ESSAY: National identity and Foreign Domination, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1982

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o reminds us that the primary contradiction in Africa is imperialism and its meek comprador bourgeoisie enforcers.

D.R. Congo’s Challenges: Elections, Rwanda’s War of Aggression and Critical Minerals for Green Transition

The ongoing crisis is a result of converging forces determined to pursue their own interests by controlling the affairs within the Congo and subjecting the masses to inhumane conditions.

MESSAGE: The Palestine National Liberation Movement AL-FATEH to Africa

Al-Fateh’s communique at the 1969 Festival of Pan-African Culture offered a brilliant analysis of the overlapping histories of European colonialism and white supremacy in Africa and Palestine.

Deadly Diseases Stalk Millions in War-Torn Sudan

Rawia Kamal, a health activist displaced after the paramilitary attacked her home, recounts the travails of being in war-torn Sudan with looming threat of diseases

How Gentrification is Forcing Ghanaians Out of Accra

Rampant development and soaring property prices are causing families to pack up and leave the city.

AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #48

The Black Alliance for Peace U.S. Out of Africa Network provides an update of events taking place on the African continent.

Eritrea's Defiance and Independence Remain Its Supreme Crime

Eritrea has been the target of intense media disinformation that is orchestrated by the US and its allies.

ESSAY: West Africa in Evolution, Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1961

Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first President of Senegal, loved France. His gradualist approach to independence for Africans set the stage for the neocolonial present. But Senghor’s grandchildren have finally rejected that approach - and France. 

High Court Blocks Deployment Of Kenyan Police To Haiti

The Kenyan government has been temporarily blocked from sending a police force to occupy Haiti, a U.S. instigated plot to undermine the sovereignty of that nation. 

Eritrea's Defiance and Independence Remain Its Supreme Crime

Eritrea has been the target of a media campaign orchestrated by the US and its allies who act in collusion with corporate media. These narratives demonize Eritrea and seek to weaken this country which fights to remain free of U.S. influence.

Deploying Kenyan Police in Haiti is Unconstitutional

Kenyan police arrest a protester during anti-austerity demonstrations in July 2023. (Photo: Samson Otieno, AP)

Kenya's decision to join a US led occupation of Haiti is an example...

Libya’s disastrous flooding…Causes and hope?

The U.S./NATO destruction of the Libyan state in 2011 was followed unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which rendered that nation unable to…

Nigerian Trade Unions Stage Two-day Strike Amid Economic Crisis

Nigerian workers went on a two-day strike as the U.S. pressured their government to interfere in neighboring Niger. The people are fighting back…

Regionally Integrating the Horn of Africa and the Nile Basin

BAR Contributing Editor Ann Garrison spoke with Amanuel Biedemariam, author of The History of the USA in Eritrea, about regional integration…

Haiti Under Attack from Imperialism in Black Face

Austin Cole is a graduate student in City Planning and Business Administration, and the Political Action Co-Chair of the Black Graduate Student Association at MIT. He is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace, and co-coordinator of...

Why Is the U.S. Now Favoring Accelerating the Formation of a Force to Intervene in Haiti?

Originally published in Haïti Liberté .

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was necessary to send a "multinational force" to Haiti, precisely one day before the UN Security Council session and...

Haiti Needs Freedom, Not Tears

Is it enough to meet the Haitian people, to affirm a political solidarity far, far removed from compassion and morality, to forget the obligation to live the luminous beauty of their suspended lives in the rendered-ugly streets of...

Anti-Imperialist Sentiment Spreads Across West Africa Amid Threats Against Niger

Nigerian Senate rebukes president’s effort to invade a neighboring state at the aegis of Paris and Washington

Geopolitical Analysis

Niger has remained defiant in the face of repeated threats by French and United States...

Ivory Coast's Role in ECOWAS and the Impact of Its Destabilization of Niger

The author explains why the Ivory Coast has joined the U.S. plan to take part in a possible ECOWAS invasion of Niger. There is a long history of antagonism between the two states and Ivory Coast is now a reliable partner of the U.S. and...

All Africans Should Condemn the Call for an ECOWAS-led Military Invasion of Niger

U.S. and African puppet regime threats against Niger and all African states must be condemned.

Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace .

The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the U.S....

In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Imperialist Servitude Over Pan-African Solidarity

Kenya has chosen it side. That nation has agreed to give cover for the next occupation of Haiti by providing a black face to for imperialism.

Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace .

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Musings from the Margins #2: From Atlanta and Haiti, to Niger, the Western War Against Africans and Collective Humanity Intensifies

The war against Africans intensifies, the puppets and stooges do as they are ordered, while others are satisfied with empty gestures. But the revolutionary path is unchanged, as Ajamu Baraka explains in his observations of the current...

ESSAY: Why Africa Must Unite, Kwame Nkrumah, 1963

More than sixty years ago, Nkrumah told us why it was important that Africa unite. Today, his message and roadmap for Pan-African unity is needed more than ever.

For some, the idea of Pan-Africanism is a caricature or cliche: at best,...

Eritrea Celebrates Freedom

Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history.

I was honored to speak at the 49th annual National Council of Eritrean Americans conference and festival...

Thousands Rally in Support of Niger’s Coup Leaders as Western-Backed ECOWAS Threatens Military Intervention

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened military intervention if deposed Niger President Mohamed Bazoum is not restored in a week. Bazoum was overthrown in a coup by officers who have received support from...