Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Conge President Invites US Help to Fight Non-Existent ISIS Threat
06 May 2019
Felix Tshisekedi, the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, requested US help in dealing with an alleged threat from ISIS, although only two percent of the country’s population is Musl
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Bénédicte Boisseron’s “Afro-Dog”
01 May 2019
Racialization in this country often goes through a disguised process of animalization.
Vincent Lloyd
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 1)
01 May 2019
The challenge for Black Study is to hold up examples of blackness that evade capture by the thought and institutions of the West.
Nick Turse and Sean D. Naylor
Revealed: The U.S. Military's 36 Code-Named Operations in Africa
01 May 2019
Between 2013 and 2017, U.S. special operations forces saw combat in at least 13 African countries.
Whitney Webb
Saudi Arabia, Israel, US All Sought Bashir’s Ouster: So How Real Was the Sudan Revolution?
24 Apr 2019
This month's events in Sudan appear to be yet another example of foreign governments manipulating real dissent against an authoritarian government in order to install yet another authoritarian gove
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
ISIS Attacks in DR Congo: A New Phase of a Western Scheme for Resource Plunder
24 Apr 2019
The new president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is asking for US help to fend off an alleged ISIS threat.
The Political Theology Network
Political Theology Network Seeks Radical Anti-Imperial Perspectives on Religion and Politics
24 Apr 2019
The upcoming conference aims to bring together scholars, activists, and artists motivated by a concern for justice.
T.P. Wilkinson
The Expense of the American Dream
24 Apr 2019
Professor Gerald Horne shows that the Dark Continent was Europe, not Africa.
Horace G. Campbell
Global NATO: A 70-Year Alliance of Oppressors in Crisis
17 Apr 2019
NATO is the main prop for global capital’s predations, and must be opposed by all who seek peace and social justice.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Another African Convicted in Another Racist, Chauvinist Western Court
10 Apr 2019
Western propaganda about the Rwandan Genocide has been so triumphant that a Rwandan Hutu on trial in the West faces inevitable jury bias.