Africa

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Black Lives Extinguished, Black Ancestors’ Bodies Desecrated
03 Jun 2020
We are killed in the streets while we are alive and then our bodies are dug up and thrown away like trash when businesses require the land for profit making.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda: “Victoire Ingabire Should Be Arrested at Least, Killed at Best”
27 May 2020
The life of the woman who leads Rwanda’s most prominent opposition to Paul Kagame’s dictatorship is being publicly threatened in the wake of the killing of many of her supporters.
Black Alliance For Peace
On African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Shut Down AFRICOM
27 May 2020
The US Military Command in Africa allows Washington and its European allies to dominate the continent and its resources.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt”
27 May 2020
The Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-1761 was one war within an interlinked network of other wars.
The Public Archive
Haiti’s Revolutions and Revisions: An Interview with Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
27 May 2020
Toussaint stressed that freedom was something that had to be fought for and taken from below by the masses themselves.
Tunde Osazua and Netfa Freeman
First Somali Congressperson Legitimizes AFRICOM and US Drone War
13 May 2020
Rep. Omar recently commended the US war machine for increasing the “transparency” and “accountability” of its bombing of her native country.
Marisa Fuentes
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
06 May 2020
This is a book about the ideological construction of black women as “non-human” and exploitable for capitalist profit in the making of the New South.
Milton G. Allimadi
Tribute to My Beloved Sister Barbara Allimadi – Fighter for Justice in Uganda
06 May 2020
We owe it to Barbara to march those extra miles and create a new Uganda. “She was arrested multiple times for leading protests against the regime.”
Peter Young
Overcrowded DRC Prisons 'Ticking Time-Bomb' for COVID-19 Pandemic
06 May 2020
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main prisons are filled at 432 percent on average, making them some of the most overcrowded in the world.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China
29 Apr 2020
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking aim at China to deflect attention away from the American nightmare.