Sunday 30 April 2023

Kim Scipes (2023) White Malice

Scipes, Kim. 2023. “White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa” by Susan Williams (Public Affairs Press, 2021): A Review Essay. Class, Race and Corporate Power 11(1): 1-8.

Abstract

Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development. This especially pertains to sub-Saharan Africa, overwhelmingly populated by black people, thus fitting the trope of white supremists that black people cannot successfully govern themselves.

This book by Susan Williams annihilates the lie. Williams details the impact of stealing millions of people for enslavement, the subsequent colonization of the continent by Western European powers and then, after the decolonization of a number of these countries, the recolonization of the continent by the United States operating explicitly albeit covertly through its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).