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Why Mali is clashing with Algeria in the Sahel

This article is the second in a series of articles addressing the issues occurring in the Sahel region of Africa. This region stretches across...

Shot heard around the world, Africa speaks for itself!

This is a transcription of Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s January 2019 presentation at the Oxford Union debates in Oxford, where he was invited to speak...

The global exploitation and revolutionary potential of African women’s labor

Worldwide, African women form the backbone of economies. We work fields, take care of children that are not our own, clean homes we do...

University unveils digital collection of Uhuru history: Video, audio recordings added to 50 years of The Spear

On Thursday, April 10, 2025 the University of Florida (UFDC) George A. Smathers Libraries hosted the event “Recordings of Burning Spear Media: 30 Years...

Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

This article is an excerpted transcription of an interview with Makandal Cinque, who is a featured writer for The Burning Spear newspaper, a student...

The impending decline of imperialism in Western Africa: From Mali to the creation of the Alliance of the Sahel States

The Sahel region, stretching across the breadth of Africa from Senegal to Sudan, faces a multitude of interconnected colonial challenges today. One of the...

April marks forty years of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s work to push back the counterinsurgency!

The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) is a revolutionary mass organization under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). InPDUM was...

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

On February 28, Khaila Wilks (Czereda), a young African mother fighting to find her daughter, Iris Crum, was arrested after a disappointing family court...

Trump’s presidency continues colonialism—not fascism!

The world watches as U.S. President Trump 2.0 rapidly escalates armed military expulsions of Mexican, Indigenous, and other peoples crossing the U.S. borders to...
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