Africa

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Why Al-Shabaab Kills
08 Apr 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The Real News Network
Jesus Garcia Loses Chicago Mayoral Election to Obama's Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
08 Apr 2015
by the Real News Network Chicago mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia rode a wave of public outrage against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but fell short in Tuesday's election. BAR managing editor Bruce A.…
Ronnie Kasrils
Danny Schechter (1942-2015): Media Activist and Clandestine Courier
01 Apr 2015
by Ronnie Kasrils Danny Schecter, the “media dissector,” prolific writer and tireless activist, once acted as a secret courier for the South African freedom movement, and “forged strong personal…
Thomas C. Mountain
Surviving Climate Disaster in Africa's Sahel
01 Apr 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain The small, fiercely independent nation of Eritrea has mobilized its entire population to combat the effects of climate change. “When the rains failed in 2013, we had enough to…
Black Agenda Radio, Week of April 1, 2015
01 Apr 2015
Bottom Line: Fire Some Cops A U.S. Justice Department report shows Philadelphia police are five times as trigger happy as cops in New York City. The report contains 49 findings and 91 recommendations…
Mark P. Fancher
Has Terrorism Stepped into Africa’s Political Void?
25 Mar 2015
by Mark P. Fancher
Black Agenda Radio, Week of March 25, 2015
24 Mar 2015
Black Agenda Radio, week of March 25, 2015 “Liberal” Israeli Zionists Hoped to Prolong the Farce of Negotiations Had the “liberal” Zionist Union defeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Burkina Faso Courts Allow Exhumation of Thomas Sankara Remains
16 Mar 2015
by Abayomi Azikiwe During his four years as head of a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, Captain Thomas Sankara captured the imaginations of Marxists and Pan-Africanists throughout the world.…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Media Silence on Libya
25 Feb 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Four years ago, the United States and its NATO and royal Arab allies destroyed the government of Libya and handed the country over to jihadists,…
Dan Glazebrook
The Lessons of Libya
03 Dec 2014
Three years ago, in late October 2011, the world witnessed the final defeat of the Libyan Jamahiriya – the name by which the Libyan state was known until overthrown in 2011, meaning literally the “