The Historyscoper's Africa Watch Blog

Grift Shift: African leaders no longer want climate "aid." Instead, they want climate "investment."

2025-09-09T07:03:00.000-07:00

https://x.com/JunkScience/status/1965397205797253213

NEW: The African Union has now joined the Caribbean push demanding Britain pays “reparations” for empire and slavery. Let’s be clear: African kingdoms were knee-deep in the slave trade, selling their own people for profit. King Ghezo of Dahomey even begged Britain not to abolish it. Yet now, we’re told modern Britons, who abolished slavery, who fought and died to end it worldwide must foot the bill? Reparations are a shakedown, not justice. Britain owes nothing.

2025-09-09T05:48:00.000-07:00

https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1965082438289244657

Togo’s Young Generation Challenges Six Decades of Dynastic Rule

2025-09-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/togos-young-generation-challenges-six-decades-of-dynastic-rule/

Trump Can End Obama’s Christian Genocide in Africa

2025-08-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/08/trump-can-end-obamas-christian-genocide.html

FYI - More detail on what is happening in the Congo - a bloody civil war with the prize of cobalt sales to the EU and elsewhere

2025-02-21T18:22:00.000-08:00

https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/fyi-more-detail-on-what-is-happening

South Africa Takes on Trump. Top government officials threaten to withhold minerals in response to U.S. aid cutoff announcement.

2025-02-13T08:07:00.000-08:00

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/05/south-africa-trump-ramaphosa-usaid-minerals/

Violent Attack on Nigerian Union Leaders in Abuja Trial Unfolds

2024-10-26T07:35:00.004-07:00

https://republicangazette.com/violent-attack-on-nigerian-union-leaders-in-abuja-trial-unfolds/

Localization in Zimbabwe: A Critical Look at the Grand Bargain and Charter for Change

2024-10-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/10/localization-zimbabwe-critical-look-grand-bargain-charter-change/

A Glimpse into Tanzania’s Political Turmoil Ahead of 2025 Election

2024-10-21T18:22:00.000-07:00

https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/10/a-glimpse-into-tanzanias-political-turmoil/

The Biggest Migration Since the Barbarian Invasions of Rome by Doug Casey

2024-09-11T19:16:00.000-07:00

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-biggest-migration-since-the-barbarian-invasions-of-rome/

Meet the World’s Largest Free Trade Area. When it comes into effect, the African Continental Free Trade Area will remake African economies—and the world’s.

2020-11-13T18:22:00.003-08:00

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/13/afcfta-free-trade-africa-economics/

The Modern Day Ethiopian Exodus to Israel

2015-04-09T12:15:00.001-07:00

http://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-questioning-obamas-faith-in-iran/

Nigerians Want ‘Magic’ from President-Elect

2015-04-06T06:42:00.000-07:00

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/04/05/nigerians-want-magic-from-president-elect/

Empire and Colonialism: Rich Men in London Still Deciding Africa`s Future

2015-04-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=634202

Jonah Blank from the RAND institute on the Nigerian elections (video)

2015-03-31T21:01:00.002-07:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=86&v=dAYLT6GKfsE

NIGERIA: BUHARI LEADING BY 2 MILLION VOTES

2015-03-31T11:43:00.002-07:00

Jewish teens attacked on their way home from New York synagogue - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/jewish-teens-attacked-on-their-way-home-from-new-york-synagogue.html/

IVORY COAST

2015-03-27T11:44:00.001-07:00

http://sheikyermami.com/2015/03/ivory-coast/

THINK AGAIN: Democracy reigns in Lesotho - but which democracy, exactly?

2015-03-23T15:53:00.002-07:00

http://www.issafrica.org/iss-today/think-again-democracy-reigns-in-lesotho-but-which-democracy-exactly

European Council Conclusions On The Gulf Of Guinea Action Plan 2015-2020

2015-03-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/european-council-conclusions-on-the-gulf-of-guinea-action-plan-2015-2020/

Christians Destroy Almost All Of The Mosques In Central Africa

2015-03-18T13:06:00.001-07:00

http://shoebat.com/2015/03/18/christians-destroy-almost-all-of-the-mosques-in-central-africa/

Nigeria’s Election: The First to Peace and Stability Wins

2015-03-17T09:20:00.002-07:00

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/03/17/nigerias-election-the-first-to-peace-and-stability-wins/

5 Surprising Facts About Nigeria's Economy

2015-03-16T20:09:00.001-07:00

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-surprising-facts-nigerias-economy-pj-wilcox-author

Safeguarding Africa’s Wetlands a Daunting Task

2015-03-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/03/safeguarding-africas-wetlands-a-daunting-task/

ICC combines trials of Ivory Coast ex-president and ally

2015-03-13T15:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.france24.com/en/20150311-ivory-coast-icc-gbagbo-ble-goude-international-criminal-court-election-violence/

Plan to export medics ‘threatens Uganda’s epidemic response’

2015-03-11T19:04:00.002-07:00

http://www.irinnews.org/report/101219/plan-to-export-medics-threatens-uganda-s-epidemic-response