Ray Bush

Nov 5, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe |Ray Bush

For more than five decades the Sahrawi people of Northeast Africa have been denied their rightful place in the international community. What has been described as “Africa’s last colony”, the Western Sahara territory is still waiting to exercise its decades-long desire for national independence and sovereignty. Formerly known as the “Spanish Sahara”, the area has been under the domination of the Kingdom of Morocco since 1975.

Oct 16, 2024 | roape.net | Ray Bush

ROAPE’s Ray Bush introduces Volume 51 Issue 181 of the journal, a special 50th anniversary issue on imperialism and Africa. The role of imperialism in undermining African sovereignty and independence has been a recurrent theme in ROAPE since the journal’s first issue editorial back in 1974. Here, Bush interrogates what imperialism is, how it may have changed over time, and with what consequences.

Oct 2, 2024 | scienceopen.com | Ray Bush

It is an irony of history that coercion, which is so effective that it can afford to be silent, is scarcely recognised as such; it is only on occasions when its effectiveness is diminished to a point where it has to come out in the ugliest of colours that its reality begins to strike us. The deafening silence about imperialism … is thus a reflection of the extraordinary strength and vigour it is displaying at present.

Mar 5, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Ray Bush |Abayomi Azikiwe |Aby L. Sène

Carbon and biodiversity offsets are the latest imperialist weapons used against African people and their nations. Self-determination is the key to ecological health for the continent.

Feb 6, 2024 | roape.net | Ray Bush

ROAPE’s Ray Bush reviews a major new volume on the politics, practice and legacy of Lenin. In a highly original volume, the editors, Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichorn and Patrick Anderson, have assembled contributions including love letters, fiction and political treatises which affirm the significance of Lenin’s contribution to understanding and engaging in revolutionary moments.