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 ou…

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 n…

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 histor…

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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 th…

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. Yo…

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 wor…

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 hav…