The World Bank and Underdevelopment in Africa and Asia: Honoring the Work of John Pilger
This episode examines how World Bank's debts, and high interest rates, cripple African and Asian economies, deepening poverty and underdevelopment in the world's most impoverish countries. This episod...
11 Sep 202451min
The IMF and Jamaica's Development Crisis
This episode examines how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank's structural adjustment policies affected Jamaica’s economic and political development from the early 1970s to the presen...
25 Aug 20241h 25min
Sierra Leone's Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah Speaks On West Africa's Illicit Economic Flows
In this exclusive interview with KPFA, Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah, editor of the Africanist Press, talks about the deteriorating democratic situation in Sierra Leone and West Africa, illicit economic flows...
6 Aug 202428min
African History Series: Corruption, Underdevelopment and the Debt Crisis in Jamaica
This episode examines three key events to illustrate how political corruption undermined Jamaica's development and fueled the country's debt crisis. First, we look at how a US$9.5 million World Bank ...
29 Jul 202459min
African History Series: Samora Machel and the Struggle for Mozambique
Samora Machel was the first President of Mozambique, serving from the country's independence in 1975 until his untimely death in 1986. A leading figure in the struggle for Mozambique’s independence f...
21 Jul 202424min
Milele Energy, the DFC, and US Embassy in Sierra Leone's Corrupt Energy Sector
About a month ago, the United States International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Nisha Biswal, attended a ceremony in Freetown to launch the “construction of ...
8 Jul 202442min
African History Series: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and African Liberation in South Africa
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, described as the forgotten leader of the South African independence struggle, was an anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) ...
29 Jun 202428min
Corporate Gangsters, Rogue Elites, and Colonial Diplomats in Sierra Leone
In this episode, we discuss the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)'s acquisition of the Western Area Power Generation Project and the role of the US-financed company, Mi...
24 Jun 202448min
