White Malice: How the CIA strangled African independence at birth

Patrice Lumumba, left, first Prime Minister of independent Congo in 1960. The CIA celebrated his death.

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What you need to know:

  • Williams’ new book seems like the third in a trilogy. Its title, White Malice, captures the racist arrogance of power, unscrupulously destabilising and (re-)gaining control over sovereign states as a form of colonialism by other means.