Imagine you’re building a new nation: your people have just thrown off colonial chains. But behind the scenes, a foreign agency is picking your leaders, funding rival factions, flooding your society with misinformation, investing in businessmen who owe their loyalty to another capital half a globe away. This is not fiction. This is White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams.When we talk about Africa’s decolonization, we usually imagine flags being raised, anthems echoing across the sky, and leaders proclaiming independence. But behind these images of triumph, another story was unfolding — silent, methodical, and invisible. A story of spies and sabotage.Of manipulation and betrayal. A story where the dream of freedom was quietly undermined by a foreign power: the United States of America.In her groundbreaking book White Malice, British historian Susan Williams exposes the secret operations of the CIA in Africa — operations that aimed not just to influence, but to control the newly independent nations of the continent.

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OLATUNJI - "SHE TEMPO" (Official Visualizer)

Produced by Shot Master J

Following the heartfelt patriotism of his first release for the season, "TLY (Trinidad Loves You)", Olatunji Yearwood returns with his second offering "She Tempo", a vibrant, soulful ode to the heartbeat of his career: soca music.
Inspired by the smooth charm of the late Baron, "She Tempo" fuses vintage calypso sweetness with modern Carnival power.
Olatunji personifies soca as a woman, seductive, playful, and powerful taking listeners on a rhythmic love affair full of passion and truth.
With lines like "She hit me front, I hit she back and we whining low", Olatunji captures the essence of the dance floor and the deeper
connection between an artist and his art form.
The song reflects the highs and lows of his journey in the soca industry, celebrating resilience, creativity, and devotion to the culture that raised him.

Hon. Sidia Sana Jatta is a trained Africanist linguist who contributed to early research into West African languages while he was a research fellow at the International African Institute in London (SOAS) between 1980 and 1982. He is the founder of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism in The Gambia. He has been a vocal proponent of Gambian language use (instead of English) to facilitate communication, information exchange and learning. His knowledge and first-hand experience of Gambian education is vast. He has notably worked as a teacher and as a senior curriculum development officer for the Curriculum Development Centre from (70s-80s). He was also a member of the Gambian National Assembly’s Education Committee for over 10 years.