Africa

Sampie Terreblanche
The Co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’
01 Feb 2018
After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last month, it is vital to understand deep structural barriers that prevent South Africa’s achieveme
Horace G. Campbell
Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
30 Jan 2018
“Up to the very end he was critical of the way in which the top leadership of the African National Congress had capitulated before international capital.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 22, 2018
23 Jan 2018
NCOBRA's Kamm Howard on the stsatus and prospects for reparations legislation in the US House of Representatives now that John Conyers, the perennial sponsor of reparations legislation has retired.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Maurice Carney: The US Has Always Been the Wrong Side of History in Africa
23 Jan 2018
With AFRICOM and its "soldier-to-soldier" relationships having taken the place of US African diplomacy in the last decade the US is positioned to exercise hegemonic power over Africans in their own
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Is Anyone On the Side of the Congolese Now? Ann Garrison speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
10 Jan 2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the heart of Black Africa.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Boniface Musavuli
Congolese President Attacks Peaceful New Year’s Eve Protestors
03 Jan 2018
“While the rest of the world celebrates their hopes for the New Year, the Congolese suffer repression and death.”
Netfa Freeman
What Western Imperialism Is Up to Now in Zimbabwe
03 Jan 2018
“The capitalist agenda is to neo-colonize Zimbabwe and appropriate its labor and land.”
Phakamile Hlubi
NUMSA: The South African Union That Confronts New Forms of Apartheid Through Class Struggle
03 Jan 2018
“The massacre of the mine workers in August of 2012 was actually the catalyst for the decision that NUMSA made in the following year to break away from the all
Vijay Prashad
Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
03 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A New Rwandan-Ugandan Occupation of Congo?
31 Dec 2017
Uganda, which along with Rwanda repeatedly invaded the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, has once again deployed its forces in Congo’s resource-rich Beni region.