Africa

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
16 Dec 2020
The streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Coronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression
10 Dec 2020
Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they don’t like.
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
10 Dec 2020
This week the role of US elites in controlling resistance by Ugandans and Black Americans were on your minds.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Hierarchies of Modern Western Colonialism
10 Dec 2020
Imperialists continue to exercise control of former colonies from the comfort of their metropolises as their former subjects appear resigned to their post-colonial fates.
Marjoleine Kars
Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
10 Dec 2020
Writing one’s own history is an act of emancipation. “Former slaves organized a government and controlled most of the colony.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century
02 Dec 2020
In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
Judi Rever and Benedict Moran
Top-Secret Testimonies Implicate Rwanda’s President in War Crimes
02 Dec 2020
Previously suppressed evidence shows that dictator Paul Kagame’s forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Hutus – the other side of the Rwandan genocide.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Uganda’s Youth Majority Brave Police Blockades and Bullets to Rally Behind Bobi Wine
25 Nov 2020
US elites may see the writing on the wall in Uganda, where the youth majority population are braving police blockades and bullets to rally behind Bobi Wine.
Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion
Ethiopia: The TPLF’s Precipitous Fall
25 Nov 2020
The TPLF was a “darling” of the West, especially the US and UK.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Black Misleaders Back Susan Rice as Top Diplomat
19 Nov 2020
Genocide in Congo and militarization of the African continent are Susan Rice’s specialties, but Black Democrats see her as a “role model.”