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Africa: A Continent Under Lockdown
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
21 Nov 2017
🖨️ Print Article

“AFRICOM perpetuates the myth that Africa needs policing,” said Washington DC human rights activist Netfa Freeman, representing the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) at the national conference of the Black Is Back Coalition, at Howard University. “AFRICOM has to be seen in the same light as the militarization of our communities” here in the U.S.

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