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Uploaded: 23 Oct 2017 (9 years ago) · Shared: 08 May 2018
Duration: 13:29
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https://democracynow.org - We continue to examine the U.S. military presence in Africa, and what happened during the ambush of U.S. special forces bymilitants in the west African nation of Niger, which is now the subject of a military and FBI investigation. We are joined from Luanda, Angola by Horace Campbell, who is currently spending a year in West Africa as the Kwame Nkrumah Chair at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. He is a peace and justice scholar and Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University.
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Who is Horace Campbell?Horace Campbell is a noted international peace and justice scholar. He is a Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he has been involved in Africa's Liberation Struggles and in the struggles for peace and justice globally for more than four decades. From his years in Toronto, Canada, to his sojourns in Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom and parts of the Caribbean, Campbell has been an influential force offering alternatives to the hegemonic ideas of Eurocentrism. He currently teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University.
What is Government?A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. Each government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy.
What is African?The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands. Each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan populations.
