Africa

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Reader
26 Dec 2018
We have another round of strong feedback engaging with and challenging our pieces this week.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of December 24, 2018
25 Dec 2018
Anthony Monteiro on the twilight of US empire; Black Alliance For Peace: Trump Should Withdraw From Syria, and African too; Carrie Bramen on the myth of “American Niceness.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
BAP Welcomes Trump Exit from Syria
24 Dec 2018
The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “ille
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China
20 Dec 2018
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Bolton Speech on Africa: A Case of the Wolf and the Foxes
19 Dec 2018
The Trump administration claims China and Russia are exploiting Africa, but US policy offers nothing but more guns, more bases and more subversion.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’s “Beyond the Pink Tide“and Harsha Walia’s “Undoing Border Imperialism”
12 Dec 2018
Our authors explore “how to live decolonial thought-action” and imagine a world without borders.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!
05 Dec 2018
The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation.
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 2)
05 Dec 2018
Cuban doctors and soldiers served secretly in revolutionary Africa in the 1960s, pursuing Che’s strategy of “Two, Three, Many Vietnams.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling.
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 1)
27 Nov 2018
Revolutionary Cuba decided in the Sixties “that the best defense for the island would be an international offense” -- in Africa.