Review of African Political Economy
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Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
Writing for roape.net, Antonia Baumgartner argues that behind the promise of peace, a set of recent US-backed agreements have reshaped how the DR Congo’s minerals, infrastructure & political choices are tied to Washington’s strategic priorities.
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February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Writing for roape.net, Antonia Baumgartner argues that behind the promise of peace, a set of recent US-backed agreements have reshaped how the DR Congo’s minerals, infrastructure & political choices are tied to Washington’s strategic priorities.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Writing for roape.net, Tafahri Munjatta examines the paradox of Raila #Odinga, #Kenya's most enduring opposition figure who passed in October 2025 – a man who spoke the language of #revolution yet moved within the architecture of power.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Writing for roape.net, Tafahri Munjatta examines the paradox of Raila #Odinga, #Kenya's most enduring opposition figure who passed in October 2025 – a man who spoke the language of #revolution yet moved within the architecture of power.
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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 3:09 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.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:01 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
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Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
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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
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#Fanon100
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
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#Fanon100
In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment @sarahjilani.bsky.social and @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social respond to the British imperialists @Policy_Exchange who have slandered #Fanon.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment @sarahjilani.bsky.social and @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social respond to the British imperialists @Policy_Exchange who have slandered #Fanon.
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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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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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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 🎄🔥
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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
Aymen Amayed reports on a recent international conference in Tunis that assembled leading critical analysts of imperialism and class struggle in the global South, including Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik, Sami Zemni, Ali Kadri & Paris Yeros.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Aymen Amayed reports on a recent international conference in Tunis that assembled leading critical analysts of imperialism and class struggle in the global South, including Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik, Sami Zemni, Ali Kadri & Paris Yeros.
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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 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 🚨 🔥
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— 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
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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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 10:55 AM
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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Congrats to Zohran Mamdani, The first African mayor of New York City!!! Now let's build the resistance against Wallstreet, the #Oligarchy and the political establishment. #Socialism #NYC
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Congrats to Zohran Mamdani, The first African mayor of New York City!!! Now let's build the resistance against Wallstreet, the #Oligarchy and the political establishment. #Socialism #NYC
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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Fikir Haile highlights ways the current government of Ethiopia differs with its predecessor in their engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and explains how the previous government resisted the neoliberal pressure.
Fikir Haile highlights ways the current government of Ethiopia differs with its predecessor in their engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and explains how the previous government resisted the neoliberal pressure.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Fikir Haile highlights ways the current government of Ethiopia differs with its predecessor in their engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and explains how the previous government resisted the neoliberal pressure.
Fikir Haile highlights ways the current government of Ethiopia differs with its predecessor in their engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and explains how the previous government resisted the neoliberal pressure.
“Between the workers and the bureaucrats, Nyerere hesitated before he ultimately stood with the latter. We lost the workers.”
In #ROAPE185, Issa Shivji reflects (in convo with Liu Ye) on the hopes and contradictions of Ujamaa and African #socialisms.
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In #ROAPE185, Issa Shivji reflects (in convo with Liu Ye) on the hopes and contradictions of Ujamaa and African #socialisms.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“Between the workers and the bureaucrats, Nyerere hesitated before he ultimately stood with the latter. We lost the workers.”
In #ROAPE185, Issa Shivji reflects (in convo with Liu Ye) on the hopes and contradictions of Ujamaa and African #socialisms.
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In #ROAPE185, Issa Shivji reflects (in convo with Liu Ye) on the hopes and contradictions of Ujamaa and African #socialisms.
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Biniam Sbhatu recounts historian Alemseged Tesfai’s powerful 2025 United Nations seminar, where Tesfai condemned the #UN’s 1952 decision to deny #Eritrea’s self-determination and honored the resilience of its people.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Biniam Sbhatu recounts historian Alemseged Tesfai’s powerful 2025 United Nations seminar, where Tesfai condemned the #UN’s 1952 decision to deny #Eritrea’s self-determination and honored the resilience of its people.
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Liam Taylor writes powerfully about how the market economy has commodified Uganda’s fish, cattle, and land in ways that enrich elites and markets while dispossessing and impoverishing ordinary people, causing ecological destruction and leaving society unstable and restless.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Liam Taylor writes powerfully about how the market economy has commodified Uganda’s fish, cattle, and land in ways that enrich elites and markets while dispossessing and impoverishing ordinary people, causing ecological destruction and leaving society unstable and restless.
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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 10:36 AM
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
roape.net/2025/07/30/c...
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources, by Blanca Camps-Febrer & Enrique Bengochea Tirado
roape.net/2025/07/30/c...
100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born.
Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist.
"What matters is not to know the world but to change it"
Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist.
"What matters is not to know the world but to change it"
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born.
Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist.
"What matters is not to know the world but to change it"
Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist.
"What matters is not to know the world but to change it"
In a new blog for roape.net, journalist Khadija Sharife argues the asset theft of African military intellectual property signals a continuation of imperial plunder and resource extraction in digital and scientific form.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In a new blog for roape.net, journalist Khadija Sharife argues the asset theft of African military intellectual property signals a continuation of imperial plunder and resource extraction in digital and scientific form.
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“We and all the others around the world who campaigned… were successful.”
– Peter Lawrence on global solidarity that helped commute the death sentences of the Rivonia Trialists. read his interview: roape.net/2025/06/18/p...
– Peter Lawrence on global solidarity that helped commute the death sentences of the Rivonia Trialists. read his interview: roape.net/2025/06/18/p...
June 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“We and all the others around the world who campaigned… were successful.”
– Peter Lawrence on global solidarity that helped commute the death sentences of the Rivonia Trialists. read his interview: roape.net/2025/06/18/p...
– Peter Lawrence on global solidarity that helped commute the death sentences of the Rivonia Trialists. read his interview: roape.net/2025/06/18/p...
Peter Lawrence is the tall man with glasses in the centre wearing a shirt and sweater during the 1964 Sussex student anti-Apartheid Brighton-to-London March. Legend! And he's still a lefty ! roape.net/2025/06/18/p...
June 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Peter Lawrence is the tall man with glasses in the centre wearing a shirt and sweater during the 1964 Sussex student anti-Apartheid Brighton-to-London March. Legend! And he's still a lefty ! roape.net/2025/06/18/p...
In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book - Military #Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 - Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from #Africa’s Military Marxists.
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June 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book - Military #Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 - Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from #Africa’s Military Marxists.
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