We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power. We want to change the administration and reconstruct it with a different kind of civil servant. We want to democratise our society, to open up our minds to a universe of collective responsibility, so that we may be bold enough to invent the future. We want to ease the pressures, to free our countryside from medieval stagnation or regression. Together, the set of images is a visual testament to the continued ‘fragmentation and subordination of the continent’s peoples and governments’, as this dossier writes. Meanwhile, the pins and thread connecting these places remind us of the ‘war rooms’ of colonial domination. The satellite photos were gathered by data artist Josh Begley, who led a mapping project to answer the question: ‘how do you measure a military footprint?’įor this dossier, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research physically projected images and coordinates of these hidden-away sites onto a map of Africa, visually reconstructing the apparatus of militarisation today. The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM’s military bases on the African continent – both ‘enduring’ and ‘non-enduring’, as they are officially called. How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? Some of AFRICOM’s known permanent and semi-permanent military bases on the African continent, 2019.
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