Word: exploitationism
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Zairean dissatisfaction with Mobutu has deep roots, going back to the early '60s, when Zaire--then the Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)--won independence from the Belgians under the leadership of Patrice Lumumba. The Belgian record in Africa was particularly cruel, with a long history of massacres and torture in...
The French and Belgians have shown their willingness to intervene in southern Africa to protect their interests--interests in Zaire's copper mines that are run by French and Belgians, interests in propping up the shaky regime of a "safe" pro-Western-exploitation dictator, Mobutu. The future looks grim for...
The Black Consciousness movement began in the late 1960s, based on the idea that South African blacks had to break out of the psychological chains created by a racist system before they could win the struggle for full liberation. Biko and other black students at the universities of South Africa...
For Afghanistan, where settling old political scores through the barrel of a gun is practically a tradition, the coup was relatively tidy. The rebels struck just after the Daoud regime had sealed the country's borders to tighten security before a meeting of foreign ministers of 25 non-aligned...
We should think of our allies, the guerrilas fighting in Zimbabwe, as they pit their courage against the over-whelming superior armed might of the illegal Ian Smith regime. And the people of now-independent Mozambique, amid their own struggle against poverty and exploitation, who closed their border to Rhodesian...