Zanzibar -- The Dark Side of Paradise is a twenty minute news documentary which looks at the causes and consequences of the longest blackout in history. The film assesses how unremitting power problems in the Spice Islands are putting their fragile economy at great risk, whilst also denying their impoverished population a safe water supply. It also provides a background of Zanzibar's current political situation and their dependence on tourism in order to illustrate why the power cuts are only serving to aggravate an already dire situation.

Vectors of Compromise: Foreign-Controlled Extraction, Academic and Policy Dependency, and the Limits of Stop Galamsey as a Black Liberation Framework


Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon discusses foreign-controlled extraction, multinational mining interests, academic and policy dependency, environmental harm, and the limits of Stop Galamsey as a Black liberation framework.⁣

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Wongel Zelalem reports on Burkina Faso aiming to increase gold autonomy by replacing foreign miners with local ones, Burkina Faso intends to revoke mining permits of several foreign miners.

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⁣Uganda president, Yoweri Museveni says Africa needs to start making the best use of her natural resources by processing them in Africa instead of exporting her raw materials and creating money and jobs for western nations. President Yoweri Museveni was speaking at IDA21 Africa Heads of State Summit, KICC, Nairobi, Kenya

In this video Dr. Stewart Tyson Smith reveals the deep Afrikan ancestral roots of Ancient Kemet and its extensive trade with neighboring Afrikan civilizations.

The webinar will discuss the opportunities, constraints, prospects and limitations of agroecology in Africa. It will explore exactly what agroecology is, the ongoing efforts to popularize it in Africa, the likely positive and negative impacts of its widespread adoption, and its intersection with modern agricultural methods, among other topics.

Panelists include: Irene Egyir, an associate professor in the University of Ghana’s Agricultural Economics Department; Nassib Mugwanya, a Ugandan agricultural communications specialist and PhD candidate at North Carolina State University; Bernard Guri, executive director of the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development, in Ghana; Pacifique Nshimiyimana, an agribusiness entrepreneur in Rwanda, and Charles Nyaaba, head of programs and advocacy for the Peasant Farmers Association. Moderator: Joseph Opoku Gakpo, a journalist from Ghana currently enrolled in a master’s program at North Carolina State University.