democracy, freedom, dignity, integrity. Thomas Sankara bucked this trend, and in so doing struck at the very core of the international system of control – because for once, the world was faced with an African leader it could neither buy nor co-opt.

‘Capgemini and Merrill Lynch estimate in their latest World Wealth Report that Africa has about 100,000 “high net worth individuals” with a total of $1.2 trillion in liquid assets. The debts, on the other hand, are owed by the African people as a whole through their governments.’

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Soma “Confessions of an economic hitman” you will want to kill every whiteman you come across !

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I rem watching a documentary on the hitman assigned in congo. These whites are fucked up as hell. Hapo ndipo mtu hujua msee mwenzako ako better kuliko nyakerû

Name of this documentary priss

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yea please give a link to this documentary

Lemmie rummage through what i can remember…will post it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsB07CcSNw

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French-Afrique relations come to mind. France has helped dictators remain in power like Paul Biya (who spends a third of his time in France), Sassou Nguesso, Omar and Ali Bongo, etc

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