Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Creating a “De-Colonized” Ethnography
01 Apr 2019
The social science of ethnology must be “de-colonized,” said Dr. Selina Makana, a Kenya-born scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, at Columbia
Robin Philpot
Truth, Freedom and Peace will Prevail in Rwanda
20 Mar 2019
Millions of Africans in three countries have died in the 25 years since Paul Kagame’s troops shot down a plane carrying two African presidents.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Community Control of Cops on a Roll in Chicago
15 Mar 2019
“The people have given us a referendum” on CPAC, the Civilian Police Accountability Commission, said Frank Chapman, of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repres
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alys Eve Weinbaum’s "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery”
13 Mar 2019
Slavery is everywhere banned, but the ethos of the slave trade thrives in the baby-buying business.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sharla Fett on “Recaptured Africans”
13 Mar 2019
The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to “recapture” and then expel the human cargo.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South African Sex Workers Embrace Feminism
12 Mar 2019
By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral
This Is Hell
The Known Unknowns of the Secret US Drone War in Somalia
06 Mar 2019
US troops landed in oil-rich Somalia in 1992 and never really left.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Grandfather’s Powerful African Microphone
26 Feb 2019
GoGo Breeze, an elder with a radio program on a provincial Zambian station, counsels listeners on wage theft and other problems facing the common people -- and gets results.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Confronting the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
13 Feb 2019
Democrats may hate Trump, but they join in white supremacist solidarity with his aggression against the mostly non-white people of Venezeula.
Adom Getachew
When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation
13 Feb 2019
In the 1970s, a bloc of Third world states forced the UN to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth.