Africa

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: R.A. Judy’s Book, “Sentient Flesh”
09 Sep 2020
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
Ahjamu Umi
The Role of the Black Bourgeoisie in Coopting Our Movements
09 Sep 2020
The Black bourgeoisie, including the next generation of them after Obama, will continue to derail us with their empty promises of inclusion.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education
07 Sep 2020
Although famed educator Asa Hilliard died in 2007, his advocacy of “Africanized” teaching and thinking continues to gain adherents.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“The Man Who Heals Women” Calls for an International Criminal Tribunal for Congo
26 Aug 2020
The West lavishes praise on Dr. Denis Mukwege for healing victims of weaponized sexual violence but protects the perpetrators, writes Ann Garrison.
Zanga Chimombo
Open Defecation Zones and the Shaming of Africa 3.0
26 Aug 2020
“Voluntourists” in Africa are actually jihadists for the West who defecate all over the continent in every way that defecation is possible.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
19 Aug 2020
Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
Semassa Boko
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
19 Aug 2020
Our theorizing must take on the dynamic, fugitive, and excessive aesthetics of black practice and performance.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aliyah Khan’s “Far from Mecca”
19 Aug 2020
Islam should be understood as a religion of enslaved African Muslims and contemporary Black Muslims in the Americas—not simply as a religion of 20th and 21st century Arab, African, and As
Deutsche Welle
Burundi to Demand Colonial Reparations From Germany and Belgium
19 Aug 2020
The East African country is a former German colony and lived under Belgian rule until gaining independence almost 60 years ago.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Cuba Deserves Nobel Prize for Sharing Medicine With the World
18 Aug 2020
“Cuba should be a shoo-in” to win a Nobel Prize for sending doctors to health trouble spots and poor countries around the globe, said Don Fitz, a scholar and Green Party activ