by Itumeleng Mothoagae, January 4, 2026
From the vantage of decolonial delinkings, the necropolitical calculus of the United States’ predatory strikes on Venezuelan lifeworlds capturing Nicolás Maduro and arrogating a spectral ‘transitional’ sovereignty epitomises the unrelenting colonial matrix of power, wherein imperial necro-agency engineers the slow death of subaltern polities to secure petro-capital’s insatiable appetites. Infused with Negritude’s insurgent humanism, this aggression desecrates the négritude of Venezuelan resistance, effacing the pluriversal multiplicities of Black and Indigenous ontologies in favour of epistemicidal monocultures that echo the Haitian Revolution’s spectral hauntings within the modern/colonial gendering of violence. A hermeneutic of Africana critical memory thus demands a theological delinking: unmasking this biopolitical theatre as neocolonial necropolitics, it summons a decolonial praxis of re-existence, where Southern vitalities rupture the imperial grammars of disposability and affirm the onto-epistemological dignity of the damned.