by Mohammed Elnaiem 

By Udo C. Enwereuzor

Since 2014, Libya has been governed by two parallel governments – the Libyan House of Representatives based in Tobruk and supported by Gen. Haftar’s LNA and, the U.N.-backed, Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli.

by David A. Love

The Indonesian province of West Papua is, in reality, a colony, an occupied land whose indigenous people are regarded as monkeys because they are Black. This hidden colony, its land and people exploited, has been the victim of racial oppression and a slow-motion genocide that has claimed half a million lives over the course of five decades. The Melanesian people of West Papua continue to die, and their struggle for independence continues. 

by Baba Aye

By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

In November 2018, I published my first novel, a murder mystery entitled The Man Who Fell From the Sky. In the years that led up to its publication, I would frequently encounter some interesting responses from friends on the Left when I mentioned that I was writing a novel. As I regularly note, the responses fell into three general categories:

When elected president of Venezuela in 1999, one of Hugo Chavez’s first major undertakings was to rewrite the country’s constitution as a mass-democratic process. Despite the optimistic and revolutionary re-visioning of the constitution, certain silences remain particularly glaring. Paramount among these is the constitution’s failure to recognize its citizens of African descent in the same or similar manner as it does its indigenous citizens. 

Xenophobia, South Africa and the ‘Other’

By Bill Fletcher, Jr., executive editor

By Ben Woods

Note de l’éditeur: Le Sahara occidental est un territoire qui occupe une grande partie de la côte nord-ouest de l’Afrique, de la Mauritanie au Maroc. Le territoire s'étend à l'est, formant une petite frontière avec l'Algérie. Le Sahara occidental est un territoire disputé depuis sa libération de la domination espagnole dans les années 1970, après quoi il a été rapidement réoccupé par une invasion marocaine en 1975. Le peuple sahraoui se bat depuis pour l’indépendance et l’autonomie. L'Ambassadeur Malainin Lakhal est Sahraoui, écrivain et diplomate.

Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, l’orientation générale du Gouvernement des États-Unis vers l’Afrique est de plus en plus définie par la militarisation des relations américano-africaines. En 2003, l’administration George W. Bush a établi la première base américaine permanente sur le continent à Djibouti. En 2007, le commandement américain pour l’Afrique (AFRICOM) a été créé.