Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020
24 Mar 2020
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Mark P. Fancher
Calm Down About Coronavirus and Follow Africa’s Lead
18 Mar 2020
Europe – not Africa – is the current epicenter of the disease.
Mike Davis
COVID-19: The Monster is at the Door
18 Mar 2020
The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments.
Joy James
Teaching Theory, Talking Community
04 Mar 2020
For centuries, Indigenous and African peoples in the Americas have theorized for their lives and so collectively crafted a revolutionary praxis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Foster’s book, “African Catholic”
04 Mar 2020
The decolonization of Africa, and the determined activism of prominent African Catholics, played an important role in diversifying the church.
R. Divya Nair
The Gift of India and the Violence of the West
04 Mar 2020
Five centuries ago, Europeans set about subjugating the non-“white” peoples of the world, and they are still at it.
Margaret Eby
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
04 Mar 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American supermarkets are selling you sweet potatoes, not yams.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will?
02 Mar 2020
“We must raise the issues of war and imperialism in electoral politics in this country,” even if the Democrats don’t, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, speaking at