Hello, I'm Jens Wolfakis, I'm at Novara Media and I have a message for you, the best way of

underpinning any kind of potential resistance to a very toxic establishment without being

populist anti-establishment and by supporting good, irrational, humanist causes is to support

left-wing media like Novara Media. Novara Media and all such media need your support

because they certainly do not have the support of the establishment. Kapadeem.

In 1955, delegates of 29 countries from across Asia and Africa gathered in

banding Indonesia for the world's first Afro-Asian conference. As the once great ruins of empire

sank like Ozemandius into the Sahara, currently and formally colonised nations got together to plan

how to rise up. Military, political and economic cooperation, non-alignment with either side of

the Cold War. A coalition that recognised the obvious differences between its member states,

but that they had one thing in common, all under the boot of racial capitalism, all were part

of the Third World. Yet this banding spirit as it came to be known, a project of collective

national liberation enabled by networks of mutual support, was quickly and brutally extinguished.

In the years between 1961 and 1973, no fewer than six African independence leaders, including

Medi-Benbaka of Morocco, a Milka Cabral of Guinea-Besau and Cape Verde and Patrice Lemumber of Congo,

were assassinated by their former colonial rulers. All were socialists. All were replaced,

either through military coups or strong armed transitions, by leaders happy to make deals with the

devil. People like Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya used the language of African socialism to woo the

masses, all while aligning themselves with Western superpowers, in return for inward investment

and diplomatic power. Former colonies subjugated by law became neo-colonies bound by structural

adjustment programs. Half a century later, this mass betrayal of African people has been all but

forgotten. Kevin O'Coff wants to change that. O'Coff grew up in Germany in Kenya, so knows a

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