US wants to use South Sudan to gain strategic advantage but China may be the peace broker.

Nii Akuetteh wonders why his fellow Pan-Africanists and anti-imperialists are in a rage over the six-month imperialist intervention in Libya but not over the ten years Gaddafi was an imperialist stooge exiling, kidnapping, torturing and killing Africans, anti-imperialists and democrats.

cc The current global economic crisis is not merely a devastating development, writes Nii Akuetteh, but a clear failure of the Washington consensus, neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. Lamenting the recent G20 summit's tripling of the power of the IMF in spite of the fund's clear failure to acknowledge its own shortcomings, Akuetteh argues that it is now up to Congress and President Obama to force the fund to answer vital questions around its relentless, dogmatic imposition of neoliberalist policy across Africa.

Congratulations, Dr. Zeleza. This impressive essay makes the case for me: You are not just prolific but erudite also. Under the impression that you are an African immigrant in North America, I feel special, additional (but unearned) pride because I am one too. Still, with your indulgence, I must point out a flaw: You were too uncritical of the admirably large number of analysts you quoted. Consider two examples, the first being Archbishop Tutu. I have met the good Archbishop, having chauffeured him during one visit to Washington DC at the height of the US Free South Africa Movement in the late 1980s. And I continue to admire and give moral support to his work. However, his passionate comments on Obama, while understandable, are over the top, in my view...

cc. Barack Obama’s election is a political earthquake, and one whose tremors will be felt strongly in Africa, writes Nii Akuetteh. Under George W. Bush, the rhetorical support for democracy in Africa was not matched by deeds, but Obama will be better able to understand the problems of Africa and push for democracy effectively, the author contends.