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The junta belt: What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?

Note from LeftEast editors: We reprint Tamás Gerőcs’s article on the political economy of the recent wave of coup d’etat in West and Central Africa. The article was originally published at Africa Is a Country: a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left. The militaries in six West African countries—Mali, […]

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The war in Ukraine may seem far from Africa, but it is not

To compensate for its possible isolation by the West, Russia could turn its attention to Africa.

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Decolonization and Semiperipheral Postcoloniality: Hungarian Experts in Nkrumah’s Ghana

Notes from the LeftEast editors: this piece was first published in the Hungarian journal Mezosfera, and was reprinted with kind permission of the author and the journal. It should be cited as: Zoltán Ginelli, “Hungarian Experts in Nkrumah’s Ghana. Decolonization and Semiperipheral Postcoloniality in Socialist Hungary,” Mezosfera Issue No 5, Refractions of Socialist Solidarity, ed. Eszter Szakács (Budapest: tranzit. […]

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The escalation of the refugee crisis and European imperialism. An interview with Vijay Prashad.

Note from the LeftEast editors: This is a publication of two related materials. Below we repost the transcript of an interview of Vijay Prashad with Sharmini Peries from The Real News Network on the current escalation of the migrant crisis. As some of the ideas have been developed in Vijay’s recent work, among which this […]