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The African Debt Trap: China’s Profitable Business of Enslaving Africa | 2021
The African Debt Trap: China’s Profitable Business of Enslaving Africa | 2021 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 34 Views • 5 years ago

The President of Sri Lanka started pushing to build a new port in a small town at the south end of Sri Lanka because ambitious projects like this make you look like a good, caring politician. The only problem was that everyone, including their own government studies estimated that the port wouldn’t be profitable. But then the President announced that the project had been greenlighted - with help from none other than China.

The port opened in 2012, and the forecasts were right - no one was interested in using this new port. And it’s finances were in the hole. So the President went back to China for another loan, this time for $757 million.So what did they do? They took out another loan from China, this time for $1 billion dollars, to help pay off that upcoming debt payment. It’s safe to say that Sri Lanka found itself at the mercy of the Chinese government. It was drowning in debt payments and was left with an expensive port no one wanted to use. And now, China owns 85% of that port and managed to squeeze 15,000 acres of land around that port as well.

Debt traps, debt diplomacy is nothing new. China is probably just taking a page out of the original master at this game: the US. Why did the US go through all this effort to indebt these Less-Developed Countries, or LDCs? Simple: when you’re a global superpower, you need a lot of resources to stay on top: oil, energy, raw materials, nations under your influence so you can call them up when you need something like votes at the UN, and so on.

Today, China is in a similar position - they’re desperate for energy, money, and resources to continue their astronomical growth to the top.Who knows in the long run what will happen with China's colonialism. China has the ability to be forceful when needed, especially in their sphere. History would say China will follow the old model, but things have radically changed before. China is making mistakes but continues to sell these projects.

A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase
A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 34 Views • 5 years ago

Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of forest gardening. Starting out with a flat field in 1994, his land has been transformed into a woodland and serves as an educational resource for others interested in forest gardening. This short film by Thomas Regnault focuses on Crawford's forest garden, which is abundant, diverse, edible, and might be one answer to the future of food systems.
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Bwa Kayiman 2020 Featuring Professor Bayyinah Bello & Prof.James Smalls
Bwa Kayiman 2020 Featuring Professor Bayyinah Bello & Prof.James Smalls Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 34 Views • 5 years ago

#FreeHaiti Webinar featuring Prof Bayyinah Bello and Prof James Smalls
229 Anniversary of the Hayti Revolution

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Bayyinah Bello Profile:
Bello is the mother of four, grandmother of 10 and great grandmother of 4. She first earned an Administrative degree at New York State University. Then went on to gain a B.S. in Education and an M.S. in Linguistics. Bello taught Arabic at Muhammad University of Islam. She discovered the joy of writing and published several language manuals and children storybooks.

Bello has lived in Liberia, Nigeria and Togo. She’s visited all the West African countries and several others on the continent. Back in the United States Bello worked as a publicist for the Museum of Natural History.

After gaining a Masters Degree in Primary Education and more teaching experience, Bello returned to Haiti. There, she taught the Hausa language and culture at the State University of Haiti. She also founded the ‘Citadelle International School,’ a bilingual school for Primary & Secondary aged children, aiming to aid young Haitians returning home to adapt.

Professor Bello teaches anthropology at the State University of Haiti. She is among the few professional educators to have dedicated her life’s work to the struggle for human rights and dignity for our peoples across the planet. A humanitarian and advocate, Professor Bello continues to contribute time and resources to assist in the development of programs based on a procedure she conceived. It states that the greatest knowledge is the knowledge of Self. Once one has developed the knowledge of Self one has no basis to envy another, to desire that which is not naturally yours, to promote or practice corruption; …one is empowered to generate reciprocity which is the foundation from which springs abundance and prosperity. Professor Bello is fluent in Haitian Kreyòl, French, English, Arabic and Hausa. She is currently working as Professor at the State University of Haiti.

Professor Bello was featured as a leading Haiti scholar and historian in the documentary 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti.

Publications: 1970, Beautiful Black Words for Beautiful Black Children, AMA Publishers; countless articles on History, Women, Vodoun, Education & Culture in magazines and journals in Afrika, the Caraibes & the United States; 1995, Almanak Ayisyen/Ayitian Calendar 1995; 1995 Héritage Maternel, poems on audio cassette; 2000, Mwen Rele Kanis Ogis, auto biography of a 123-year-old man; 2015, Bio of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Sheroes of the Haitian Revolution published by Thorobred Books.

Professor Bello is committed to achieving the primary goal of FONDASYON FELICITEE which she founded to develop a liberating educational system beneficial to all those affected by the Maafa.

Contact info: FONDASYON FELICITEE bayyinahbello@fondayonfelicitee.com; Tel. (509) 31418252 www.fondasyonfelicitee.com
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