Africa

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
US and UK Fund Kagame’s Killing Fields: An Interview with David Himbara
02 Aug 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame will stage sham elections, this week, to keep himself in power for another term. He has already arranged to stay in office until 2034, if…
Joe Lauria
Hiding US Lies About Libyan Invasion
25 Jul 2017
The author seemed surprised that the U.S. corporate media ignored a story “that undermined the U.S. government’s entire rationale for its unjustified attack” on Libya, in 2011.
Yash Tandon
G20: The Second Berlin War Against Africa
25 Jul 2017
by Yash Tandon With German bankers in the lead, the West is waging economic war against Africa, as was evident at the latest G20 meeting. “The conference’s real effect is to deepen Europe’s…
Precious Minerals + Rogue President = Mass Death in Congo
18 Jul 2017
Two million people have been displaced from their homes by violence in the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 80 mass graves have recently been discovered. Not coincidentally…
Zwelinzima Vavi
South African Communist Party is “Pro-Capitalist and Anti-Socialist”
18 Jul 2017
by Zwelinzima Vavi The newly-formed South African Federation of Trade Unions rejected an invitation to attend a congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP), which is a stalwart ally of the…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Israel and Rwanda, Partners in Persecution
12 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison The world’s greatest human rights abusers have seats on the UN Human Rights Council, including Rwanda which, along with Israel, claims “genocide” privileges to trash…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 10, 2017
11 Jul 2017
U.S. War Crimes Against “Muslims of Color” The illegal U.S. presence in Syria is a “Nuremburg crime against peace,” said Dr. Francis Boyle, the renowned professor of international law at the…
Motsoko Pheko
Why Africans Have No Land in South Africa
11 Jul 2017
by Motsoko Pheko If South Africa is an independent, decolonized, democratic country under the control of its Black majority, then why is 93% of the land still owned by whites? The author maintains…
Herstory: The Soweto Uprising and the Erasure of Black Women
27 Jun 2017
by Thando Sipuye There are many distortions in the dominant narratives around the 1976 students’ uprising. One of the most critical of these is the persistent, subtle projection of that uprising as…
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopia: Collective Punishment by Internet Clampdown
19 Jun 2017
by Alemayehu G. Mariam Shutting down and criminalizing use of the internet has become a weapon in the government’s cyber warfare strategy against the Ethiopian people, particularly the youth. The…