TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Tokunbo Oke on how European Capitalism Underdeveloped Afrika
CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time Tokunbo Oke is a historian and member of ALISC , the African Liberation Support Campaign Network. “ALISC is a UK-based solidarity group set up by Africans forced int o exile in the 1980s because they opposed Structural Adjustment Programmes. ALISC supports groups in Africa fighting to get power into the hands of the African majority, which means out of the hands of transnational profit-making companies, international banks and the wealthy African elite. "One of ALISC Network’s jobs is to publicise what these groups are doing - and to expl ain the history of resistance in Africa , which hardly anyone knows. During slavery and colonial occupation, African women and men didn’t sit around waiting for someone to save them - they fought.” When many people look at Afrik a , they see only the present, and assume t he present ex plains everything about the past. But a glance at 19th Century Greece would say littl e about the wonders of an...