Africa

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2020
22 Dec 2020
Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power Meets African Liberation
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Colonial Logics” Remained for Black Women in “Liberated” Zimbabwe
22 Dec 2020
Black women “posed a problem” for the Black government that replaced white rule in Zimbabwe, because their bodies were thought to “disturb urban space,” said Rudo Mudiwa, a PhD in
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power Meets African Liberation
22 Dec 2020
In the political hotbed that was Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1967, US Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael, who had not yet changed his name to Kwame Ture, made both friends and enemies among th
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Agenda 2021: Resist the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
16 Dec 2020
It is critical that the Black left understand U.S./European imperialism as a race project, and organize accordingly.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Planet’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
16 Dec 2020
As head of USAID, Power will be in perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire, writes Ann Garrison.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
16 Dec 2020
The streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Coronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression
10 Dec 2020
Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they don’t like.
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
10 Dec 2020
This week the role of US elites in controlling resistance by Ugandans and Black Americans were on your minds.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Hierarchies of Modern Western Colonialism
10 Dec 2020
Imperialists continue to exercise control of former colonies from the comfort of their metropolises as their former subjects appear resigned to their post-colonial fates.
Marjoleine Kars
Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
10 Dec 2020
Writing one’s own history is an act of emancipation. “Former slaves organized a government and controlled most of the colony.”