AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa
By Itai Muchena, Reading Politics, Ohio State University, US AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa The Legacy of the Berlin Conference of 1884 by Itai Muchena The hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that today divide Africa into 50 plus irregular nations under Eurocentric subjugation all started in Berlin, Germany on November 15, 1884. The infamous Berlin Conference still remains Africa’s greatest undoing in more ways than one, where colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent and tore apart the social, political and economic fabric that held the continent together. By the time independence returned to Africa between 1956 and 1994,...