Africa

Ashlie Sandoval
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
19 Feb 2020
An educator helps students navigate books that reveal Blackness as historicity, slavery as both obscured and ever-present, and the violence of race.
Global Information Network
Nigeria Jailing Journalists
19 Feb 2020
Stories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death.
Roxana Baspineiro
Libya: Before and After Muammar Gaddafi
05 Feb 2020
Nine years after his death, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital have grown to miss the longtime leader as the frustrations of daily life mount.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s “Reimagining Liberation”
15 Jan 2020
When fascism was on the march Black women intellectuals and activists imagined, and struggled for, a new world.
Djibo Sobukwe
Ahmed Sékou Touré’s Unique and Dynamic Contribution to the Philosophy of Class Struggle
15 Jan 2020
The ideology of Touréism combines aspects of Marxist – Leninist methodology with traditional African values.
Achille Mbembe
Blacks From Elsewhere and the Right of Abode
15 Jan 2020
Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become “a vast space of circulation.”
April Anson
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
08 Jan 2020
Author Gerald Horne demonstrates that modernity arrived in the 17th century on the three horsemen of the apocalypse: slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism.
Wayne Dooling
What an Audit of the British Empire's Deadly Toll in Southern Africa Would Reveal
18 Dec 2019
The colonial powers have never been called to account for the human cost of their centuries of global rampage.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Sudan Withdraws 10,000 Troops from Yemen
18 Dec 2019
The ongoing popular struggle in Sudan may have heightened the chances for peace in Yemen.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Should UN Peacekeepers Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
11 Dec 2019
There was no peace to keep in the Kivu and Ituri provinces when the UN force arrived nearly 20 years ago, and there’s been none since.