Ben Radley
@radleyben.bsky.social
Reader in International Development at Bath | Editor for Review of African Political Economy (roape.net) | Research mining, energy & labour in Africa & Asia-Pacific | www.benradley.com
Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture
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Writing for ROAPE, and drawing on original empirical data from eight African countries, Robin Jaspert argues that the profits reaped out of Africa flow into the hands of foreign capitalists mostly located in the global North.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture
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Writing for ROAPE, and drawing on original empirical data from eight African countries, Robin Jaspert argues that the profits reaped out of Africa flow into the hands of foreign capitalists mostly located in the global North.
roape.net/2026/01/14/i...
roape.net/2026/01/14/i...
January 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Writing for ROAPE, and drawing on original empirical data from eight African countries, Robin Jaspert argues that the profits reaped out of Africa flow into the hands of foreign capitalists mostly located in the global North.
roape.net/2026/01/14/i...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100?
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here:
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#Fanon100
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here:
mailchi.mp/09af158365d9...
#Fanon100
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100?
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here:
mailchi.mp/09af158365d9...
#Fanon100
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here:
mailchi.mp/09af158365d9...
#Fanon100
@roapejournal.bsky.social ending 2025 with a bang!
A new special issue on the revolutionary Frantz #Fanon (1925–1961) stuffed full of contributions that critically reflect on his life & legacy.
#Fanon100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
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A new special issue on the revolutionary Frantz #Fanon (1925–1961) stuffed full of contributions that critically reflect on his life & legacy.
#Fanon100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
bsky.app/profile/roap...
1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation - ROAPE
Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary…
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December 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
@roapejournal.bsky.social ending 2025 with a bang!
A new special issue on the revolutionary Frantz #Fanon (1925–1961) stuffed full of contributions that critically reflect on his life & legacy.
#Fanon100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
bsky.app/profile/roap...
A new special issue on the revolutionary Frantz #Fanon (1925–1961) stuffed full of contributions that critically reflect on his life & legacy.
#Fanon100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
bsky.app/profile/roap...
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
buff.ly/gASaoZD
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
buff.ly/gASaoZD
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation - ROAPE
Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary…
roape.net
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
buff.ly/gASaoZD
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
buff.ly/gASaoZD
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In an update from our post about Nigerian government arrests, imprisonements and torture from last year, the Abuja 11 finally get justice. Maxwell Adeyemi reports.
#Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11
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#Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11
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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In an update from our post about Nigerian government arrests, imprisonements and torture from last year, the Abuja 11 finally get justice. Maxwell Adeyemi reports.
#Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11
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#Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11
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We also recently ran a full special issue on Western Sahara - 'Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources' - which you can find here www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...
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Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.
How the UN betrayed the decolonisation of Western Sahara - ROAPE
Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi…
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December 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We also recently ran a full special issue on Western Sahara - 'Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources' - which you can find here www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...
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ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal, with an editorial: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice 🔥 🔥 🔥
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice - ROAPE
ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal
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November 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal, with an editorial: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Thelma Arko & Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thelma Arko & Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action.
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Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.
How the UN betrayed the decolonisation of Western Sahara - ROAPE
Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi…
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.
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“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.”
— Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961.
🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥
#Fanon100
— Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961.
🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥
#Fanon100
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.”
— Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961.
🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥
#Fanon100
— Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961.
🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥
#Fanon100
Thanks to @sulaimanij.bsky.social for this invite to talk about Congo, mining & the global energy transition for @energyrevolution.bsky.social. Perhaps of interest to some.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Thanks to @sulaimanij.bsky.social for this invite to talk about Congo, mining & the global energy transition for @energyrevolution.bsky.social. Perhaps of interest to some.
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Ben Radley explains why Congo sits at the centre of the energy transition, supplying over two-thirds of global cobalt and major copper for electrification. #EnergyTransition #Cobalt #Copper #CleanEnergy
December 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ben Radley explains why Congo sits at the centre of the energy transition, supplying over two-thirds of global cobalt and major copper for electrification. #EnergyTransition #Cobalt #Copper #CleanEnergy
New @roapejournal.bsky.social journal issue out, great stuff including an interview & reflections with the magnificent Issa Shivji
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ROAPE Volume 52 Issue 185 is out now!
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
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Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
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November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New @roapejournal.bsky.social journal issue out, great stuff including an interview & reflections with the magnificent Issa Shivji
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Shaun Milton reviews Saima Ndahangwapo’s new book Defending the Investment about uranium mining in Namibia, arguing it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of decolonisation in Africa.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Shaun Milton reviews Saima Ndahangwapo’s new book Defending the Investment about uranium mining in Namibia, arguing it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of decolonisation in Africa.
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As part of @guerrilla_pod's African revolutions & decolonisation series, Henry Hakamäki spoke w. Josaphat Musamba, Prof Germain Tshibambe & myself about mining in Congo. History, environmental & economic impacts, nuances etc.
2 1/2 hours!
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2 1/2 hours!
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Guerrilla History: Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley (AR&D Ep.10)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you another fascinating episode in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization. This time, a big episode on mining in Congo - extraction, e...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As part of @guerrilla_pod's African revolutions & decolonisation series, Henry Hakamäki spoke w. Josaphat Musamba, Prof Germain Tshibambe & myself about mining in Congo. History, environmental & economic impacts, nuances etc.
2 1/2 hours!
guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/mining-the-c...
2 1/2 hours!
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Guerrilla History: Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley (AR&D Ep.10)
Episode webpage: guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/mining-the-c...
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Episode webpage: guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/mining-the-c...
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Guerrilla History: Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley (AR&D Ep.10)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you another fascinating episode in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization. This time, a big episode on mining in Congo - extraction, e...
guerrillahistory.libsyn.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Guerrilla History: Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley (AR&D Ep.10)
Episode webpage: guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/mining-the-c...
Media file: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/guerr...
Episode webpage: guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/mining-the-c...
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Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the historical processes of political, economic & social failure in #Eswatini that have led the Communist Party of #Swaziland to declare 2025 the Year of Mass Mobilisation for the Insurrectionary Seizure of Power.
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Swaziland under the Mswati–Taiwan–Israel alliance: an ongoing struggle - ROAPE
Writing in response to a blog post published on roape.net in May 2025, Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the broader historical processes of political, economic and social failure in Eswatini that have led ...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the historical processes of political, economic & social failure in #Eswatini that have led the Communist Party of #Swaziland to declare 2025 the Year of Mass Mobilisation for the Insurrectionary Seizure of Power.
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Check out our new walking tour app that celebrates Black histories in Bath, from the Roman Empire to the present day. The app has been developed by Bath academics at CDS with BEMSCA.
Learn more about the walk: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...
@devcomms.bsky.social @radleyben.bsky.social
Learn more about the walk: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Check out our new walking tour app that celebrates Black histories in Bath, from the Roman Empire to the present day. The app has been developed by Bath academics at CDS with BEMSCA.
Learn more about the walk: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...
@devcomms.bsky.social @radleyben.bsky.social
Learn more about the walk: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...
@devcomms.bsky.social @radleyben.bsky.social
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Drawing upon 41 interviews and 200 hours of observant participation, Siyabulela Fobosi delivers a scathing criticism of South Africa’s Taxi Recapitalisation Programme, arguing that it deepens precarity and workers’ resistance.
How South Africa’s Taxi Recapitalisation Programme deepens precarity and workers' resistance - ROAPE
Siyabulela Christopher Fobosi revisits the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) through the lens of precarious work, with a particular focus on minibus taxi drivers and marshals in Johannesburg.…
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September 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Drawing upon 41 interviews and 200 hours of observant participation, Siyabulela Fobosi delivers a scathing criticism of South Africa’s Taxi Recapitalisation Programme, arguing that it deepens precarity and workers’ resistance.
Or, to put it another way, DR #Congo - which provides around 3/4s of world cobalt supply - receives less than 0.6% of the value generated in the global electric vehicle value chain (much of which disappears overseas anyhow).
Source: ecfr.eu/publication/...
Source: ecfr.eu/publication/...
September 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Or, to put it another way, DR #Congo - which provides around 3/4s of world cobalt supply - receives less than 0.6% of the value generated in the global electric vehicle value chain (much of which disappears overseas anyhow).
Source: ecfr.eu/publication/...
Source: ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Longstanding ROAPE editor Colin Stoneman recalls his impressions of #Zimbabwe under colonial occupation, the country’s liberation struggle and its leading unionist & political figures, including Morgan Tsvangiri.
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Colin Stoneman on liberation struggle in Zimbabwe and ROAPE's radical origins - ROAPE
Ben Radley speaks with longstanding ROAPE editor Colin Stoneman about his political journey from chemist to Marxist political economist working on Zimbabwe. The interview explores Stoneman's impressio...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Longstanding ROAPE editor Colin Stoneman recalls his impressions of #Zimbabwe under colonial occupation, the country’s liberation struggle and its leading unionist & political figures, including Morgan Tsvangiri.
roape.net/2025/09/03/c...
roape.net/2025/09/03/c...
Excellent to see this out after a bit of work steering it through. Learnt a huge amount in the process about a context I knew little of before. Includes a slightly different but wonderful article on artistic engagement in resistance through poetry & song
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The editorial from the latest issue of ROAPE journal, including links to freely access all the listed articles:
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources, by Blanca Camps-Febrer & Enrique Bengochea Tirado
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Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources, by Blanca Camps-Febrer & Enrique Bengochea Tirado
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July 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Excellent to see this out after a bit of work steering it through. Learnt a huge amount in the process about a context I knew little of before. Includes a slightly different but wonderful article on artistic engagement in resistance through poetry & song
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