The Berlin Conference of 1884 is the most famous of many agreements between European powers over which countries were allowed to colonize which parts of Africa. The conference contributed to ushering in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers, which eliminated or overrode most existing forms of African autonomy and self-governance.
As Europe colonized Africa and intensified extraction, it allowed the European countries to unify in the face of colonial competition from Japan, Russia and the United States. The European powers soon over-ran the continent, establishing colonies everywhere except Ethiopia, Morocco, and two kingdoms in what became Somalia: the Majeerteen Sultanate and the Sultanate of Hobyo. The other exception was Liberia, which was an American, not European colony.
The colonial partitioning of Africa has had a profound and lasting impact on Africa, including in its current political formations. Compare the borders of Colonial Africa in 1913 to a map of Africa in the 1970s, just after colonization. These borders, inherited to today, cut through ethnic groups and former political formations, drawn with regard to natural resources rather than the needs of Africans.
Walter Rodney said that Imperialism in Africa is “The exploitation of Nation by Nation,” but in order to exploit a nation, you have to create one in the first place.
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Question for the day here.
What's green, hangs on a wall, and whistles?
dm @Wmill the answer.
to bring up reddit drama on hexbear dot net, a website whose entire purpose is to not be reddit. this is a twelfth type of liberalism
The only person who is qualified to accept interviews on behalf of this community is blackmoldfutures
If there's a femme Bond, she should get to peg a guy called Bussy Galore.
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I dont think antiwork is comming back at least for today, currently the socdem spliter r/workreform has 193k subs i think they are going to have 4 times the subs of r/workersstrikeback (the non-sectarian version of antiwork) by the end of the day
i think its going to become the main subreddit for the US labor movement, which suck because its a reformist, the mods are canadian who work in the banking industry and they are liberal in spirit so you know they are gonna capitulate to capital for some small concessions.
None of them can be something you did for work or school
You don't have to tell people you did them for work or school :wink:
When I was in theater I put on my audition resume parts I played in school. "You've done Shakespeare?" "Yes I was in Twelfth Night."
When it comes to resumes if you're not lying you're not trying.
With systems so broken and predatory the only rational response is to shove them as full of solvent and rot as possible and hope they disintegrate entirely and create space for something better to grow.
I named the director and gave their number, so if they really looked into it they would have called her and found out she was a teacher - but in practice noone does that.
If you can’t show me evidence you write code when you’re not being forced to, you don’t have a chance.
He doesn't just want you to be a wage slave, he wants you to be a wage slave who dreams of being an actual chattel slave.
i think its going to become the main subreddit for the US labor movement
I think this should be reversed!
r/workreform will (at least temporarily) become the most popular labor movement subreddit.
r/workersstrikeback will be the main subreddit of the US labor movement because people there will actually form unions and stand in solidarity irl
Everyone should sing more.
I’m probably just saying that because I did that yesterday
I am sick of hearing about what's going on on :reddit-logo:
lots of “progressives” sure are excited to have an excuse to be transphobic and ableist rn
shoutout to jon arbuckle, the only man to drink more dog cum than steven crowder
Okay, cool, uh, great to hear my brother veer extremely uncomfortably close to defending war criminals