A new scramble for African cities is happening. Driven by foreign salaries, strong currencies, and short-term rentals, desirable neighborhoods across the continent are pricing out the locals who live and work there.

Drawing parallels between historical colonial spatial segregation and present-day economic dynamics, we examine how parallel expat economies operate and highlight the need for housing policies that protect local communities.

⁣At five in the morning on 9 February 1955, thousands of police officers moved into Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg.

Some were armed with rifles.
They had come to remove the people who lived there.
The government had decided that Sophiatown, home to tens of thousands of black South Africans, had to go.

Families were forced from their homes and moved to areas designated for black people.
Then the demolitions began.

Over the next few years, much of Sophiatown was destroyed.
Eventually, a new white suburb was built in its place.

The government called it Triomf, Afrikaans for “triumph.”
What happened in Sophiatown wasn't random.

By the 1950s, South Africa had built an entire system around race.
It controlled every facet of daily existence: housing, employment, schooling, and marriage. …

This is the story of how apartheid was systematically constructed.
What it cost ordinary South Africans.

And how a decades-long struggle ultimately broke the machinery of state control.

⁣In June 1998, General Sani Abacha had ruled Nigeria for almost five years.

He controlled the military, ruled largely by decree and had jailed some of HIS most prominent political opponents.

Then, without warning, Abacha was dead.

The government announced that the 54-year-old Abacha had suffered a sudden heart attack at the presidential villa in Abuja. ..

Almost immediately, rumours began circulating about what had happened during his final hours.

But after his death, another story began to emerge.

Investigators started tracing money linked to Abacha and his associates through bank accounts around the world.

At first, the figures ran into hundreds of millions of dollars.
Then billions.

The money had passed through associates, companies and foreign financial institutions before ending up in accounts outside Nigeria.

And the method used to take some of that money was surprisingly simple.

He was the Head of State.

This is the story of Sani Abacha.

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Sources:

State of Africa After Independence: Martin Meredith

Africa, A Modern History: Guy Arnold

University of Pretoria etd - Hoogenraad-Vermaak, S
136, CHAPTER 5: THE ABACHA REGIME: 17 NOVEMBER 1993 UNTIL JUNE 1998

The KKK, Democratic and Republican Party operate in the same vien. To serve the interest of White people.

Any serious Pan Blackism person must understand history, correctly and not the lies and frameworks of the West, that wil led you into slavery and being a vassal of the West.

Analysis by a Eurasian of the current and historical pattern in the western global capitalistic control

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