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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 16h

Join the online book launch of the African edition of 'What is the Real Marxist Tradition?', 18:30 GMT 22 Oct. Discuss Marxism's impact in Africa & explore new & radical perspectives for the continent’s political social movements & struggles. roape.net/2026/09/30/w...

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What is the Real Marxist Tradition in Africa? | ROAPE

John Molyneux’s classic statement of Marxist theory and practice What is the Real Marxist Tradition? was first published in 1984. The short book provided an incredibly sophisticated description of Mar...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rich Mallett argues that for Uganda’s boda boda workers ‘financial inclusion’ schemes promise ownership & entrepreneurship but in practice turn the dream of being your own boss into a precarious & often temporary escape from exploitation. roape.net/2026/09/25/t...

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The price of becoming your own boss in Uganda’s boda boda industry | ROAPE

It is said that Uganda’s vast motorcycle-taxi industry employs more men than any other sector outside agriculture. In Kampala alone, Uganda’s rapidly expanding capital city, estimates suggests there c...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In this new post for roape.net, James Akpu argues the underlying logics of a colonial wartime potato scheme in Nigeria’s highlands continue to reproduce themselves in so-called ‘food security’ programmes across the African continent today. roape.net/2026/09/18/f...

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For 50 years, ROAPE has brought readers pathbreaking analysis on radical African political economy.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is important. 📌

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the current moment, developing & deepening our understanding of US-led #imperialism is an urgent task for radical forces everywhere. In this spirit, ROAPE offers a curated selection of ten open-access publications on the topic from our archives: roape.net/2026/09/16/c...

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Charting the evolution of US-led imperialism, 1974-2026 | ROAPE

In 1990, Indian Marxist economist and political commentator Prabhat Patnaik asked ‘Whatever has happened to imperialism?’. His point was not that it had disappeared. To the contrary, he argued, “the d...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

African workers are deeply entrenched in a global system of migrant-labour exploitation & trafficking. Their experiences – from Gulf households to Myanmar’s scam compounds – expose the same recurring problem: what does a right to leave mean if workers cannot safely use it? roape.net/2026/09/09/a...

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African migrant workers who cannot return | ROAPE

Somebody in Kampala or Accra or Harare sees a job advertisement. Customer service, or something in IT, somewhere abroad. The pay is better than anything available at home. The recruiter is responsive ...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As part of our efforts to renew our ranks with radical African scholar-activists from the continent or the diaspora we introduce ROAPE's newest Editorial Working Group Affiliate, Abdoulie Kurang, who describes himself as an organic intellectual buff.ly/7EA3yji

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Writing for roape.net, Abiola Isikalu argues that Burkina Faso is extending state control over citizens by treating education & mobility as security threats, conditioning belonging on perceived loyalty rather than actual conduct. roape.net/2026/09/02/b...

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Before there is anything to punish: Burkina Faso’s new citizenship question | ROAPE

On July 16, 2026, when addressing the Forces vives in Yagha Province, Burkina Faso’s transitional president Captain Ibrahim Traoré referred to a statistic that seemed to take even him by surprise. “Th...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We break our annual shutdown to bring this urgent piece of writing from ROAPE's Leo Zeilig. "Professor Arday is dead. Murdered. Yet again another Black person has been killed – pilloried in a public execution orchestrated by a profoundly racist press & organised fascists" roape.net/2026/08/24/t...

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The murder of Professor Jason Arday | ROAPE

On Sunday 16 August I joined the vigil for Professor Arday in London’s Trafalgar Square in the summer’s heat, packed tight with thousands of protestors marking their respect, holding bunches of flower...

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ExcelAfrica @excelafrica.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#Sahel

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In our last post before our August shutdown, Stephanie Kitchen & David Mills argue that since the 1990s, donors & multinational publishers have entrenched an extraverted academic publishing economy across Africa. roape.net/2026/08/07/t...

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The extraversion of African academic journals | ROAPE

There is a long history of donor funding for African universities, research and publishing, going back to the colonial period, and the foundation of the International African Institute in 1926. The cr...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In this piece, Nishant Upadhyay asserts that developments in Burkina Faso have facilitated a repoliticisation of political economy, including everyday life, through mass mobilisation. roape.net/2026/08/05/b...

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Malick Doucouré argues that the recent anti-LGBT crackdowns in pro-Pan-African governments are about elites manufacturing unity against a fake external threat to absolve their failure to fix the economy. He argues it's time to reclaim the Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah & Sankara. buff.ly/hOFlOzV

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The homophobia of Pan-African regimes | ROAPE

West Africa has experienced a series of significant geopolitical developments in recent years, with the potential to reshape both its political landscape and economic trajectory. These are, in many…

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Regarding the informal economy, this book talks about actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans in Nairobi in particular from their own points of view. It looks at how they organize and get by in order to consider approaches for integrating into global economy.

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In this new blog for roape.net, Shevonne Henry & Erick Mwale argue Africa’s informal sector, not the traditional industrial working class, is emerging as the continent’s most important revolutionary force. roape.net/2026/07/29/b...

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Beyond Marx | ROAPE

The winter-beaten streets of the Johannesburg Central Business District are lined with informal traders this morning and they’re selling everything you can imagine – fruit, vegetables, cuts of meat, d...

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Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This question of who holds symbolic power in conservation is one we sit with daily. In Etanga we start by asking who owns the herd and whose knowledge names the land, before anyone draws a plan. Community first, or it is not conservation.

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In this editorial, ROAPE's Ray Bush introduces Issue 188. Bush argues that US warmongering is intimately connected to events on the African continent, driving up energy costs, worsening Africa’s debt & hunger crises, & reinforcing its structural dependence. roape.net/2026/07/22/w...

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War | ROAPE

The imperialist war waged by the USA and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the continued genocide in Gaza and the attempt to dismember Lebanon have far-reaching consequences for Africa. The...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🚨New journal issue alert! Volume 53 Issue 188 June 2026 War Pages: 129-279 Issue Editor: Ray Bush All articles, briefings and debates available to access, read and download for free from anywhere in the world 👇🏿 mailchi.mp/3d77c8c31fc4...

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ROAPE, Volume 53 Issue 188

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"At each stage of Guinea-Bissau’s economic history, women’s unacknowledged labour in cashew cultivation & processing provided the floor that kept households alive and the system functional. When the formal economy contracted, that floor held. When the state withdrew, that floor held." #WomensLabor

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Cashew capitalism - part two | ROAPE

The dominant cashew economy had established patterns that outlasted independence in 1974. By then, Amílcar Cabral was already dead, assassinated by Portuguese agents in Conakry the previous year. He n...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Amílcar Cabral’s insight was that colonial underdvlpmt was a system [that couldn't] be dismantled by replacing personnel & leaving structures intact. The cashew monoculture.. has outlasted everything except the dispossession it was designed to produce. That dispossession has always been gendered."

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In the final instalment on cashew capitalism, Klas Lundström Martínez argues that Guinea-Bissau’s colonial cashew monoculture created a permanent system of economic dependency, with women’s invisible labour holding the entire economy together. roape.net/2026/07/13/c...

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Cashew capitalism - part two | ROAPE

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I used to loved cashew but I saw a news segments where the hands of the African* people who harvested and processed them were ruined while they were being economically exploited. Hard to enjoy after that.. *I don't recall the country, it was years ago.

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the 1st of a 2-part instalment, Klas Lundström Martínez argues Guinea-Bissau’s ongoing crisis is shaped by circumstances rooted in the colonial era & the country’s failed attempts to break with its historical role as a cheap commodity producer for the Western world. roape.net/2026/07/06/c...

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Cashew capitalism - part one | ROAPE

An independent Guinea-Bissau was supposed to become an egalitarian society that rejected colonial structures. Instead, its economy rests on a ‘cashew capitalism’ whose foundations lie in colonialism’s...

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ExcelAfrica @excelafrica.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#Cameroon

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

60 years since Osendé Afana (1930-1966) was assassinated fighting Cameroon's neo-colonial state. Loic Gapin's blog revisits his 1966 book on how imperialism stifled African development — and why the problem hasn't gone away. buff.ly/XGyYjRK

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The visionary political economy of Osendé Afana (1930-1966) | ROAPE

This year is the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Osendé Afana (1930-1966), the Cameroonian Marxist economist and national liberation leader who died fighting a guerrilla insurgency against…

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This year, the Ruth Prize is awarded to Dr. Antonater Tafadzwa Choto for her 2025 article, "Zimbabwe 1995–2000: Rereading Gramsci’s organic intellectual in contemporary working-class struggles". alt-text: Dr. Antonater Tafadzwa Choto wearing red academic robes while speaking at a podium

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ROAPE Ruth First Prize 2026 | ROAPE

This year, the prize is awarded to Antonater Tafadzwa Choto for her 2025 article ‘Zimbabwe 1995–2000: rereading Gramsci’s organic intellectual in contemporary working-class struggles’. It was publishe...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

n this piece, ROAPE announces the 2026 winner of the Ruth Prize, Zimbabwean scholar and activist Antonater Tafadzwa Choto roape.net/2026/06/29/r...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Love it! #Ubuntu #abolition

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Writing for roape.net, Onwubiko Agozino argues for penal abolitionism through a return to the original Ubuntu African philosophy of forgiveness that appears to be reserved for the rich and powerful today. roape.net/2026/06/24/c...

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Corruption and penal abolitionism | ROAPE

Corruption studies tend to focus on developing countries even though corruption is a global system. Marx concluded that corruption, violence, slavery – in short, force – is the primitive or primary fo...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region. buff.ly/RHAPeFy

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Is France funding terrorism in the Sahel? ROAPE |

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Introducing an open access special issue on reparations & global health, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko argues that if the 19th century was the era of abolition & the 20th century of decolonisation (however incomplete), then the 21st century must be the era of repair. roape.net/2026/06/10/t...

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The body keeps the score | ROAPE

Before there was a Commission, there were generations who died too young – not because of bad genes, but because of stolen land, unpaid labour, and a minority world that extracted everything it could ...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026. Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post! roape.net/2026/05/12/r...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In this obituary, Jabu Nala-Hartley remembers leading South African labour militant, trade unionist and socialist David Hemson. ROAPE's Peter Dwyer interviewed David in 2024 - the link to those videos is also available in the post. roape.net/2026/06/03/h...

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Honouring a fallen warrior | ROAPE

When someone recently asked me if I was alright, I almost gave the familiar answer: “Yes, I’m fine.” But the truth is, I was not. Because how can any of us be fine when our movement has lost David Hem...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

To mark the 100th anniversary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Peter Lawrence and Janet Cherry introduce ROAPE’s special issue 187, which focuses on the role of the SACP in the post-liberation government led by the African National Congress. buff.ly/YNyljjj

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🚨ROAPE Journal, Volume 53 Issue 187 is out now! The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa Issue Editors: Janet Cherry and Peter Lawrence 🇿🇦 mailchi.mp/913887ebf450...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Writing for roape.net, Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo and Sara Geenen argue narratives that portray artisanal Congolese cobalt miners as violent criminals or illegal invaders make things worse, reinforcing the marginalisation & insecurity that mining communities already face. roape.net/2026/05/27/t...

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UMN Political Science @umnpolisci.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Professor August Nimtz discusses how his travels to Tanzania played a crucial role in his journey from Pan-African nationalism to radical socialism, and his views on Cuba today, Black Lives Matter, and the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, with @roapejournal.bsky.social roape.net/2026/05/11/t...

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The African roots of August Nimtz’s radical education ROAPE |

ROAPE interviews legendary Minneapolis-based African American socialist August Nimtz. In the conversation, Nimtz shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectu...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In March, the UN passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Priyanka Sharma argues the vote was a strategic masterstroke, forcing the West to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth. roape.net/2026/05/20/t...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Gathanga Ndung’u - community organiser & activist at @MathareSJustice - explains how Kenya’s puppet government is helping France salvage its waning colonial grip on Africa & how the voices opposed to these imperial manoeuvres are being brutally silenced. roape.net?p=59562

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The Review of African Political Economy is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026. See here for further details including how to apply: roape.net/2026/05/12/r...

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ROAPE: Editorial Working Group affiliates | ROAPE

The Review of African Political Economy is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group (EWG) for a year starting from September 2026. We are particularly interested in app...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

ROAPE interviews legendary African-American socialist August Nimtz who shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectual journey from Pan-African nationalism to radical socialism. buff.ly/XIa0YOY

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Writing for roape.net, @sofiannaceur.bsky.social argues that the notion of ‘border management’ is rooted in counterinsurgency & pacification tactics, & embodies nothing but merging migration control & labor extraction into a single, neocolonial concept. roape.net/2026/05/06/t...

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In light of the release of his memoir this month @BenMaiangwa's blog's reflects on the harsh realities of the boarding school system in Africa and its endurance as a colonial relic. buff.ly/pI8PBFC

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Lyla Latif introduces her new book, Governing Public Money, which seeks to reveal the colonial histories and power relations hidden beneath public finance in Kenya 🇰🇪 roape.net/2026/04/29/t...

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