Africa

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adeline Masquelier’s “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger”
11 Dec 2019
Young men in Niger meet at fadas to figure out what to do with their lives under uncaring global capitalism.
Zanga Chimombo
Brown Privilege in Africa
04 Dec 2019
Inadequate attention seems to have been paid to the significance of racial miscegenation (or us “in-betweeners”) in the process of domination.
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
27 Nov 2019
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victoire Ingabire Walks a Knife Edge in Rwanda
20 Nov 2019
The mass murderer that the US helped put in power in Rwanda flew into a raging rant against the woman who symbolizes the hopes of that country’s majority.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
Afro-descendants of Our America
Final Declaration of the Afro-descendant International Congress Tribute to the Afro-Venezuelan Cimarron “Guillermo Ribas”
20 Nov 2019
Neoliberal globalization deepens exploitation, while imposing a cultural homogenization that does not know the history of peoples, their traditions and their identity.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda Exports 2,163 kg of Gold, UAE Imports 12,539 kg of It
13 Nov 2019
The final 2019 UN Group of Experts Report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo confirms that Congo’s eastern neighbor Rwanda remains a haven for smuggling Congolese minerals.
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Nov 2019
This week Black voters and the Democrats, the passing of John Conyers, and the alleged demise of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi were on your minds. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh’s “On Decoloniality”
13 Nov 2019
The dominant conceptions and ideals of Western civilization aim to violate, destroy, and eliminate all that obstructs and impedes its path.