Africa

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
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Brigh
“Racial Capitalism” is the Kind We’ve Got
12 Aug 2020
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.
Zaynab Shahar
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
12 Aug 2020
Blackness is understood as always already criminal, and homonormative imagination is no different in this respect.
African People’s Socialist Party
Bourgeoisie Cash is flowing in the Coffers of Black Lives Matter
12 Aug 2020
We must at every instance solve the question of how to fund the revolution without becoming subservient or dependent on our oppressors.
BAP National Coordinating Committee
Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.”
05 Aug 2020
We owe it to our ancestors and our incarcerated comrades to escalate the struggle against the white settler state and its imperial capitalist order.
Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought
05 Aug 2020
Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 3, 2020
03 Aug 2020
“Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” Tells Why That City Sparked National Rebellion
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reparations Day” on August 15
03 Aug 2020
The December 12th Movement has called for nationwide demonstrations demanding Black reparations on August 15, which is the 18thanniversary of the 2002 “Millions for Reparations” rally in Washi