Drew Povey
The World Bank accepts that social support is needed, at least for the very poor, with the introduction its free market neoliberal reforms. The World Bank has congratulated the Tinubu administration for ending fuel subsidy and allowing the exchange rate for the naira...
Izielen Agbon
February 28, 2026
The Iva Valley massacre of November 1949 arose from a rising wave of class struggles from the end of the World War in 1945. These were not restricted to the mines and included the 1945General Strike (lasting 45 days from June 22...
Paul Biya has now been in power in Cameroon for over four decades. A record of longevity leaving the populations drained in a corrupt country in the grip of a dirty war in its English-speaking region.
The destabilization of the Sahel is part of the crisis of the postcolonial states of the three countries Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger (but also northern Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin etc).
A popular coup d’état led by Captain Thomas Sankara made him President of, what was then called Upper Volta on August 4, 1983. He was only 33 years old. Four years later he was assassinated.