Africa

Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2016
19 Jan 2016
U.S. Demands Global Respect, But Disrespects Its Own Black Citizens President Obama’s polices, “both foreign and domestic, are the same as any leader of the Empire,” said South Carolina activist and…
Washington's Blog
Clinton Email Shows that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya
13 Jan 2016
Hillary Clinton’s “private” email correspondence with Middle East wheeler-dealer Sidney Blumenthal discusses France’s motives in pushing for a NATO attack on Libya, in 2011 – including Muammar Qadd
Navid Nasr
Nigeria Massacre: The Islamic Movement and Its Discontents
06 Jan 2016
by Navid Nasr On December 12, as many as 1,000 people were gunned down in the streets and in their homes in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria. They were Shia Muslims, defenders of the rights of…
Nigerian Military: “The Real Boko Haram”
16 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When the United States and Saudi Arabia partnered to spread global jihadist terror, they set the stage for massacres throughout Asia and…
Mark P. Fancher
Big Business, Big Guns and Big Lies in Africa
16 Dec 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Africa has been invaded and re-occupied, militarily and commercially. “Non-African superpowers are competing for and staking claims to Africa’s resources while Africans look on…
Nick Turse
AFRICOM: America's Empire of Military Bases in Africa
09 Dec 2015
AFRICOM: America's Empire of Military Bases in Africa by Nick Turse The Pentagon claims to have only a single US military base on the African continent. This is an outright lie. the…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Negroes Need Not Apply: The EU-Africa Malta Conference
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Desperate to stem the “blackening” of the white homeland, the European Union last month offered billions in bribes to African…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda Conscripts Burundian Refugees into New “Rebel Force”: An Interview with Jeff Drumtra
01 Dec 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan Tutsi dictator Paul Kagame came to power as a leader of a Uganda-based rebel army that invaded Rwanda, plunging the nation a into civil war that ended in the deaths of…
amandla mobi
South African TV Breaks Promise to Marikana Widows
01 Dec 2015
by amandla.mobi Three years ago, police massacred 34 striking miners at Marikana, South Africa – a watershed event in the growing resistance to the African National Congress government’s neoliberal…
Daniel Wedi Korbaria
I’ve Already Seen This Movie: Eritrea and the “War by Media”
18 Nov 2015
by Daniel Wedi Korbaria A U.S.-scripted drama demonizes Eritrea as a world-class “human rights” violator whose citizens are fleeing for their lives to Europe. The Europeans, on U.S. orders, create…