White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

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Paper presented at ‘Sowing the Whirlwind’: Nuclear Politics and the Historical Record, a conference held by ICWS/SAS White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, PublicAffairs, 2021. ISBN 978-1-5417-6829-1 To Williams, I give the highest compliment I can give: I wish I had written this book!’ — Kim Scipes, Countercurrents This is a turning point in the history of Africa,” Nkrumah told Ghana’s National Assembly during a visit from Congolese prime minister Lumumba a few weeks into the Congo’s self-rule. “If we allow the independence of the Congo to be compromised in any way by the imperialist and capitalist forces, we shall expose the sovereignty and independence of all Africa to grave risk.”

Nkrumah possessed an acute understanding of the threat and of the people behind it. Only months after his speech, Lumumba was assassinated by a Belgian and Congolese firing squad, opening the door to decades of pro-Western tyranny in the country. Bad Guy? Actually just a naïve simpleton, a stooge, of a sort that was not unknown in those days. Like another woolly-headed fool that we’re coming to shortly: Henry Wallace. Armstrong was basically a Trojan horse for the CIA … He would have been horrified. Facts, not fiction Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation, Allen Lane, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7139-9811-5 – on the founding president of Botswana This statement about the death of Patrice Lumumba, the first post-independence Prime Minister of what is known now as the Democratic Republic of Congo, is presented in an academic work. The observation is all the more convincing because it is supported by a solid study. Moreover, this now historical fact illuminates the contradiction between the official rhetoric of the United States of America, overtly in favor of decolonization, and its actual practice. The book also reveals the interaction between US business mining interests and official action to prevent the Soviets from getting their hands on the Congo’s rich uranium mine, which had been used to build the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. As early as 1965, Ghana first President Kwame Nkrumah, in his book Neo-Colonialism, made extensive accusations against the US, without the same evidence but with great lucidity, shortly before his overthrow orchestrated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).In 2016 Williams published Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb. The focus was on Shinkolobwe, the world’s biggest uranium mine, in the Congolese Katanga province. Of crucial geostrategic importance, in the 1940s it supplied the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bombs, which devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shinkolobwe remained the main resource in the American nuclear arming of the 1950s. White Malice Williams quotes (p. 77) a high-ranking CIA agent to illustrate the overall Western mindset. He declared in 1957: Indeed, after reading this book, one could get the impression that every American or European living and working in Africa at this time was an intelligence operative with a shadowy agenda. Dag Hammarskjold and the Decolonisation of Africa: Looking through a telescope at Ndola airport, 17-18 September 1961

She is frequently invited to act as a historical advisor to the media (television, radio and print). She also serves as historical consultant to the production of films (see below) and has been advisor to the work of independent and official inquiries (for example see below). Project summary relevant to Fellowship: Religion, Performance and Queer Artists of Colour in South Africa: Interview with Dr Megan Robertson Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II, PublicAffairs, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61039-654-7 Organiser with Dr Mandy Banton of a colloquium revisiting themes emerging from a conference held three years earlier on Dag Hammarskjold, the UN and the End of Empire. Speakers were John Y Jones (Voksenasen, Oslo), Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala), and Edward Mortimer (All Souls College, Oxford). The Hammarskjöld book had a huge impact. It prompted Lord Lea of Crondall to lead an enabling committee that in 2012 set up the Hammarskjöld Commission tasked to assess new evidence pertinent to the plane crash. That panel’s report led former UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon to invite Mohamed Chande Othman, the former chief justice of Tanzania, to conduct a full inquiry into the incident.Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb (UK); Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (USA)

Malice then goes on to suggest that Dahl pestered wife Patricia Neal for sex when she was partially paralyzed after suffering a series of strokes and a three-week coma. What he leaves out is that Roald enabled a near-100% recovery by forcing Pat through a rigorous physical therapy protocol at a military base. He also resurrected Pat’s career, getting her roles in films and TV commercials. (Ayn Rand sighting here! Pat’s role in the film of The Fountainhead gives us another opportunity to see the AR bobble-head bounce up again.) But make no mistake: Williams ruthlessly reveals through factual evidence the unsavoury machinations of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Africa during the Cold War until the late 1960s. While scholarly analyses of this era have increased, the literature mainly focuses on how geostrategic aspects had an impact on international policy. In contrast, this is the first detailed account disclosing a Western dirty war through detailed quotes from original documents and by those involved. Hurst and Co in the UK; Jacana in South Africa; Columbia University Press in the USA (later Oxford University Press in the USA).Imagine how much more important uranium was, seen through the eyes of the US at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and ’60s. Susan Williams leaves little to the imagination in examining the diabolical actions of the CIA in pursuit of US policy with particular reference to newly independent Ghana and the Congo. In November 1959, the CIA created a dedicated Africa division. According to British researcher Susan Williams, the CIA's brief in Africa was to, by any means imaginable, secure American power across the continent. Susan served as an advisor and Talking Head on this television programme on British imperial history.

There’s also some good stuff about MK-ultra, and the post-WW2 politics of Uranium, which centered around the Shinkolobwe mine in the Katanga province of the Congo. The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication, Allen Lane, 2003. ISBN 978-0-71399-573-2 – on the abdication of Edward VIII Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso from 1983-1987, is currently in the news because an investigation has just begun into his assassination. This collection of his interviews and speeches provides a window on his programmes to improve people’s lives, involving land redistribution, literacy and education, a focus on women’s rights and a massive vaccination scheme. Revered as Africa’s Che Guevara, Sankara defied neocolonial control by France, the former colonial power, and the US. He described debt, presented as aid, as “neocolonialism, in which colonisers transformed themselves into ‘technical assistance’. We should say ‘technical assassins’.”

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Susan Williams is a historian and author, based in London. Her latest book is White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, published in 2021. [1] [2] Her other publications include: The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication, a book about the abdication of Edward VIII, published in 2003; [3] and Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation, published in 2006, [4] on which the 2016 film A United Kingdom is based. [5] [6]



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