AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Jorge Heine The kidnapping and subsequent release of U.S. nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her young daughter in Haiti in early August 2023 drew brief international attention to crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation. But the truth is that such kidnappings are commonplace for Haitians, and they rarely receive attention from outside the country itself. Indeed, Haiti has become a forgotten crisis to many international bodies and foreign governments. News that Kenya has offered to lead an international effort to bring order to the country only underscores the lack of action by other nations closer to Haiti. As someone who has written a book, “Fixing Haiti,” on the last concerted outside intervention – the United Nations’ stabilizing mission

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor/Special to The African Times/USA  One of the weapons of Imperialism in Africa, whether in the pre-colonization, colonization and post-colonization era is mind control. The external powers most often are in the business of dominance and exploitation for as long as it can control the minds and perception of the dominated. In the same vein, one of the strongest weapons of anti-imperialism is the undoing and dismantling of this control of the minds of the victims of imperialism. This was successfully deployed during the era of the struggle for decolonization. Although what was achieved had been tagged “flag independence” – political independence without economic independence – there has