Africa

Dale T. McKinley
It’s All About Power and Money: The Present State of the ANC
13 Oct 2015
by Dale T. McKinley The African National Congress has morphed from its earlier transition days as a “modern” bourgeois political party designed to consolidate a class-based system of power overlaid…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Sankarist Spirit Resurges in Burkina Faso
07 Oct 2015
by Ann Garrison In 1983, a military clique in Burkina Faso assassinated the anti-imperialist head of state Thomas Sankara, plunging the nation back into the clutches of U.S. and French neocolonialism…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: Where Muslims and Christians Live in Peace
23 Sep 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Western media claim that religious hatreds have wracked the Middle East and Africa from time immemorial. But lethal fractures are not intrinsic to these societies, nor are they…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Scholar Says Rwandan Massacres Were Class War; Faces Deportation
16 Sep 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame sends hit squads around the globe to eliminate critics of his minority-based government. The regime is seeking to silence dissident Léopold Munyakazi…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Scholar Says Rwandan Massacres Were Class War; Faces Deportation
16 Sep 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame sends hit squads around the globe to eliminate critics of his minority-based government. The regime is seeking to silence dissident Léopold Munyakazi…
Patrick Bond
South Africa’s Deal with the Devil, Revisited: Mandela’s ‘Faustian Pact’ with World Capital
16 Sep 2015
by Patrick Bond An intelligence document has surfaced claiming that the white establishment through the private sector has a huge influence in the running of the South African National Treasury and…
Former Leader of Chad and CIA Tool Denounces U.S. Imperialism at His Trial
09 Sep 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford It is said that the Americans have no permanent friends, only permanent interests. Actually, the U.S. seems to have no friends at all,…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
South Sudan Conflict Won't End Until Oil Wealth Benefits South Sudanese: An Interview with Horace Campbell
01 Sep 2015
by Ann Garrison Scholar Horace Campbell warns that unaccountable leaders and foreign interests cannot bring justice to the people of war-torn South Sudan. The United States bear heavy responsibility…
A Rare Conviction of Killer Cops in South Africa
26 Aug 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The conviction of eight Black South African policemen in the grizzly murder of a Black cab driver represents a break from the culture of…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Africa’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
12 Aug 2015
by Ann Garrison Barack Obama will likely be remembered by history as the president that honed “humanitarian” intervention into a favored weapon of regime change. Samantha Power is the trigger. The U.…