December 12, 2009
Saturday
“New Scramble for Africa” at IBW Forum
- Dec 12, 2009 from 9:00am to 11:00am EST
- Location: Academic Core Building at York College
- Description: - Press Advisory - New York, November 30, 2009 -- W.E.B DuBois, one of the leading Pan Africanist of the 20th century, once declared that “today out of Africa come 95 percent of the worlds diamonds; 80 percent of the cobalt; 60 percent of the gold;…90 percent of the chrome and manganese;… and increasing part of the uranium and radium and large amounts of tin, iron…” In essence DuBois was proclaiming that Africa is the richest continent on the face of the earth. Cognizant of this fact, European nations gathered in Berlin in 1884 to carve up the continent to ruthlessly exploit its vast resources. Despite successful liberation movements that broke the yoke of colonialism, one hundred and twenty-five years after the Berlin Congress, there appears to be a “new scramble for Africa” with nations like China, India, Korea and the United States competing to gain control over the incredible wealth of resources on the continent. In some instances, it appears that self-aggrandizing/corrupt African
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