S5 E14: Africans in the United Nations: Samir Amin, the lighthouse in the night

My African Cliches (English)

In the short list of Africans who have significantly impacted the United Nations, today I am featuring an Egyptian giant, giant way before Mohammed Salah, but largely unknown to the African public, despite having influenced the creation and transformation of several UN agencies such as UNECA, IFAD, UNTAD, all of which still exist today. The creation of these agencies symbolises a silent revolution that changed the very philosophy of the United Nations system today.

To find out more about him, the Sankofa takes you today inside the head of one of the most intelligent men the Earth has seen, a prominent African economist whose work on capitalism, colonialism and underdevelopment should haunt us, all, especially in all the temples of today's wild capitalism.

Hello and please salute Professor Samir Amin.