Neoliberal Imperialism and Pan-African Resistance

Pan-African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication

20 In view of gathering baseline information about the prevalence of animal trypanosomosis, 21 the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) funded a cross 22 sectional survey in the Region of the Boucle du Mouhoun which constitutes the Northern 23 limit of the tsetse distribution in Burkina. This cross sectional study was carried out in 53 24 villages located in the ...

Commercial Imperialism?

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries’ decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had greater influence over foreign l...

Palaeostress configuration of Pan-African orogeny: evidence from the Igarra schist belt, SW Nigeria

The stress configuration and tectonic analysis of the Pan – African orogeny is drawn from the Igarra schist belt, southwestern Nigeria. The analysis of conjugate shear fractures of the schist belt indicates that two distinct compressive events (NE – SW and E – W) occurred in this Pan – African mobile zone. The palaeostress systems reveal a clockwise rotation of compressional axis from D1 (NE – ...

Gender, culture and imperialism

Recent years have witnessed a small avalanche of critical historical work on British imperial culture across the social sciences and not least within geography. The inspiration behind the critical interest in empire, knowledge and power was undoubtedly Edward Said’s groundbreaking and provocative Orientalism. Waves of debate have permeated throughout the social sciences and humanities in respon...

Imperialism and the Communist International