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Tripartite Agreements Are Not Democracy: Lessons from the US ElectionsAre there any parallels between the just concluded November 2024 United States elections and the June 2023 Sierra Leone elections? What lessons do the US elections offer to real de…
The Life and Death of Steve BikoThis episode spotlights the life and contributions of South African revolutionary leader, Stephen Bantu Biko to the Black Consciousness Movement and the struggle against Apartheid.
22 Years of the Africanist Press: Looking Ahead...!!December 2024 will mark 22 years since the launch of the Africanist Press. The Africanist Press was established by journalists and academics in December 2002 as an independent me…
The World Bank and Underdevelopment in Africa and Asia: Honoring the Work of John PilgerThis episode examines how World Bank's debts, and high interest rates, cripple African and Asian economies, deepening poverty and underdevelopment in the world's most impoverish co…
The IMF and Jamaica's Development CrisisThis episode examines how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank's structural adjustment policies affected Jamaica’s economic and political development from the early…
Sierra Leone's Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah Speaks On West Africa's Illicit Economic FlowsBonusIn this exclusive interview with KPFA, Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah, editor of the Africanist Press, talks about the deteriorating democratic situation in Sierra Leone and West Africa, il…
African History Series: Corruption, Underdevelopment and the Debt Crisis in JamaicaThis episode examines three key events to illustrate how political corruption undermined Jamaica's development and fueled the country's debt crisis. First, we look at how a US$9.…
African History Series: Samora Machel and the Struggle for MozambiqueSamora Machel was the first President of Mozambique, serving from the country's independence in 1975 until his untimely death in 1986. A leading figure in the struggle for Mozamb…
Milele Energy, the DFC, and US Embassy in Sierra Leone's Corrupt Energy SectorAbout a month ago, the United States International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Nisha Biswal, attended a ceremony in Freetown to launch t…
African History Series: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and African Liberation in South AfricaRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe, described as the forgotten leader of the South African independence struggle, was an anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding president of the Pan Africa…
Corporate Gangsters, Rogue Elites, and Colonial Diplomats in Sierra LeoneIn this episode, we discuss the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)'s acquisition of the Western Area Power Generation Project and the role of the US-…
Dictatorship, Crisis, and Corruption in Sierra LeoneLaunched in early December 2023, the Africanist Press Podcast aims to give voice to African communities through the production of weekly audio broadcasts that analyzes ongoing even…
Sierra Leone's Electricity Corruption and the Lebanon ConnectionIn this episode, we continue to examine the privatization of Sierra Leone's National Power Authority (NPA) in 2011 and the history of the Western Area Power Generation Project. W…
DFC Funding Electricity Corruption in Sierra LeoneIn this episode, we examine the role of the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in Sierra Leone’s electricity corruption, showing how the DFC inherited a corrupt el…
Corporate Gangsters and Electricity Corruption in Sierra LeoneIn 2011, Sierra Leone politicians enacted a new electricity legislation that created two parallel institutions, the Electricity Generation and Transmission Company (EGTC) and the E…
Ernest Koroma, Maada Bio, and Electricity Corruption in Sierra LeoneSierra Leone's Energy Minister, Kanja Sesay announced on Friday that he is resigning from the Maada Bio regime because of the alleged failure to pay outstanding debts owed to the T…
The MCC, DFC Deception and Electricity Corruption in Sierra LeoneThe privatization program in postwar Sierra Leone was supposedly advanced by international financial institutions – the World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank – as a multi-secto…
Sierra Leone: Debts, Disease, and DrugsIn previous episodes, we mentioned how the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) issued more than US$500 million in debts between 2019 and 2023 to the Maada Bio regim…
African History Series: Walter Rodney on Crisis in the PeripheryWalter Rodney was a historian, political activist, and academic. Born in 1942 in Georgetown Guyana, Rodney’s research focused on slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the…
Britain, United States, and Sierra Leone's Debt CrisisIn this episode, we discuss how hidden competition between British financed corporations and United States-backed companies for control of non-transparent service-related contracts…
