Africa

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA Strike Brings the Counterinsurgency War on Black Liberation Movement to Basketball
09 Sep 2020
When NBA players threatened to disrupt business as usual the ruling class deployed perhaps its most effective weapon of counterinsurgency: Barack Obama.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
09 Sep 2020
“Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests for many
Black is Back Coalition
Join the Black Peoples March on Trump’s White House -- Just Like We Did Obama’s
09 Sep 2020
The Black Power Matters March directs us to fight against colonialism, for Black Community Control of the Police, and for a Black Agenda for Self-Determination.
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.
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