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 media organization to d...
4 Marras 202424min
The World Bank and Underdevelopment in Africa and Asia: Honoring the Work of John Pilger
This 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 countries. This episod...
11 Syys 202451min
The IMF and Jamaica's Development Crisis
This 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 1970s to the presen...
25 Elo 20241h 25min
Sierra Leone's Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah Speaks On West Africa's Illicit Economic Flows
In 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, illicit economic flows...
6 Elo 202428min
African History Series: Corruption, Underdevelopment and the Debt Crisis in Jamaica
This 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$9.5 million World Bank ...
29 Heinä 202459min
African History Series: Samora Machel and the Struggle for Mozambique
Samora 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 Mozambique’s independence f...
21 Heinä 202424min
Milele Energy, the DFC, and US Embassy in Sierra Leone's Corrupt Energy Sector
About 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 the “construction of ...
8 Heinä 202442min
African History Series: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and African Liberation in South Africa
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, described as the forgotten leader of the South African independence struggle, was an anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) ...
29 Kesä 202428min
