Africa

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
15 Apr 2020
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump.
Belen Fernandez
Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19
15 Apr 2020
Media outlets have exploited the current pandemic to disseminate rank anti-Cuban propaganda.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 in DRC: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst
08 Apr 2020
Deaths caused by the pandemic are likely to occur without assistance of any kind, without any administrative record, and without acknowledgment in the news cycle.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Xavier Livermon’s “Kwaito Bodies”
08 Apr 2020
The author examines how Black youth in post-apartheid South Africa imagine freedom under tremendous systems of constraint.
Global Information Network
South African Police Unleash Water Cannons and Rubber Bullets During Virus Lockdown
01 Apr 2020
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.
Black Alliance For Peace
Coronavirus, Militarism and the End of an Illusion
25 Mar 2020
People are waking people up to the fact that the US state and government does not belong to them but to a capitalist class that is only looking out for itself.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020
24 Mar 2020
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Mark P. Fancher
Calm Down About Coronavirus and Follow Africa’s Lead
18 Mar 2020
Europe – not Africa – is the current epicenter of the disease.