Africa

Kweli Nzito
A Tale of Three Apartheids and the Land Conundrums
21 Mar 2018
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to Charles Onana and Phil Taylor
14 Mar 2018
“She is risking her life to challenge the Kagame regime, and any challenge to our own government is up to us.”
Netfa Freeman
Zimbabwe Open for Business, Code for International Finance Capitalism
14 Mar 2018
“Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Panther Movie: A Black Face in a High Place
07 Mar 2018
“Questioners are ‘hoteps’ who are too woke to have fun.”
Paul Street
Good Panther, Bad Panther
28 Feb 2018
“Black revolutionary consciousness is merged with white and bourgeois Urban Nightmare
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Maurice Carney
Resource Sovereignty: Venezuela, Africa, and the Global South
28 Feb 2018
“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.”
LNPM
Libyan National Popular Movement Demands End to Interference by Foreign Forces and “Terrorists”
28 Feb 2018
“The National Popular Movement condemns the local, regional and international silence on the suffering of the inhabitants of Tawergha who had been unjustly and
Phakamile Hlubi-Majola
Cyril Ramaphosa Has No Agenda Except Neoliberal Policies, Says NUMSA’s Irvin Jim
28 Feb 2018
“The South African Communist Party (SACP) and present leadership COSATU are lying to people that Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver socialism.”
Patrick Bond
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Relaunches Neoliberalism
28 Feb 2018
“In spite of repeated rhetorical gestures from Pretoria to the contrary, the BRICS have amplified unfair and inequitable world order processes.”