Since colonization, Africa has provided its best raw materials for the global North. Can countries finally break this pattern?
Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.
Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.
The task is to recapture progressive thought and policies from post-independence Africa for our times.
Tackling questions like financing development, meeting the needs of the working class, and transform the structure of African economies, Post-Colonialisms Today researcher Akua Britwum provides examples of policy tools used in post-independence Ghana and Tanzania. Produced and edited by Regions Refocus (Cinthia Chen, Editor). Filmed at the Post-Colonialisms Today Intergenerational Dialogue in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2019), by Kijiweni Productions (Amil Shivji, Producer; Wilson Rumisha, Production Manager). Learn more about the project at bit.ly/WhatIsPCT
Highlighting the importance of development planning and the central role of the state in facilitating it, Post-Colonialisms Today researcher Akua Britwum offers lessons from her research on planning in Ghana and Tanzania. Produced and edited by Regions Refocus (Cinthia Chen, Editor). Filmed at the Post-Colonialisms Today Intergenerational Dialogue in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2019), by Kijiweni Productions (Amil Shivji, Producer; Wilson Rumisha, Production Manager). Learn more about the project at bit.ly/WhatIsPCT
The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed fault lines of xenophobia, attempting to exclude and blame certain groups despite this undermining pandemic response for nations as a whole. Faisal Garba combats this with examples from the unity built by anti-colonial struggles in Ghana and Tanzania, and the these alternative notions of belonging they affirmed.
Chafik Ben Rouine (Researcher, Post-Colonialisms Today) offers several key lessons on what a progressive monetary policy looks like today, pulling from his research on central banking in post-independence Tunisia.
Nasser’s post-independence industrialization project transformed much of Egyptian economy and society. Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam (Researchers, Post-Colonialisms Today) critically recover lessons from this project for today’s neoliberal context of globalized supply chains.
Food supply chains have become a central concern of the many crises during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jihen Chandoul (Working Group, Post-Colonialisms Today) reminds us that we can learn from the post-independence projects for food self-sufficiency in Africa, which were later undermined by neoliberal concepts of “food security.”
The COVID-19 crisis has demanded an increased role for the state across the African continent, despite years of neoliberalism attempting to dismantle the state. Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei (Working Group, Post-Colonialisms Today) walks through the roots of this dilemma, and what can be learned from the many positive examples of the post-independence era.
Despite massive gains, there were critical limits on Nasser's industrialization project in the post-independence era. Discussing issues such as weak protections during land redistribution, Post-Colonialisms Today researchers Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam offer critiques that must be remembered for today. Produced and edited by Regions Refocus (Cinthia Chen, Editor). Filmed at the Post-Colonialisms Today Intergenerational Dialogue in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2019), by Kijiweni Productions (Amil Shivji, Producer; Wilson Rumisha, Production Manager). Learn more about the project at bit.ly/WhatIsPCT