Continuing Plunder! Brutal Extraction of Africa's Resources
Channel: Africa Faith and Justice Network
Date: 2021-10-26

How is Africa’s wealth stolen? Where is the looting of Africa most intense today? What historical trends have brought African nations to the position they are in today? What can be done to move forward and create a more prosperous Africa?

The Advocacy Network for Africa’s (AdNA) Accountability Working Group with the Africa Faith and Justice Network, America Friends Service Committee, US/Africa Bridge Building Project, and Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International hosted a webinar on October 21, 2021 “Continuing Plunder! Brutal Extraction of Africa’s Resources.” This webinar on the blatant depletion of Africa’s wealth through internationally-owned extractive enterprises, presents indelible evidence to raise awareness of a very consequential phenomenon.

The large scale transfer of wealth out of Africa drives much of today’s global affairs, and also explains much of yesterday’s. For four centuries outsiders have been plundering and carting away Africa’s natural resource wealth on an astonishing scale. The webinar will shine a light on key facets of the continuing pillaging of Africa in our time, the 21st century and will highlight how brutal this extraction remains with instigated wars, dangerous poisons, significant human and animal displacement and unsightly filth inflicting destruction on the people as well as on the fauna, flora and water sources of the once-lush environment.