On October 21, 2016, a train derailed in Cameroon killing at least 79 and injuring over 500 people. Heavy rain had washed out the road between Douala and Yaounde. Extra cars had been added to the train, but it was still over crowded. In the immediate aftermath, there...
In another sign that the Western media’s acknowledgement of Africa never exceeds the occasional glance and more-or-less always comports with the “dark continent” image of slums, savages and death, the unjustifiable massacre of 12 civilians at Charlie Hebdo became the...
#BringBackOurGirls has gone massively viral in the social media world, as people around the globe clamor for action to save hundreds of school-age girls abducted from their school in Nigeria. The girls were abducted by the group Boko Haram, a self-described Muslim...
Nelson Mandela, longtime leader of the African National Congress, and first Black president of South Africa, died quietly in his home December 5, after a long battle with illness. Mandela became the world’s best-known political prisoner in the 1980s, and following his...
Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, but forget the crocodile tears from the U.S. government about Mandela's poor health. Imperialist diplomacy with all of its sugar-coated phrases is nothing more than a form of historical perjury. Nelson Mandela’s arrest in 1962,...
“Without Africa, there will be no history of France in the 21st century.”—Former French President Francois Mitterand Recent events in the African nation of Mali mark a turning point in a secessionist crisis in the North that threatens to destabilize the entire...
A CIA timetable and a report by the Wall Street Journal, both released on Nov. 1, have revealed the extent to which the CIA was involved in responding to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the agency’s massive presence in the country. The attack...
Editor's note: This article was originally published on Liberation News. Introduction The leaders of 14 capitalist powers in Europe plus the United States met for a conference in Berlin 126 years ago to decide how all of Africa’s land and vast resources would be...
For 500 years, Portuguese colonialism was built upon the slave trade and the systematic pillaging of its African colonies: Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe, Angola and Cape Verde. Marxist historian Walter Rodney summarized Portuguese’s colonial rule in...