Africa

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Get Me Outa Wakanda!
22 Feb 2018
#EnemyPropaganda I finally got around to seeing the Black Panther movie Tuesday. I’ve been black nearly seven decades.
Mark P. Fancher
AFRICOM - Staggering But Not Yet Down For The Count
21 Feb 2018
“The AFRICOM serpent has spent more than a decade slithering into almost every African country and establishing a venomous presence.”
Joe Penney
Drones in the Sahara
21 Feb 2018
“American, Italian, German, and French military forces are active in the country, and if any one of them makes a mistake, they can all become targets for retribution.”
Zwelinzima Vavi
Major South African Trade Union Federation Welcomes Resignation of Jacob Zuma
21 Feb 2018
“Zuma is a creation of the ANC, not the other way around.”
Patrick Bond
New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
07 Feb 2018
“’Sub-Saharan Africa loses roughly $100 billion of ANS annually because it is “the only region with periods of negative levels’ of gross national income.”
Sampie Terreblanche
The Co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’
01 Feb 2018
After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last month, it is vital to understand deep structural barriers that prevent South Africa’s achieveme
Horace G. Campbell
Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
30 Jan 2018
“Up to the very end he was critical of the way in which the top leadership of the African National Congress had capitulated before international capital.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 22, 2018
23 Jan 2018
NCOBRA's Kamm Howard on the stsatus and prospects for reparations legislation in the US House of Representatives now that John Conyers, the perennial sponsor of reparations legislation has retired.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Maurice Carney: The US Has Always Been the Wrong Side of History in Africa
23 Jan 2018
With AFRICOM and its "soldier-to-soldier" relationships having taken the place of US African diplomacy in the last decade the US is positioned to exercise hegemonic power over Africans in their own
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Is Anyone On the Side of the Congolese Now? Ann Garrison speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
10 Jan 2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the heart of Black Africa.