Africa

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.…
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…