AgelessAnimals

[Earth Liberation Studio @EarthStvdio]

One for Indigenous People's Day.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Across the African continent, the spread of neoliberal economic policies has systematically weakened state institutions, exacerbated social and economic inequalities, and tethered nations to the dictates of global finance. Nigeria serves as a striking illustration of this structural crisis, yet it is far from an isolated case. Without a decisive rupture from the orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus, African countries remain ensnared in a cycle of underdevelopment, regardless of the wealth of talent and ingenuity among their populations.

Global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization play an active role in shaping Africa’s economic trajectory. Through a combination of incentives, conditionalities, and coercive measures, they push governments to implement policies framed as investor-friendly. In practice, these strategies are designed to maximize the inflow of foreign capital while ensuring that most of the generated wealth is extracted from the continent. This often involves the privatization of critical public services such as healthcare and education, the dismantling of labor protections to increase worker exploitation, the introduction of tax breaks for foreign investors, and the liberalization of capital flows to enable unrestricted profit repatriation.

Investment patterns under this model disproportionately favor extractive industries over manufacturing or value-added sectors. Oil fields in Angola, coltan mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and gas operations in Mozambique exemplify this trend. These ventures are frequently geographically isolated, operating in enclaves with minimal regulatory oversight or public transparency. Such arrangements facilitate the rapid extraction of resources while shielding corporations from accountability and perpetuating Africa’s economic dependency. By prioritizing raw resource extraction, these policies hinder the development of domestic industries and maintain the continent as a supplier of cheap primary commodities rather than a generator of diversified economic growth.

Multinational corporations exploit these structural weaknesses further through mechanisms like transfer pricing. Subsidiaries in Africa sell goods and services to parent companies abroad at artificially deflated prices, only for these goods to be resold at full market value in international markets. This practice systematically drains profits from African economies, reduces taxable income locally, and centralizes wealth in Western economies.

Additionally, multinational corporations often inflate operational costs to minimize apparent profits on the continent. Western consulting firms may charge excessive fees for advisory services, or arrange fictitious loans and internal financial transactions that generate interest payments, further reducing local taxable income. The result is a financial architecture that legitimizes the siphoning of wealth while maintaining the facade of legitimate business activity.

Taken together, these dynamics reveal that neoliberalism in Africa operates as a sophisticated form of modern colonialism. It cloaks itself in the language of free markets and development while perpetuating dependency, exploiting natural and human resources, and subordinating entire populations. True emancipation demands a decisive break from these structures, reclaiming national sovereignty, asserting control over local economies and resources, and establishing an independent path to sustainable development. Africa’s liberation is inseparable from economic self-determination, industrial diversification, and the dismantling of exploitative global financial hierarchies.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Today we remember Nat Turner’s courageous uprising.
August 21, 1831

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Have you ever considered how leopards, lions, tigers, caracals, and cheetahs once shared the same habitats across vast regions like Persia, the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Kurdish areas, Mesopotamia, and the Indian subcontinent? Caspian tigers, for example, still roamed parts of Anatolia and the Caucasus into the 1970s. During the medieval period, they were even spotted along the shores of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe.

People often assume that lions and cheetahs are strictly African species, or that tigers belong exclusively to Asia. But when you look at their historical distribution, you see that these animals were once far more widespread. This broader ecological history, especially before the damage caused by European colonialism, challenges the idea that modern political borders reflect natural or cultural divisions. It also undermines simplistic and xenophobic notions of a fixed East and West.

Even today, cheetahs still exist in parts of Iran near the Caspian Sea, though that’s rarely discussed. And when you realize that tigers lived in what is now considered Europe just a few centuries ago, it becomes harder to label the animals of Africa or Asia as inherently foreign or exotic.

[Madeline Pendleton @JeanGreige]

You guys are getting baited into hating countries opposing imperialism because they don’t have progressive social policies, and while it’s fair to be critical of that it’s also worth noting their neo-colonizing western oppressors do not have progressive social policies either.

[Andre2000 🔻 @ComradeAndre2k]

Happy birthday Frantz Fanon

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Read the breakdown here: https://t.co/GGIdhYz3tl

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

There is a genre whose whole purpose is to convince you that war crimes are forgivable.

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

No food in one week. He is dying. Please send aid. Spread the donation links.
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[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Consider donating to a family in need. Help a hungry family. Link in the comments.

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Thoughts on this one: https://t.co/Y3CpSy4qV9

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

"The Hour Of The Furnaces" is a 4 hour call to action that covers both the history of violent neocolonialism in Argentina and methods of resistance. Contains moments of universal pertinence to all global struggles, despite the nationalistic skew. Thoughts in the comments later.

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Thoughts on this one: https://t.co/U0LxSQgRRg

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

"The Road to P@lest!ne" is a Sesame-street level educational short that pulls its punches just enough to be viewable for a younger audience while maintaining the gravity of the situation. One of my favorite shorts on this subject. Thoughts in the comments later.

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Thoughts on this one: https://t.co/473HLOGZh2

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

"Mnemosyne" tells its story in a really unique way. A family narrates a single memory from a multi-generational perspective, showing how historical trauma ripples across time. Very cool. Thoughts in the comments later.

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Casual reminder that a sizable chunk of those firefighters helping in LA rn are American slaves.

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

Thoughts on this one: https://t.co/NDcQOrKWEg

[AgelessAnimals @Ageless_Animals]

My first movie of 2025. "From Ground Zero" is a moving anthology of creative expression from filmmakers surviving in G@z@. At the same time, it's a muzzled creativity. Thoughts in the comments later.