Africa

Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopia, the Day After: The Firestorm
18 Oct 2017
“The people of Ethiopia are showing their defiant resistance.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ugandans Resist Land Grabbing and US-backed Dictatorship: an Interview with Phil Wilmot
11 Oct 2017
“One man essentially wants to exploit all the wealth of the country for himself.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ugandans Resist Museveni’s Bid for Life Presidency
04 Oct 2017
“Shouts and screams filled the chambers.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
US-backed Dictator Paul Kagame Risks Another Violent Implosion by Tightening his Grip on Rwanda
27 Sep 2017
“Kagame claims to be a champion of gender equality but the only two women who have ever tried to stand against him electorally are behind bars.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The Pentagon’s Human Rights Auxiliary Targets Burundi
20 Sep 2017
“The US and allies are trying to beat the October deadline when Burundi will have made its way out from under the court's imperial jurisdiction.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Bill Clinton’s favorite African, Paul Kagame, Wins Re-election by 99%, Arrests Opponent
06 Sep 2017
“Kagame persecuted and silenced the only two women who dared stand up to him, and he didn’t stop a genocide; he started one.”
Yash Tandon
Reflections on South Africa: Whose Capital, Whose State?
06 Sep 2017
The polity, the state and the economy of South Africa are the captives of global empire. Two decades after the fall of apartheid, it's a new day.
Theogene Rudasingwa
Rwanda: Kagame “Elected” Dictator-for-Life
23 Aug 2017
Rwanda: Kagame “Elected” Dictator-for-Life by Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Congo Genocide, 5.4 Million Dead: An Interview with Sylvestre Mido
09 Aug 2017
It's Congo Genocide Week, the anniversary of the 1998 invasion of the Congo by the US puppet armies of Rwanda and Uganda. Since then 5.4 million Congolese have perished.
Henning Melber
An Anatomy of the Black South African “Middle Class”
08 Aug 2017
by Henning Melber