The tempo of U.S. military occupation of Africa quickens by the day.
Seizing every real and manufactured crisis as an opportunity, Washington
has created a continental infrastructure that has already reduced most
African armies to appendages of U.S. foreign policy, dependencies of the
Pentagon. American armed forces operate across the length and breadth
of Africa and exercise effective control over the armies of nearly all
of the continent’s constituent states.
-- Glen Ford, "U.S. Deploys More Special Forces in Search of Kony, Africa’s Stand-in for Osama bin Laden" (Black Agenda Report).