Tag: Africa: Buffalo Soldiers

NOVANEWS Mark P. Fancher Buffalo Soldiers Go To Africa “The last thing any African in the US wants or needs is the prospect of death in pursuit of a corporate agenda in Africa.” In black barbershops across the U.S. where old school brothers talk trash about sports and beg young bloods to either comb or shave the tops of their nappy fades, there may be little knowledge of goings-on in Africa. There is however concern and bewilderment in those shops about the death of Sgt. La David T. Johnson in Niger last month. America’s African community is drenched with its own blood, spilled during military conflicts instigated by an empire that uses soldiers drawn from the ranks of the poor and communities of color as cannon fodder. Like the Buffalo Soldiers who were ordered to kill Indians, Jo...