January 2023 – The Muslim Independent

French Colonialism Lives Strong in West Africa: A Look at the CFA

By Alex Gladstein In the fall of 1993, Fodé Diop’s family was saving up for his future. A brilliant 18-year-old living in Senegal, Fodé had a bright path in front of him as a basketball player and an engineer. His father, a school teacher, had helped him find inspiration in computers and in connecting withContinue reading “French Colonialism Lives Strong in West Africa: A Look at the CFA”

IMF Structural Adjustment, Case Study: Bangladesh & the Shrimp Fields

This is an excerpt from an essay by Alex Gladstein titled, “Structural Adjustment: How The IMF And World Bank Repress Poor Countries And Funnel Their Resources To Rich Ones” “Everything is gone.”–Kolyani Mondal Fifty-two years ago, Cyclone Bhola killed an estimated 1 million people in coastal Bangladesh. It is, to this day, the deadliest tropicalContinue reading “IMF Structural Adjustment, Case Study: Bangladesh & the Shrimp Fields”