Africa

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda's US-Backed Pit-Bull Regime Promotes Instability Through Violence in Burundi
29 Jul 2015
by Ann Garrison
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
Black Unionists Try to Save South Africa from Becoming a Failed State
22 Jul 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist “What the South African people fought for is not what they have received… it’s time that we continue the struggle for liberation,” said labor…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Fight For A Socialist South Africa
15 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford South Africa’s most militant labor leaders are pressing forward with plans to build a real socialist party to challenge the ANC government’s capitulation to global…
Theogene Rudasingwa
UK Government Was Right in Arresting Rwandan Spy Chief
15 Jul 2015
by Theogene Rudasingwa President Paul Kagame threw a mighty tantrum following the arrest in the UK of his spy chief, Gen. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake. But the exiled opposition party Rwanda National…
Benjamin Woods
Six Lessons #BlackLivesMatter Can Learn From Amilcar Cabral
08 Jul 2015
by Benjamin Woods The emergent Black Lives Matter mobilization is nearing the juncture where it will grow into a true mass movement for liberation, or take some other fork in the road.…
Mark P. Fancher
Dr. Che Guevara’s Prescription for Africa’s AFRICOM Headache
08 Jul 2015
by Mark P. Fancher With the United States military command in the lead, “western troops and advisors continue their forward march across African.” But continental liberation is still possible: it…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year.
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 6, 2015
07 Jul 2015
Shut Down the Prisons from the Inside Prison inmates with the Free Alabama Movement have been placed in solitary confinement for advocating a national prison work strike. “Their argument is that all…
David Hoile
Africa Must Leave the ICC
01 Jul 2015
by Dr. David Hoile The International Criminal Court is “an inept, corrupt, political court that does not have Africa’s welfare at heart, only the furtherance of Western, and especially European,…
Thomas C. Mountain
The UN vs Eritrea
01 Jul 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain The United Nations, under the imperial sway of the United States, continues its vicious sanctions against Eritrea, an African country on the Red Sea that seeks only to claim its…