Africa

Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
Why We’re Fed Up with Weak Excuses for Accepting Awards from the Empire
23 Jun 2021
How should we respond when people of color who've spent a lifetime cussing the empire start curtseying to it instead?
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: Murdering Women in Nigeria, Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, May 1930
16 Jun 2021
British colonial officials turned their guns on women in two Nigerian towns in the 1920s, to put down protests against “head” taxes and levies on market stalls, killing scores.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia: Tribalism versus National Consciousness
16 Jun 2021
Ethiopians struggle to forge a national consciousness that supersedes ethnic tribalism, while international human rights NGOs discuss their "responsibility to protect" them, writes Ann Garriso
Siyanda Mohutsiwa
NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership
16 Jun 2021
Ruth Maclean’s article, like countless others in Western media, took place in an Africa without leaders, without public health officials or activists.
Philip Weiss
Two Former Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa Join Tsunami of ‘Apartheid’ Accusations Against Israel
16 Jun 2021
By gradually driving occupied populations from their land and concentrating them into dense and fractured pockets, both South Africa and Israel thwart political autonomy and true democracy.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Corporate Think Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
09 Jun 2021
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
09 Jun 2021
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Prelude to War? The US/NATO, Egypt, and Ethiopian Sovereignty
09 Jun 2021
Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw tells Ann Garrison that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war.
Taytu Bitul
How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of “Black Lives Matter”
09 Jun 2021
Today’s colonialists recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along.
Tiffany N. Florvil
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany N. Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
09 Jun 2021
Black History Month strengthened Black German claims of kinship with their nation and the larger diaspora.