Africa Enslaved by Debt

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Creator

Wyatt Tee Walker; American Committee on Africa

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

December 2000

Type of Item

Article

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

Reprint of an article that appeared in Metro Exchange, Vol. 12 No. 21, December 2000 that calls for the cancelling of Africa's debt. The article says it is the end of the year 2000 and Africans are still in chains; today, it is the bondage of foreign debt that enslaves the people of Africa; African countries are trapped beneath a crushing debt burden of some $300 billion, in a continent where many subsist on under $1 per day; the All-Africa Conference of Churches has called this debt a new form of slavery, as vicious as the slave trade; in this millennium year, it is past time for the US and the international community to act to break the shackles of Africa's unpayable debt and release the...

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Publisher

American Committee on Africa

Organization

American Committee on Africa

Coverage Africa

Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission Africa Action (successor to the American Committee on Africa).

Collection

George M. Houser Africa collection, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections