Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire
  • omnibus

Colonialism, Imperialism, and Conflict in the Congo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
23 Feb 2024
🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · The History of Exploitation and Conflict in the Congo

Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire, an international electronic press service. He joins us from Detroit to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

DRC
Rwanda
imperialism
Congo

Related Podcasts

Kenya protest sign
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"The Kenyan President is a Colonizer"
08 August 2025
Marcela Onyango is a Luo stand-up comedian and writer based in Brooklyn and Washington
Immigration flight graphic
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Trump Africa Policy: Imperialism, Resource Extraction, and Deportations
25 July 2025
Our guest is Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan African Newswire.
Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025
27 June 2025
In this week’s segment we hear about a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.

More Stories


  • Jon Jeter
    Stagflation Returns, Shining a Spotlight on the Federal Reserve’s War on the Working Class
    06 Aug 2025
    History exposes the Fed's inflation fight for what it truly is: a decades-long class war waged against working people under the guise of monetary policy.
  • Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    There is no starvation
    06 Aug 2025
    "There is no starvation" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
  • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
    The Green Zone of Controlled Opposition (Or, How The U.S. Climate Network Became Agents of Climate Inaction)
    06 Aug 2025
    The U.S. climate movement claims to fight for change while systematically silencing radical action. This isn’t resistance. It’s controlled opposition dressed in green.
  • Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Karen Antoinette Scott’s Book, SACKRED Birth
    06 Aug 2025
    In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Karen Antoinette Scott.
  • Black Alliance For Peace
    BAP Condemns the Zionist Brutalization and Detainment of Chris Smalls, Emblematic of the White Supremacy at the Core of Zionism
    06 Aug 2025
    The arrest and assault of Chris Smalls is about more than the repression of any effort to subvert the genocidal blockade on Gaza; it exposes Israel’s attempt to sever Black and Palestinian solidarity…
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us