BULLETIN
133 - August 2008
A great deal of attention
is focused on Africa
today, but hidden beneath all the talk about fighting poverty
there are ambitious plans to exploit its enormous wealth. This
widely heterogeneous continent, home to almost 800 million people,
artificially divided into 53 states by European colonialism, is
now under siege in the face of new advances by corporate globalization,
while serving as the stage for the battle between the imperialists
of old - the United States, European Union and Japan - and the
economic and political expansion of China and India. It would
seem that the future of the continent and its peoples is being
decided in the distant seats of the world’s wealth and power.
Within this framework, WRM
is also focusing its attention on Africa -not in order to talk
about Africa, but rather to listen to what Africans themselves
have to say. That is the whole purpose of the August 2008 edition
of the WRM bulletin: to open up a space where Africa can speak
about Africa.
Special
Bulletin Focused on Africa -
August 2008
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