Africa

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
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Lawless Judges and Prosecutors Block Mumia’s Road to Freedom
10 Dec 2019
Linn Washington, the Philadelphia-based legal scholar, told a New York City teach-in in support of Mumia Abu Jamal that the nation’s best known political prisoner would be free alr
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 9, 2019
10 Dec 2019
Black Alliance for Peace: It’s Good That NATO is in Disarray
Zanga Chimombo
Brown Privilege in Africa
04 Dec 2019
Inadequate attention seems to have been paid to the significance of racial miscegenation (or us “in-betweeners”) in the process of domination.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Gerald Horne: Africans See China as Counterweight to US and Europe
03 Dec 2019
In contrast to US hysteria over China’s growing role in world affairs, “in Africa itself, it’s felt that there needs to be a counterweight to the North Atlantic powers, and they feel that China hel
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
27 Nov 2019
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victoire Ingabire Walks a Knife Edge in Rwanda
20 Nov 2019
The mass murderer that the US helped put in power in Rwanda flew into a raging rant against the woman who symbolizes the hopes of that country’s majority.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.