Africa

Ronnie Kasrils , Marcus Barnett
Sabotaging Apartheid
08 Nov 2017
“We got into what I call a Faustian pact with big business from Mandela onwards.”
Mela Ghebremedhin
The Eritrea “Massacre” That Never Happened
08 Nov 2017
“The entire incident lasted several minutes, with no casualties or injuries.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Burundi Exits the ICC: an interview with David Paul Jacobs
01 Nov 2017
Last year the African Union resisted Western pressure to intervene militarily in Burundi.
Nicholas Grant
African Americans, Apartheid and the Cold War
01 Nov 2017
“Anticommunism provided a global language that could be used to silence anti-racist organizing.”
Devyn Springer
Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?
01 Nov 2017
“Few on the broader US left can name more than a handful of African revolutionaries.”
Vijay Prashad
The American War Machine Is Already on the Death March Across the African Continent
01 Nov 2017
“Fleets of white Toyota trucks arrived in the desert to carry refugees and drugs to Europe and to bring weapons into central and western Africa.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: AFRICOM is the Question
25 Oct 2017
“They use ludicrous terms like ‘gold star family’ and make the case for continued American aggression around the world.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Eminem's Freestyle and the Degeneration of US Society
25 Oct 2017
“Eminem loves the military. He also loves the Democrats. Neither of these positions amount to anti-establishment resistance.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Boniface Musavuli
ISIS of Central Africa: A New Cover for Plundering Congo
25 Oct 2017
“A jihad in the Congo makes no sense whatsoever.”
Gerald A. Perreira
Remembering Muammar Qaddafi and the Great Libyan Jamahiriya
25 Oct 2017
“The execution of Muammar Qaddafi and those that fought alongside him is one of the greatest crimes of this century.”