Africa

Archbishop Desmond Tutu – his spirit reflected a giant

This commentary, recorded by Prison Radio, aired on Democracy Now on Dec. 28. Archbishop Tutu visited Mumia Abu-Jamal in 2007,…

January 7, 2022

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a friend of Palestine

Our beloved global elder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, became an ancestor on December 26, passing peacefully amongst his family the day…

January 4, 2022

Ethiopia: U.S. sanctions create misery and division

Washington plans to impose sanctions on the central government in Ethiopia starting Jan. 1. The sanctions remove Ethiopia’s Special Trade…

December 16, 2021

People of the Sahel oppose imperialism

After two weeks of struggle — burning barricades, smashed windows and mirrors, Molotov cocktails, masses of people on the road,…

December 10, 2021

Popular struggle challenges Sudan ‘agreement’

By Carlos Lopes Pereira The author, a veteran of the liberation movement in Guinea and Cape Verde, is a regular…

December 2, 2021

On Ethiopia: ‘I’ve lost faith in everything “American”’

Ann Garrison is a Black Agenda Report contributing editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received…

December 1, 2021

Massive protests in Niger, Burkina Faso demand French military get out

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are former French colonies, where the struggle against France’s presence in the Sahel region of…

November 30, 2021

Shell-shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: ‘I don’t even want to hear the word “America” ’ 

By Ann Garrison Ann Garrison is a Black Agenda Report contributing editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In…

November 25, 2021

Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Thomas Sankara − unconquered

In April 2021 a military court in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, finally indicted Blaise Compaore in the murder of revolutionary Marxist-Leninist…

November 17, 2021

Mali’s people mobilize against imperialism

Although French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that his government is winding down its intervention in Mali, French imperialism is…

November 16, 2021