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White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

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Thank you to NetGalley, Perseus Books, and PublicAffairs for an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. Organiser with Dr Mandy Banton of a colloquium revisiting themes emerging from a conference held three years earlier on Dag Hammarskjold, the UN and the End of Empire. Speakers were John Y Jones (Voksenasen, Oslo), Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala), and Edward Mortimer (All Souls College, Oxford). Dr Williams has continued, since the publication of Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, to serve as a historical advisor on a variety of fronts relating to its themes. The book argues the case for a new inquiry into the plane crash that killed UN SG Dag Hammarskjold. It triggered led in 2012 to the independent Hammarskjöld Commission, chaired by Sir Steven Sedley, to which Dr Williams provided historical expertise. On the recommendation of the Commission’s report in 2013, in December 2014 a Resolution was adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly, authorising the Secretary General to appoint a UN Panel of Experts to examine the evidence; the Head of the Panel was Chande Othman, Chief Justice of Tanzania. In June 2015 Justice Othman submitted his report to UN SG Ban Ki Moon, who stated that ‘further inquiry or investigation would be necessary to finally establish the facts’. Following the adoption of a further Resolution by the UNGA in December 2016, Justice Othman was selected in 2017 by Secretary General António Guterres as Eminent Person with the mandate to review potential new information, assess its probative value, and determine the scope that any further investigation should take. The Judge has submitted threefurther reports to the SG; his report of 2022can be found here: http://www.hammarskjoldinquiry.info/pdf/ham_327_Eminent_Persons_report_250822.pdf. On 30 December 2022, Sweden -- together with 140 co-sponsor nations -- led the UN General Assembly to adopt without a vote a resolution that ensured the continuation of the inquiry under the leadership of JudgeOthman. Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb (UK); Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (USA) Her previous book (2016) was Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb (the sub-title in the USA is America’s Atomic Mission in World War II),which looks at espionage in the Belgian Congo during the Second World War, in the context of global power struggles, the European colonial presence in Africa, and the competition for strategic raw materials.

So to the free-thinkin’ Michael Malice, whites are treated easily in America and Jews are endlessly persecuted. As a post script I also think it is maybe a little odd to have a review of the book written by professor Nzongila-Ntalaja whose work and observations are most extensively quoted therein. Silencing and Lies: The death of Hammarskjöld, Congolese uranium, and the annexation of history', lecture given to the Dag Hammarskjöld Programme, Voksenaasen, Oslo, Norway Dag Hammarskjold and the Decolonisation of Africa. Ndola airport, Northern Rhodesia, 17-18 September 1961As contradictory as these efforts seem to have been, all of them, Williams writes, “contributed to the objective of keeping the whole of the Congo under America’s influence and guarding the Shinkolobwe mine against Soviet incursion.” Indeed, after reading this book, one could get the impression that every American or European living and working in Africa at this time was an intelligence operative with a shadowy agenda. As with Hammarskjöld’s death, there is no smoking gun – but the deftly sketched story gives us an unprecedented look into the murky underworld of Cold War geopolitics and the motivations of its major players. The White offender category would be lower if they did not label Hispanics as White, the "White on... CIA operations were not confined to plots ending in brute force. Some were cultural programmes, unbeknown to many artists and scholars who received CIA sponsorship.

This deeply symbolic novel is dedicated: “To all Kenyans struggling against the neocolonial stage of imperialism.” It was written on toilet paper in prison, when Ngũgĩ was detained without trial. Here, the devil represents the international financiers and bankers, in collaboration with Kenya’s elite. One of the devil’s disciples advocates extreme versions of privatisation, including the sale of bottled air. “We could even import some air from abroad, imported air, which we could then sell to the people at special prices!” The story ends with a thrilling act of resistance by its heroine, Jacinta Wariinga. The form of the novel is itself an act of resistance: it was originally written in Gikuyu, not English, to foster a national literature in one of the Kenyan languages. Skin Colour in Ancient Greece: The Insertion of a Non-Existent Colour Prejudice into Antiquity. - Maya Aziz

Hundreds of thousands take to the streets across Britain

Before long, Lumumba’s enemies closed in: on 5 September, Kasavubu illegally dismissed Lumumba as prime minister, citing his decision to involve the Soviets in Katanga. Gizenga, too, was dismissed. When Lumumba was later arrested, Andrew Djin, Nkrumah’s envoy to the DRC, intervened to secure his release but the damage was already done. On 14 September, Mobutu announced that the army had seized power and suspended civilian rule; Kasavubu hurriedly signed a decree to legalise Mobutu’s military dictatorship. The Soviet and Czech embassies were closed and their diplomats expelled. Williams shows that “assassination, overthrowing elected governments, sowing conflict between political groups and bribing politicians, trade unionists and national representatives at the UN” were just some of the strategies employed.

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