Africa

Nigeria’s Unprecedented Election Shows Importance of Politicized Youth in Time of Crisis
Nigeria’s national election is shaped by deepening capitalist crisis, outsider candidates, and an activated youth.
Sam Carliner
February 28, 2023Biden Shores Up Imperialist Interests at U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
The United States is hosting a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The Biden administration’s supposed interest in developing African leadership is just a new strategy for U.S. imperialism to plunder the continent and counter China.
Sam Carliner
December 13, 2022South African Logistics Workers Strike against Inflation
South African port and freight-rail workers are on strike, using their strategic power to fight the rising cost of living. This can offer important lessons for other logistics workers who are organizing strikes.
Sam Carliner
October 12, 2022Protests Grow in Sudan against Increasing Food and Fuel Prices
Demonstrations against rising food and fuel prices have reached Sudan, where demonstrators are calling for the fall of the military government.
Juan Andrés Gallardo
March 18, 2022Nigerian Women Rally for Democratic Rights
After Nigeria’s Senate rejected constitutional amendments that would expand democratic rights, women rallied outside parliament to demand equality.
Sam Carliner
March 4, 2022U.S. Military in Africa Fuels Political Violence Across the Continent
AFRICOM is a tool of U.S. imperialism that goes largely under the radar. Its consequences are devastating for the people of Africa.
Sam Carliner
February 12, 2022With the Coup in Burkina Faso, French Imperialism’s Crisis in West Africa Keeps Growing
This past Monday saw a military coup in Burkina Faso, with President Kaboré removed from power. It’s another sign of how the position of French imperialism in West Africa is being destabilized — and the French are worried.
Julien Anchaing
January 29, 2022Military Coup in Burkina Faso Is a Preemptive Strike Against Continuing Social Unrest
After a night of army mutiny in the west African country of Burkina Faso, soldiers on Monday, January 24, arrested the president and several government ministers in a coup d’état.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
January 26, 2022Sudan’s Prime Minister Resigns after New Mass Protests
Protests against the Sudanese military’s restoration to power of the very prime minister it overthrew in a coup have driven him from office again. Now protesters are aiming at taking down the military junta itself.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
January 4, 2022Another Attack on Protesters by French Troops in Africa, This Time Killing Three
Demonstrators demanding the departure of French troops from Operation Barkhane in the African Sahel region blocked a French army convoy last Saturday, and the soldiers and Nigerian police opened fire, killing three and injuring 17, 10 of them seriously.
Augustin Tagèl
November 30, 2021