Africa

Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 22, 2016
23 Feb 2016
When Paul Robeson Denounced a President to His Face Dr. Gerald Horne, the prolific professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston, has turned out another book. Paul…
Patrick Bond
World Bank Punches South Africa’s Poor and Coddles the Rich
17 Feb 2016
by Patrick Bond Despite abundant evidence of pro-corporate bias, the Bank endorses the government’s “sound policy” on redistribution because Bank researchers cannot grapple with the core problem that…
Motsoko Pheko
The Shame of South Africa’s Black Political Prisoners
10 Feb 2016
by Motsoko Pheko More than twenty years after the end of formal apartheid, several African nationalists who resisted the inhuman system are still languishing in prison. Yet many apartheid agents who…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
African Union Refuses to Invade Burundi
03 Feb 2016
by Ann Garrison The African Union has reversed its decision to send 5,000 “peacekeepers” to Burundi, at the instigation of the U.S. and Europeans. The real threat to Burundi comes from…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Uganda: Upcoming Elections and Ongoing U.S. Influence: An Interview with Milton Allimadi
27 Jan 2016
by Ann Garrison President Gen. Yoweri Museveni, Washington’s dependable hit-man in Africa, has been in office for 30 years. Museveni could rig next month’s elections, as he has previously done.…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda, the Enduring Lies: A Project Censored Interview with Professor Ed Herman by Ann Garrison
20 Jan 2016
by Ann Garrison Nowhere is The Big Lie more powerful than in the corporate and official Western version of events in Rwanda and the Congo, where Tutsi dictator and U.S. hit-man Paul Kagame is…
Dan Glazebrook
“Deadliest Terror in the World”: The West’s Latest Gift to Africa
20 Jan 2016
by Dan Glazebrook By engineering chaos in Libya with the violent overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011, NATO “effectively turned over the entire armory of an advanced industrial state to the region’s most…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2016
19 Jan 2016
U.S. Demands Global Respect, But Disrespects Its Own Black Citizens President Obama’s polices, “both foreign and domestic, are the same as any leader of the Empire,” said South Carolina activist and…
Washington's Blog
Clinton Email Shows that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya
13 Jan 2016
Hillary Clinton’s “private” email correspondence with Middle East wheeler-dealer Sidney Blumenthal discusses France’s motives in pushing for a NATO attack on Libya, in 2011 – including Muammar Qadd
Navid Nasr
Nigeria Massacre: The Islamic Movement and Its Discontents
06 Jan 2016
by Navid Nasr On December 12, as many as 1,000 people were gunned down in the streets and in their homes in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria. They were Shia Muslims, defenders of the rights of…