Africa

L.H. Stallings
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’s“A Dirty South Manifesto”
17 Mar 2021
Regulation of sexuality in the United States has been predominantly shaped by and largely dependent upon safeguarding or interpreting the First Amendment.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alison M. Parker’s Book, “Unceasing Militant”
17 Mar 2021
The author explores Mary Church Terrell’s long history of activism, to remind us that movements for social justice do not happen overnight.
Abdirahman A. Abdalla
The Somali Election Impasse in Historical Context
17 Mar 2021
Somalia’s current corruptionist comprador bourgeoisie has no independent socio-political base and is therefore totally beholden to Western imperialist interests.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 15, 2021
15 Mar 2021
Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Europe and US Now Policing Black Migrants in Africa
15 Mar 2021
To justify US and European military occupation of much of Africa, migrants seeking jobs in the north of the continent or in Europe “are labeled as criminals and terrorists” when they are “just look
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
10 Mar 2021
Victoire risked her life to establish that Hutu people were also killed by the Tutsi army, before, during, and after the Rwanda genocide, writes Ann Garrison.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, April 18, 2010
10 Mar 2021
The manifesto claimed the LGBTI struggle as an indelible and urgent part of the history of Pan-Africanism and the ongoing movements for Black sovereignty.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Meet me at Mary’s Place…
10 Mar 2021
“…he said if you can enjoy A real nice affair (Over at Mary's place—oh) Then you'll make it Your business to be right there… (Over at Mary's place— oh)” —Sam Cooke
Netfa Freeman and Jemima Pierre
Movements Not Saviors: Lessons from Bobi Wine’s Tweet for Juan Guaido
10 Mar 2021
Bobi Wine’s flirtation with US Venezuelan puppet Juan Guaido indicates that the Ugandan is also auditioning for the imperial puppet job.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amy Cooper’s “State of Health”
10 Mar 2021
Unlike the US and other corporate-ruled countries, activists inside and outside of government collaborated to bring about radical social change in Venezuela.