African Stream

PROFIT OVER PEOPLE LIBERIA'S GOLD DILEMMA Mat House village in Liberia, a once thriving rural community, is now facing displacement, pollution and broken promises. Why? Because of illicit gold mining. While Liberia recorded a gold production high of 376,000 ounces in 2022, local villagers in Mat House say they’ve received nothing but poisoned land and polluted rivers. The culprits? A wave of foreign mining companies…

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Continued…. While Firestone grew into one of the world’s largest rubber producers, Liberia was left with environmental destruction, impoverished communities, and virtually no national development from the wealth extracted. After Liberia’s brutal civil war, a new agreement was signed in 2005. But critics argue the terms still overwhelmingly favoured Firestone. The company continues to control vast plantations, while …

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FIRESTONE: HOW U.S. RUBBER GIANT STILL BURNS LIBERIA African Stream officially closed down at the end of July. But before making that decision, we had already been working on this important documentary about the American rubber company Firestone and its history of exploitation. In 1926, Firestone signed a deal with Liberia’s government to lease 1 million acres of land, 10% of the entire country, for just six cents …

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Continued….. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think in the comments.

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MODIBO: THE STORY OF MALI’S PAN-AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY LEADER Modibo Keïta was Mali's foremost pan-African leader. While not as widely known among English-speaking audiences as other greats from the continent, he was one of Africa's most important figures in the revolutionary socialist movement for independence. This documentary, produced by African Stream, offers a closer look at his life, politics and legacy, parti…

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AFRICAN STREAM: DEPLATFORMED BUT NOT DEMORALISED! It’s tough to accept that we had to shut down over baseless accusations by the U.S. government. But instead of bowing out in silence, the team chose to resist, just as our ancestors often did, through dance. You can deplatform us. You can smear us. But you can’t stop us dancing. To all our supporters: thank you. You made African Stream what it was—the most meaningf…

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Continued……. Despite our accusers failing to substantiate their claims, social media giants took down our accounts without asking the U.S. government to provide any evidence to back their allegations. Well, we guess that the U.S. is so trustworthy that the world can believe whatever it says. After all, it didn't lie about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. It didn't even lie about the Gulf of Tonkin incident…

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CHRONOLOGY OF ATTACKS ON AFRICAN STREAM For the last three years, African Stream has done what it was created for: fearlessly expose the crimes of imperialism against our people on the continent and in the diaspora. From Cape to Cairo, Haiti to the U.S, we have brought to light issues that many influential people in Western capitals would rather keep under the carpet. For this, we have been made to pay a high pri…

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Continued……. In Australia, British colonisers declared the land ‘Terra Nullius’ - or nobody’s land - while thousands of Aboriginal people were massacred in cold blood. In Queensland, it’s thought over 24,000 Indigenous lives were taken by government-sanctioned forces. This was not law and order. This was ethnic cleansing, dressed in European uniforms. Across the Pacific, the lie of civilisation took the form of ‘…

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WHO WERE THE CIVILIZED AND WHO WERE THE SAVAGES? They said they came to civilise. But what they brought was nothing but savagery. From Haiti to Australia to the Pacific Islands, this video unpacks the brutal truth behind Europe’s so-called ‘civilising mission.’ The Taíno and Arawak peoples of Haiti, once thriving communities with deep spiritual and agricultural systems, were nearly wiped out within decades of Col…

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Continued…….. The revolution shocked the world. Western powers feared a left-leaning state in East Africa. And so, within months, Zanzibar merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania, a strategic union aimed at at keeping the imperialist forces at bay. Today, Zanzibar remains semi-autonomous, and its revolution is remembered with both pride and pain. It dismantled colonial systems, but left scars that remain. Still…

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THE ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION In 1964, Zanzibar, an African-majority island, erupted in revolution. For generations, political power, wealth and land had been controlled by a small Arab elite, a structure preserved by British colonial rule - and even after so-called independence. African Zanzibaris remained landless, jobless and locked out of the system. Frustration simmered. Then, on 12 January, it exploded. A coali…

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