Africa

Vijay Prashad
The American War Machine Is Already on the Death March Across the African Continent
01 Nov 2017
“Fleets of white Toyota trucks arrived in the desert to carry refugees and drugs to Europe and to bring weapons into central and western Africa.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: AFRICOM is the Question
25 Oct 2017
“They use ludicrous terms like ‘gold star family’ and make the case for continued American aggression around the world.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Eminem's Freestyle and the Degeneration of US Society
25 Oct 2017
“Eminem loves the military. He also loves the Democrats. Neither of these positions amount to anti-establishment resistance.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Boniface Musavuli
ISIS of Central Africa: A New Cover for Plundering Congo
25 Oct 2017
“A jihad in the Congo makes no sense whatsoever.”
Gerald A. Perreira
Remembering Muammar Qaddafi and the Great Libyan Jamahiriya
25 Oct 2017
“The execution of Muammar Qaddafi and those that fought alongside him is one of the greatest crimes of this century.”
Eddie Haywood
Why is the US at war in West Africa?
25 Oct 2017
“The expanding levels of US military forces arrayed across the continent have increasingly taken on the character of an occupying army.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ingabire Day: We Are All Victoire and Victoire Is All of Us
18 Oct 2017
“Ingabire wants the surviving Hutu refugees to be able to return home safely to join a real reconciliation process in Rwanda.”
Monique Bedasse
On the Move: Rastafari, Tanzania, and the Lessons of Pan-African Action
18 Oct 2017
“Tanzania’s government and Rastafari asserted a different way of ordering the world through the repatriation: pan-Africanism.”
Mark P. Fancher
U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
18 Oct 2017
“The Trump administration is talking about a potential imminent U.S. military action to hit back.”
Jason Burke
Secret Trials of Thousands of Boko Haram Suspects to Start in Nigeria
18 Oct 2017
“Many of the detainees had been held in custody for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.”