Will the FFD4 in Seville break from the past or perpetuate a cycle of neocolonial extraction?

As global elites gather in Spain for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) starting from tomorrow 30 June, their exists no indication that this forum will not once again peddle the same old myths: that more loans, ‘sustainable’ debt frameworks, and technocratic tinkering can ‘fix’ Africa’s financial crisis, characterised by cyclical heavy indebtedness.

Sovereignty or Surrender: Confronting Africa’s Comprador Class

The political economy of post-independence Africa presents a profound paradox: nations that achieved formal sovereignty through anti-colonial struggles now find their economic policies dictated by external actors through sophisticated mechanisms of control.