If he wants to save his legacy on Africa, Barack Obama will have to be more than a shill for U.S. security firms and corporations.
Obama’s Last Chance in Africa
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AFRICOM
Putting Boko Haram in Context
There’s no purely military solution to the insurgency raging across northeastern Nigeria.
Militarizing the Ebola Crisis
Few would oppose a robust U.S. response to Ebola, but the Obama administration’s deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader U.S.-led militarization in West Africa.
AFRICOM-Lite: The Obama Administration’s Security Governance Initiative for Africa
SGI can be viewed as a counter-insurgency program whose goal is to strengthen economic development by strengthening security.
Obama: Into Africa
President Obama is definitely “into” Africa. Unfortunately that has translated into holding the door open for U.S. multinationals to do what outsiders have done for centuries: extract the continent’s wealth.
Militarized Humanitarianism in Africa
Africa is the U.S. military’s next frontier, and it’s using humanitarian missions to get there.
AFRICOM Goes to War on the Sly
An AFRICOM official says the U.S. has been “at war” in Africa for over two years.
South Sudan: Colonialism’s Dead Hand
A studied refusal to pay attention to South Sudan’s colonial history helped ignite the current crisis.
The Pentagon’s Italian Job
The Pentagon has spent the last two decades plowing hundreds of millions of tax dollars into military bases in Italy, turning the country into an increasingly important center for U.S. military power. Especially since the start of the Global War on Terror in 2001, the...
The U.S. and Africa: The Next Four Years
Just two countries — South Africa and Nigeria — currently account for over 33 percent of the continent’s economic output.