The history of Africa's external political relations

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A new impetus for African development
By Margaret A. Novicki, Africa Recovery, May 1996 Special Issue. The U.N. initiative to implement strategies for African development.
United Nations Special Initiative
From Africa Policy Information Center (APIC), Washington Office on Africa, 11 July 1996. The U.N. system wide initiative on Africa would link Bretton Woods to Africa. Demonstrates U.S. neocolonial ambitions in Africa.
Into Africa
The Nation, 20 April 1998. Bill Clinton's imperial safari through Africa is part of a ‘scramble for African’ huge undeveloped markets and vast energy reserves.
Who's To Blame For Negative Impacts Of Globalisation?
By Judith Achieng’, 7 September 1998. Negative effects of globalization in Africa due primarily to the unreponsiveness of African governments to labor.
Rice caught in Iran-Contra-style capers in Africa
Executive Intelligence Review, 20 November 1998. EIR team probes the causes of the genocidal wars in East and Central Africa over the last four years and uncoveres a covert arms and logistical supply network run out of the U.S. State Department (47 Kb).
Mercenary Market Flourishing
By Thomas Hirenée Atenga, IPS, 16 December 1998. African development held back by political insecurity, due in part to capitalist greed and expansion.
From Slave Ship to Space Ship: Africa between Marginalization and Globalization
By Ali Mazrui, African Studies Quarterly, 22 April 1999. Walter Rodney was concerned about how Europe retarded Africa's development, but here looks at Chapters III and V of his book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, for how Africa accelerated Europe's development (23 Kb).
Africa ‘Recolonization’ Act
From BRC-News, 9 June 1999. Concerning the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which would open Africa to the dominance of US capital.
Cash Strapped African Leaders Beg To Be Re-Colonized
By Ron Daniels, The Black World Today, 1 August 1999. The continent whose historical underdevelopment under slavery and colonialism must now turn to the former slaver-masters and colonizers for a ‘bail-out’ which will strengthen the stranglehold of Europe and America over the human and material resources of Africa well into the 21st century.