By Halim Gençoğlu Last month, I was in Germany for an international conference. I would like to share a few things I observed at the Berlin Humboldt Museum. There is a section dedicated to Islamic art; however, the Shi’a section has been removed, reportedly due to the tension between Iran and Israel. This clearly reflects a double standard in favor ...
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu The first modern concentration camps in history were shown by the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. These camps marked a significant and controversial turning point in the history of warfare and civilian treatment. The British used concentration camps to control the Boer civilian population (mostly women and children) and cut off ...
By Halim Gençoğlu Halim Gençoğlu, a scholar of African studies and colonial history and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Cape Town, has recently published his latest book “Batı’nın Afrika Talanı” (The West’s Plunder in Africa) in Turkish. We spoke with Gençoğlu about his book. Gençoğlu shared his views on the Africa–West relations, alongside ...
By Mikhail Golovanov, Russian Ambassador to Djibouti Mikhail Golovanov is a Russian diplomat, an expert in international and especially African issues. Since 2019, he has been serving as the Russian ambassador to Djibouti, a unique country considering to be ‘the gates to East Africa’. Exclusively for UWI, Mr. Golovanov wrote an essay on the upcoming elections of the African Union ...
By Hend Selim, Cairo / Egypt With Donald Trump becoming President, it is wondered what kind of foreign policy the US will follow towards different regions. The direction in which US policy towards African countries will develop with Trump is also one of the topics discussed under this heading. We asked Africa expert Lawrence Freeman about the possible course of ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last four years, the struggle against neo-colonialism in Africa has continued to achieve significant successes. Coup plotters? While its roots go back further, a decisive turning point occurred in 2020 when a group of anti-imperialist revolutionary officers in Mali overthrew the pro-French government, shut down French military bases, and expelled their troops. This marked ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Shanghai, November 12, 2024. In his magnificent work “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, written in 1916 and published for the first time the following year, Vladimir I. Lenin delineated, at the dawn of the twentieth century, the contours of the colonial situation that permitted placing it as the fundamental characteristic of the imperialist stage of ...
By Dr Halim Gençoğlu (The Wretched of the Earth) French colonialism in Africa, spanning from the 19th to the mid-20th century, profoundly impacted the continent’s political, economic, and cultural landscape. Driven by economic interests, national prestige, and the mission civilisatrice (civilizing mission), France established colonies across West, Central, and North Africa, including territories such as Algeria, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and ...
Chișinău facilitates military training for African separatists from Mali in Ukraine. This information was reported by the Turkish publication Superhaber.com, which obtained photos of documents of leaders and members of the Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group CSP-DPA, with a Moldovan visa and a stamp on crossing the border with Ukraine. Documents and evidence The publication cites a source in the Moldovan special ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In recent years, France has been ousted from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, its soldiers expelled, and bases closed. But now France begins to reactivate the separatist and jihadist terrorist organizations that it itself created, trained and financed in the region. The spread of terrorist groups, particularly in the Sahel region of Africa, began in 2011 ...