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That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every coup in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country.

Critical Readings:

  • Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.
  • Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa by T.D. Harper-Shipman.

Recommended readings:

  • Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawaii Statehood by Dean Itsugi Saranillio.
  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl.
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[–] Hegar@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your comment about Chinese debt is uninformed - China holds a small percentage of total African debt and there's only 1 country (Zambia, iirc) where Chinese debt is even close to half of the debt.

Eurobond debt is far greater in almost every debt distressed African nation and is the debt that African leaders and bankers commonly cite as the problem.

The Chinese debt-trap story keeps being repeated by the US state department, but it does not reflect in any way the reality of African debt.

https://chinaglobalsouth.com/2023/07/13/graph-of-the-day-chinas-real-share-of-african-debt/

[–] match@pawb.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This article from the same source suggests China is at 54% of Zambia's debt, which is massive for a single country based off the other graphs: https://chinaglobalsouth.com/2023/05/31/how-zambias-debt-mix-is-forecast-to-evolve/

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep! Zambia is the only country where the numbers don't immediately disprove the debt trap narrative.

Contrasting Zambia's numbers with the percentage of China's total African debt percentage only highlights how low it is in other African countries.