Africa

Nigerian Military: “The Real Boko Haram”
16 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When the United States and Saudi Arabia partnered to spread global jihadist terror, they set the stage for massacres throughout Asia and…
Mark P. Fancher
Big Business, Big Guns and Big Lies in Africa
16 Dec 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Africa has been invaded and re-occupied, militarily and commercially. “Non-African superpowers are competing for and staking claims to Africa’s resources while Africans look on…
Nick Turse
AFRICOM: America's Empire of Military Bases in Africa
09 Dec 2015
AFRICOM: America's Empire of Military Bases in Africa by Nick Turse The Pentagon claims to have only a single US military base on the African continent. This is an outright lie. the…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Negroes Need Not Apply: The EU-Africa Malta Conference
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Desperate to stem the “blackening” of the white homeland, the European Union last month offered billions in bribes to African…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda Conscripts Burundian Refugees into New “Rebel Force”: An Interview with Jeff Drumtra
01 Dec 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan Tutsi dictator Paul Kagame came to power as a leader of a Uganda-based rebel army that invaded Rwanda, plunging the nation a into civil war that ended in the deaths of…
amandla mobi
South African TV Breaks Promise to Marikana Widows
01 Dec 2015
by amandla.mobi Three years ago, police massacred 34 striking miners at Marikana, South Africa – a watershed event in the growing resistance to the African National Congress government’s neoliberal…
Daniel Wedi Korbaria
I’ve Already Seen This Movie: Eritrea and the “War by Media”
18 Nov 2015
by Daniel Wedi Korbaria A U.S.-scripted drama demonizes Eritrea as a world-class “human rights” violator whose citizens are fleeing for their lives to Europe. The Europeans, on U.S. orders, create…
Issa Shivji
Whither Africa in the Global South?: Lessons of Bandung and Pan-Africanism
11 Nov 2015
by Issa Shivji Africa’s comprador ruling classes and educated middle class are so compromised by imperialism that they are incapable of providing the revolutionary leadership required for the…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Will the West Create Its Next Failed State in Burundi?
11 Nov 2015
by Ann Garrison In the current era, states do not “fail” – they are targeted and destroyed. The tiny central African nation of Burundi appears to be next on the West’s list. U.S. ambassador to the…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
War, Repression and International Gangsterism: U.S. State Policy from Benghazi to Baltimore
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka When it comes to maintaining U.S. imperial power and the rule of the rich, impunity is absolute. The congressional Benghazi hearings exposed not a single…