Africa

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…
Issa Shivji
Whither Africa in the Global South?: Lessons of Bandung and Pan-Africanism
11 Nov 2015
by Issa Shivji Africa’s comprador ruling classes and educated middle class are so compromised by imperialism that they are incapable of providing the revolutionary leadership required for the…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Will the West Create Its Next Failed State in Burundi?
11 Nov 2015
by Ann Garrison In the current era, states do not “fail” – they are targeted and destroyed. The tiny central African nation of Burundi appears to be next on the West’s list. U.S. ambassador to the…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
War, Repression and International Gangsterism: U.S. State Policy from Benghazi to Baltimore
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka When it comes to maintaining U.S. imperial power and the rule of the rich, impunity is absolute. The congressional Benghazi hearings exposed not a single…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Miners Shot Down! The Marikana Massacre Represents the Beginning of the End of the ANC – Part II
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The bloodbath at Marikana was a watershed for post-apartheid South Africa. The compact between Big Capital and the ruling African National…
Cynthia McKinney
Clinton and the Benghazi Committee: Dancing on a Tightrope
04 Nov 2015
by Cynthia McKinney Hillary Clinton, who takes credit for the invasion and regime change in Libya, claims to be blameless for the war’s consequences, including the spread of Islamic jihad in the…
Thomas C. Mountain
Benghazi Smokescreen: Hiding Western War Crimes in Libya
04 Nov 2015
Republicans and Democrats at the Benghazi hearings collaborated to disguise what the U.S. was really up to in Libya: regime change and the empowerment of Islamic jihadists in north Africa.
Veli Mbele
Free Education: The Right to Call Our Souls Our Own
04 Nov 2015
by Veli Mbele The South African student struggle is about much more than high fees and limited Black representation at universities. “Black students are fighting against a system whose foundation is…