Africa

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Eritrea
04 May 2022
BAR contributor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is now in Eritrea.
Djibo Sobukwe
West African “Coup Contagion” Analysis
03 May 2022
The people of Africa's Sahel region want truly sovereign governements that act in their interests. But U.S. interference, the continued influence of France and other colonizers, and neo-colonial…
New Frame
Marking Workers’ Day in Dispiriting Times
03 May 2022
Previously in South Africa, millions of people were mobilised in the hope of a better future on May Day. Now, amid mass unemployment and the collapse of an emancipatory vision, that optimism is…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: “The architects of this murder are many:” Kwame Nkrumah on the killing of Patrice Lumumba, 1961
27 Apr 2022
Kwame Nkrumah’s 1961 speech on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba exposes the the international white supremacist cabal responsible for his death, and for the crisis of the Congo.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front
27 Apr 2022
BAR contributor Ann Garrison reports on conditions in Ethiopia.
Owen Schalk
Canada and the Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
27 Apr 2022
April 27, 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumah's death. He was ousted from the Ghanaian presidency by Canadian trained elements of his own military who were also supported by the CIA.…
New Frame
Devastation in Durban
26 Apr 2022
The floods that have wreaked havoc in the shacklands of Durban, South Africa are another searing indictment of the social abandonment of the majority by a predatory political elite.
John Philpot
Presentation of the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize by the International Women’s Network for Democracy and Peace to Mr. John Philpot
26 Apr 2022
Canadian attorney John Philpot received the Victoroire Ingabire Umuhoza Prize for Democracy and Peace on March 19, 2022. The prize is given in recognition of the Rwandan former political…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part II
20 Apr 2022
BAR contributing editor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Africa in the Post-War World, San Francisco, April 1945
20 Apr 2022
When a new international order came into being with the organization of the United Nations in 1945, African people proposed their own visions for the post war world.