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We shall win!
Inspired by the gallant women that contributed to the independence struggle in Kenya against British imperialism and dedicated to all women who continue to resist against the oppressive neo-colonial regimes.
Ken Saro Wiwa Did Not Die for This: The Legacies of Imperialism and Colonialism in the Niger Delta
The Niger Delta in Nigeria is a potent symbol of the broader legacy of imperialism across Africa. For over 67 years, multinational corporations – particularly the Royal Dutch Shell Company – in partnership with successive Nigerian regimes, have waged economic and ecological warfare against the people of the Niger Delta. This exploitation of the Delta is a reflection of Africa’s broader experience with imperialism which stretches back at least 500 years into history. Over this period, foreign powers have, in their pursuit of wealth, inflicted untold harm on our land and her people, leaving behind a devastating trail of socio-economic and environmental ruin. Nigeria produced almost all of her food at independence in 1960, with agricultural exports providing 97% of the nation’s income. Neoliberal political theorists optimistically predicted that Nigeria, under the direction of capable and imaginative leadership, would see rapid economic growth.
The Real Dragon: George Jackson and the Black August Tradition
The dragon never physically flew out, but his thoughts, writings, and practice encircled the black globe in the fire-spitting style of a true and living dragon — the metaphor gains sharpness the deeper we delve in the many variants of the lives and afterlives of the man. George Jackson was the compañero who wasn’t afraid; a righteous brother who frightened and shook the empire while locked up in its deadly dungeons for all his adult life. What conditions create a man so beautiful, cold, calculated, and brilliant as George? Why was the system so afraid of a young black brother in this way? Why did he stand out and continue to do so after all this time?
Projects & Activities
The Inaugural Mwamko Fellowship Kicks-Off
Mwamko is glad and honoured to announce the start of the inaugural Mwamko fellowship, which kicked-off on 12th September, 2024, under the theme Can You Imagine the Size of Freedom?
What we Stand For
Intellectual restoration
African people, like all other peoples, are bearers of civilizational seeds that have blossomed throughout history. Finding its first known fruition in ancient Egypt, there existed a consistent building and renewing of civilizations until the advent of the colonial state.
Economic self-determination
Our people live in saddening conditions marked by gut-wrenching poverty, are deprived of basic needs, their rights to self-determination, barred from their lands, and are everyday humiliated and subjugated in a world completely laid to waste by capitalism.
Ecological sovereignty
Today, large multinational corporations are waging war on the sovereignty of land, seed and food systems on the African continent and beyond. As the African savannah disappears to be replaced by an ever encroaching desert and concrete, our seeds are concurrently being patented and small farm holdings criminalized.
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Join Mwamko as we take the course together for the transformation of Africa.
