Uprisings in the Sahel: AFRICOM, Neo-Colonial Imperialism, and Pan-African Liberation

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss AFRICOM, or The United States Africa Command - responsible for U.S. military operations and imperialism on the continent. Together they discuss the ongoing conflict in Palestine, the connections between black liberation movements and palestinian liberation, BAP's Month of Action against AFRICOM, recent coups in West Africa, developments in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the recent history of Libya, the role of French neo-colonialism on the continent, the revolutionary contributions of Patrice Lumumba and Kwame Nkrumah, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.
0:08.6	On today's episode I have two members from the Black Alliance for Peace, Tunday and Nicholas
0:13.6	on to discuss the sort of coos, military coos and the revolutionary processes happening
0:20.2	in particular in the Sahel and Western Africa.
0:24.1	We talk about Niger, we talk about Mali, we talk about Burkina Faso, we talk about Africa,
0:29.1	we talk about French neocolonialism and together they really help make sense of current events
0:34.8	over the last year, they promote the Black Alliance for Peace's month of action against
0:39.5	Africa and much, much more.
0:42.0	These are two wonderful, deeply informed comrades who are really principled and they help us
0:49.1	understand these events as they unfold, which oftentimes gets blocked out by the other
0:54.0	things that are happening, the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia as well as now this
0:58.9	new war that Israel has declared on Palestine and so sometimes we don't hear about or don't
1:04.9	have good understanding about what's happening on the African continent and lots of things
1:10.4	are happening and so they're here today to help us understand that it's a really crucial,
1:15.2	really wonderful conversation hats off to them in Black Alliance for Peace for all the
1:18.6	amazing work that they do.
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