Africa

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia: National Aspiration, Identity, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
10 Sep 2025
“Ethiopia just changed the continent of Africa forever.” - African development economist and electricity activist
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Second Africa Climate Summit Reveals The New Face of Colonialism; Technocrats and Cryptocolonization (Part 1, The Setting).
10 Sep 2025
The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of "nature-based solutions," corporations like the Gates Foundation are pushing schemes that will turn…
The Editors
Black Agenda Report Will Return on September 10, 2025
02 Sep 2025
Black Agenda Report will return with our next issue on Wednesday, September 10. Please watch our new video, "Inequality in Kenya: View From Kibera," produced in collaboration with the North-South…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
"Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera" Documentary Premieres August 28
27 Aug 2025
Join political activist and Black Agenda Report’s contributing editor Ajamu Baraka and members of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya on a trip to Kibera, Africa’s largest slum.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Delirious New Cold Warrior Ted Cruz Proposes US/Israel/Taiwan/Somaliland Pact
20 Aug 2025
Senator Ted Cruz has written an open letter urging Trump to recognize Somaliland, causing jubilation among Somaliland secessionists.
Edzorna Francis Mensah
Understanding the plot to break Ghana and destroy the AES Countries
13 Aug 2025
When Ghanaian hospitals run out of basics and power grids fail, it’s not mismanagement; it’s the deliberate unraveling by the west of a society that dared to partner with anti-imperialist neighbors.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Isaias Afwerki: My Struggle for Eritrea and Africa
13 Aug 2025
Michel Collon has interviewed Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and says the world must listen to him.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Eritrea: We Won’t Kneel Down
06 Aug 2025
Eritrean Americans celebrated their 51st Eritrean Festival and their home country’s resolute independence from August 1 to 3, 2025.
Nicholas Mwangi
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
06 Aug 2025
Gambians from all walks of life – led by the youth-driven GALA movement mobilized across the country on July 23 in an anti-corruption protest as momentum for change grows.
Isabel Lourenço
The Only Fair Negotiation Between Morocco and the Polisario: When, Not If, to End the Occupation
06 Aug 2025
Morocco's colonial project in Western Sahara has persisted not through legitimacy, but through the complicity of other nations and United Nations inaction.