Afropessimism
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Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and Afropolitanism
AFRICA: For capitalists, disruption opens the door to new power and new revenues: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. Author Achille Mbembe's horizon is always the broadest possible - the cosmic, earth-historical, and planetary. Despite all the harrowing problems, Africa is conjured up as a vibrant world centre that still has power…
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Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa
CORRUPTION: We haven't heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent research centre owned by Angola's state oil company Sonangol, where Isabel dos Santos was the director until she was fired in November 2017?