Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reparations Supporters Need to Unite Around Specific Demands
30 Jun 2021
Efia Nwangaza, director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination in Greenville, South Carolina, is trying to unite the member organizations of the South Carolina Reparations Coalition behind
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Acting as “Rogue State” in Shutting Down Iranian News Site
30 Jun 2021
The US seizure of the Iranian news site Press TV shows that Washington “will continue to operate as a rogue state as long as it can get away with it,” said Ajamu Baraka, national o
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
23 Jun 2021
Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election, writes Ann Garrison.
Black Alliance For Peace
US Militarism Kills at Home and Abroad
23 Jun 2021
We regard militarism as the antithesis of revolutionary pan-African visions of Africa as a region freed from the destructive legacies of its patriarchal and colonial history.
Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
Why We’re Fed Up with Weak Excuses for Accepting Awards from the Empire
23 Jun 2021
How should we respond when people of color who've spent a lifetime cussing the empire start curtseying to it instead?
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: Murdering Women in Nigeria, Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, May 1930
16 Jun 2021
British colonial officials turned their guns on women in two Nigerian towns in the 1920s, to put down protests against “head” taxes and levies on market stalls, killing scores.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia: Tribalism versus National Consciousness
16 Jun 2021
Ethiopians struggle to forge a national consciousness that supersedes ethnic tribalism, while international human rights NGOs discuss their "responsibility to protect" them, writes Ann Garriso
Siyanda Mohutsiwa
NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership
16 Jun 2021
Ruth Maclean’s article, like countless others in Western media, took place in an Africa without leaders, without public health officials or activists.
Philip Weiss
Two Former Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa Join Tsunami of ‘Apartheid’ Accusations Against Israel
16 Jun 2021
By gradually driving occupied populations from their land and concentrating them into dense and fractured pockets, both South Africa and Israel thwart political autonomy and true democracy.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Corporate Think Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
09 Jun 2021
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.