Neocolonialism Is The Reason For Africa’s Poverty and Under-Development| We Debate (Video Edu) and Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of ‘Development’ in Africa by Mark Langan (eBook)

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Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of ‘Development’ in Africa by Mark Langan

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Amazon Books Description: Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of ‘development’ strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalization. Eschewing polemics and critically engaging the work of Ghana’s first President – Kwame Nkrumah – the book offers a rigorous assessment of the concept of neo-colonialism. It then demonstrates how neo-colonialism remains an impediment to genuine empirical sovereignty and poverty reduction in Africa today. It does this through examination of corporate interventions; Western aid-giving; the emergence of ‘new’ donors such as China; EU-Africa trade regimes; the securitisation of development; and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the chapters, it becomes clear that the current challenges of African development cannot be solely pinned on so-called neo-patrimonial elites. Instead it becomes imperative to fully acknowledge, and interrogate, corporate and donor interventions which lock many poorer countries into neo-colonial patterns of trade and production. The book provides an original contribution to studies of African political economy, demonstrating the on-going relevance of the concept of neo-colonialism, and reclaiming it for scholarly analysis in a global era. (Source:

Supplemental: Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah

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Conviction: Free after 25 years of unjust imprisonment | Fault Lines Documentary and Angola Penitentiary_The Once and Future Slave Plantation (Book Chapter)

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Brandon Jackson

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  • After a quarter-century behind bars, Brandon Jackson is fighting back against Louisiana’s last Jim Crow law.
  • In 1997, Brandon Jackson was convicted for a crime he said he did not commit. An Applebee’s restaurant outside of Shreveport, Louisiana was robbed for $6,500. Nobody was injured. There was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime.
  • At trial, two jurors voted to acquit him. In 48 states, it would have been a mistrial, and he may have walked free, but Louisiana’s Jim Crow-era laws, designed to lock up Black defendants, allowed for nonunanimous jury convictions. Jackson was sentenced to life.
  • Conviction opens in the days after Brandon Jackson has been released on parole after 25 years in jail. The film follows Jackson as he grapples with the agoraphobia, paranoia and alienation borne of a quarter-century of unjust imprisonment.
  • The menial work available to him triggers memories of the slavery-like conditions at Louisiana’s notorious plantation prisons. He struggles against a parole system that demands more than $11,000 in fees and sends officers to his home before dawn. He concludes he is “free but not free”.
  • Over time, he finds community in a support group for formerly imprisoned people, and a sense of purpose advocating to reverse Louisiana’s last Jim Crow law.
  • Conviction is a portrait of one man’s quest to adjust to life on the outside and help the more than 1,500 people he left behind in prison with nonunanimous, Jim Crow convictions. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/6/26/conviction-free-after-25-years-of-unjust-imprisonment

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Imprisoned Intellectuals-America’s Political Prisoners Write On Life, Liberation, Rebellion, Edited by Joy James (2003),Icebraker_ The Case of the Soledad Brothers_From Shackles to Handcuffs

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(L-R): Fleeta Drumgo, 26; John W. Cluchette, 28; and Jackson, 29.

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Stop The Violence Movement – “Self Destruction” Project_Video and eBook (1989) and Supplemental_The Making of The Self Destruction Video

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This Post/Lesson is a RBG Tribute to DJ Scott La Rock

In 1988, during a concert by Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy, a young fan was killed in a fight. The killing occurred shortly after Scott La Rock, a founding member of Boogie Down Productions, was killed in a shooting. KRS-One responded to these deaths by forming the Stop the Violence Movement to advance a vision of Hip Hop that would restore what he called Hip Hop’s original principles to the music industry. Composed of some of the biggest stars in contemporary East Coast Hip Hop, the movement released a single, “Self Destruction”, in 1989, with all proceeds going to the National Urban League. A music video was created, and a VHS cassette entitled Overcoming Self-Destruction—the Making of the Self-Destruction Video was also released.

Stop the Violence: Overcoming Self-Destruction. George, Nelson, Ed. The story of the Stop the Violence movement among rap music artists and music industry colleagues is told, along with the story of a video that was produced as part of this initiative. The Stop the Violence project grew out of the reaction to violence among concert goers at a 1987 rap concert on Long Island (New York). Rap musicians have joined projects that are centered around the “Self-Destruction” video, which is a rap performance calling for an end to violence and promoting positive action by young people to combat crime. The book contains lyrics, statements by the rappers, statistics about urban violence, letters from young people about their experiences of black-on-black crime, and the story of the Stop the Violence movement. Comments by the artists complement the project. Contains a 32-item reading list prepared by some contributors. (Source: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED377284)

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The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument by KRS-One (eBook 2009) and KRS-One Video Players

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