Africa

Achille Mbembe
Blacks From Elsewhere and the Right of Abode
15 Jan 2020
Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become “a vast space of circulation.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
British Colonial Racism Comes to Roost
14 Jan 2020
Although Britain never experienced a civil rights movement on its own soil, such movements did take place “in its colonies...in anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles,” said Adam E
April Anson
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
08 Jan 2020
Author Gerald Horne demonstrates that modernity arrived in the 17th century on the three horsemen of the apocalypse: slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 6, 2020
06 Jan 2020
Rogue US Assassination Spurs International Solidarity
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Early African Captives Talked Back to European Enslavers
06 Jan 2020
Bucknell University Professor of Spanish Dr Nick Jones’ book on “Habla de Negros” -- “Black talk/speech” -- in early colonial Spain and Portugal shows that “through
Wayne Dooling
What an Audit of the British Empire's Deadly Toll in Southern Africa Would Reveal
18 Dec 2019
The colonial powers have never been called to account for the human cost of their centuries of global rampage.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Sudan Withdraws 10,000 Troops from Yemen
18 Dec 2019
The ongoing popular struggle in Sudan may have heightened the chances for peace in Yemen.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Should UN Peacekeepers Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
11 Dec 2019
There was no peace to keep in the Kivu and Ituri provinces when the UN force arrived nearly 20 years ago, and there’s been none since.
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Rastafarians Were Key to Black Freedom Movement
10 Dec 2019
The Jamaica-birthed Rastafarian movement played a key role in the emergence of a global movement for African liberation, said Daive Dunkley, professor of Black Studies at the