Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation - Softcover

Yves Engler continues his groundbreaking analyses of past and present Canadian foreign policy. The author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, and other works that challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, documents Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, the scramble for Africa and European colonialism. The book reveals Ottawa s opposition to anticolonial struggles, its support for apartheid South Africa and Idi Amin s coup, and its role in ousting independence leaders Patrice Lumumba and Kwame Nkrumah. Based on an exhaustive look at the public record as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa shows how the federal government pressed African countries to follow neoliberal economic prescriptions and sheds light on Canada s part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, as well as how Canada s indifference to climate change means a death sentence to ever-growing numbers of Africans."

Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler has been dubbed one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today (Briarpatch), in the mould of I.F. Stone (Globe and Mail), ever-insightful (rabble.ca) and a Leftist gadfly (Ottawa Citizen). His six books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others. Yves became a foreign-policy expert by working as a night doorman in Montreal He s in the mould of I. F. Stone, who wasted no time with politicians, who all have an agenda, but went instead straight to the public record. - Rick Salutin, Globe and Mail