Africa

Thomas C. Mountain
US vs China in Djibouti
12 Aug 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain China will soon station 10,000 troops in Djibouti, on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, alongside U.S., French and Japanese bases. When they wake up to the new reality,…
Alemayehu G Mariam
Barack Obama, Tell the Truth About Ethiopia!
12 Aug 2015
Alemayehu G. Mariam Last month, President Obama declared that Ethiopia has a “democratically elected government.” That is the country where, in May elections, the ruling party won all the 547 seats…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Africa Hypocrisy
29 Jul 2015
By BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The president's visit to East Africa has been the occasion for the same kind of hypocritical finger pointing Barack Obama usually reserves for…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda's US-Backed Pit-Bull Regime Promotes Instability Through Violence in Burundi
29 Jul 2015
by Ann Garrison
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
Black Unionists Try to Save South Africa from Becoming a Failed State
22 Jul 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist “What the South African people fought for is not what they have received… it’s time that we continue the struggle for liberation,” said labor…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Fight For A Socialist South Africa
15 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford South Africa’s most militant labor leaders are pressing forward with plans to build a real socialist party to challenge the ANC government’s capitulation to global…
Theogene Rudasingwa
UK Government Was Right in Arresting Rwandan Spy Chief
15 Jul 2015
by Theogene Rudasingwa President Paul Kagame threw a mighty tantrum following the arrest in the UK of his spy chief, Gen. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake. But the exiled opposition party Rwanda National…
Benjamin Woods
Six Lessons #BlackLivesMatter Can Learn From Amilcar Cabral
08 Jul 2015
by Benjamin Woods The emergent Black Lives Matter mobilization is nearing the juncture where it will grow into a true mass movement for liberation, or take some other fork in the road.…
Mark P. Fancher
Dr. Che Guevara’s Prescription for Africa’s AFRICOM Headache
08 Jul 2015
by Mark P. Fancher With the United States military command in the lead, “western troops and advisors continue their forward march across African.” But continental liberation is still possible: it…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year.