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The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a socialist journal & website providing radical analysis of capitalist exploitation, oppression & resistance.

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ROAPE's new book, Voices for African Liberation, is now available to pre-order with @Ebb_Magazine . A 532-page collection of 38 interviews with & about African & Africanist radicals engaged in struggle past & present to reshape Africa. Get your copy now!

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ROAPE is excited to announce the forthcoming volume on Africa's (untold) revolutionary history which will be published later this year by @PlutoPress & @CODESRIA with chapters on Tanzania, South Africa, Mali, Senegal and more - edited by @nssylla , Pascal Bianchini & @LeoZeilig

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Nkrumah and Lumumba shaking hands. Months later, 17 Jan 1961, #PatriceLumumba the Congo's first democratically elected president was murdered as the CIA, the UN and Belgium moved against him. This blog remember his commitment to African Liberation

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On this day, 12 September 1924, #AmilcarCabral was born. He was one of the most capable and brightest leaders of African liberation. This article remembers his legacy:

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of CODESRIA. Founded by Samir Amin at the start of Feb 1973, the pan-African research centre was, in Amin’s words “conceived ... to promote independent & audacious African reflections.” Long Live CODESRIA!

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From 2024 all ROAPE’s work will be available on a single platform with no paywalls and equal access for researchers, activists, and readers, wherever they are based. We passionately believe that the future for radical publications is genuine open access.

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ROAPE’s Chinedu Chukwudinma writes about Walter Rodney’s uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Rodney’s defence of the methods used by freedom fighters contains many lessons. Palestinian resistance is justified irrespective of the means used.

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Walter Rodney and Palestinian Liberation - ROAPE

In the context of Isreali’s mass murder of Palestinians, ROAPE’s Chinedu Chukwudinma writes about Walter Rodney’s uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Rodney’s defence of the methods...

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ROAPE is delighted to announce that we are now completely & genuinely open access! Explore our rich archive of everything published for 50 years. Support our initiative by subscribing/donating to make sure we keep corporate publishers away from the journal.

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The year 2025 will mark the one 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth. In this call for papers, ROAPE seeks to mark this occasion through reflections, arguments, & analyses of his life, his philosophy, his activism, & his political legacies today.

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Call for Papers - Frantz Fanon at 100: A Century of Radical Thought and Action - ROAPE

The year 2025 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth. ROAPE intends to mark this occasion through reflections, arguments, and analyses of his life, his philosophy, his...

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The first issue of ROAPE as an independent, self-published journal (again) - published, printed and distributed to our international readers. Academic publishers who lockdown content behind paywalls must end. Subscribe to your print issue here:

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One hundred years ago today, on 30 November 1922, two Black revolutionaries - Otto Huiswoud & Claude McKay - led the Fourth Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in adopting a world strategy for Black liberation.

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📢 As of 1 Jan 2024, all our journal content is now freely available to all. No more corporate paywalls or author fees. Discover it through . To receive the quarterly journal to your inbox or postbox, subscribe here now 👇🏿

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Scholars & activists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, came together to draft the Dakar Declaration. Against the multifaceted crises of capitalism the Dakar Declaration calls for Pan-African cooperation & global solidarity.

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On 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first leader, was murdered. Congolese scholar and activist, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, writes about Lumumba's leadership of the nationalist movement and argues liberation has yet to take place in Africa.

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Patrice Lumumba and the unfinished business of liberation - ROAPE

On 17 January 1961 Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first leader, was murdered. In this celebration of his life and work, the Congolese scholar and activist, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, writes about the...

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Titina Sila was a popular figure of Guinean-Bissau's independence struggle. Her militancy and health campaigns gave here prominence in the PAIGC. She was killed at 30 on 30 January 1973 by the Portuguese while traveling to #AmilcarCabral ’s funeral.

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January marks the 120 anniversary of the Herero and Nama genocide by Germany in 1904. Germany's support for Israel's genocide on #Palestine shows it has learnt nothing from history. We republish Heike Becker piece on #Namibia 's reparation struggle.

Germany’s Namibia Genocide Apology: the limits of decolonizing the past - ROAPE

We republish a widely read article in commemoration of the 120th anniversary of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide in Namibia (1904-1908) by the German empire. Heike Becker discussed the 2021 agreement...

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Years ago Joachim Mwami began translating Marx's Capital into Kiswahili, spoken by 100 million people in East Africa. Now, as his translation is finalized for publication, he sat down with Loren Balhorn to talk about Marx, Marxism & translation in Africa.

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This looks too good not to share. Coming out later this year with @Ebb_Magazine to celebrate our 50th anniversary. The cover image is Cry for Freedom (1973), a painting by Mozambican artist & revolutionary freedom fighter Malangatana Valente Ngwenya. #VoicesforAfricanLiberation

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Mass protest in Niger last Thursday, independence day. No to war against Niger. ECOWAS / imperialist troops would have to kill these people to achieve the goal of their war against Niger. No to War!

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On 13 June 1980, the Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney was assassination. In the final part of Chinedu Chukwudinma’s biography he celebrates Rodney’s revolutionary organising. Rodney remains an exemplar to those fighting to change the world today.

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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." – #SteveBiko , founder of the black consciousness movement and anti-apartheid martyr, was born on 18 Dec 1946 and would've been 75 today.

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ROAPE’s founding editor, Peter Lawrence, explains that from January 2024, all of our readers will be able to access every part of ROAPE without a paywall. We need subscriptions and donations to make this revolutionary intiative work. Sign up now!

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ROAPE – a revolutionary new beginning - ROAPE

For 50 years, ROAPE has brought our readers pathbreaking analysis on radical African political economy in our quarterly review, and for more than ten years on our website. ROAPE’s founding editor,...

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Since November last year, Ethiopia has been fighting a devastating civil war with the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front. Hibist Kassa argues that the scale of misinformation on the war is deeply troubling and pervasive.

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Ethnonationalism, imperialism and the working class in Ethiopia - ROAPE

Since November last year, Ethiopia has been fighting a devastating civil war with the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front. Hibist Kassa argues that the scale of misinformation on the war, lack of context...

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In this latest for 's Capitalism in Africa series, Benjamin Rubbers details the neoliberal labour regime at the heart of the Central African Copperbelt, & examines how this regime is negotiated & resisted by workers & unionists.

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On this day 18 December 1946, Steve Biko was born. This article looks at his #antiapartheid activism as he founding member of the South African Student Organization (SASO) which later evolved into the #Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).

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ROAPE defends Hakim Adi, historian & activist, who has now been made redundant by the University of Chichester. His students - African & of African descent - are now left without supervision & his pathbreaking course on African history has been closed.

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Senegal is on fire - to understand what is happening, read ROAPE's interview with Ndongo Sylla. The country has a rich history of social movements, but they have done more to resolve political conflicts than open up new horizons…at least up to now.

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ROAPE announces a research grants competition for African researchers and activists based in Africa. A shortage of funding for research is one of the problems faced by Africa-based scholars/activists wishing to carry out a radical political economy agenda

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Though it was held in Cuba in Jan 1966, the Tricontinental Conference–the highpoint of the non-aligned movement against imperialism–had African Roots. In Algeria, Ben Bella had planned for a similar event in 1965 but he was ousted. So the torch went to Castro and Che in Havana.

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ROAPE’s Chinedu Chukwudinma, unearths two previously unknown draft texts by Walter Rodney in the archives in Atlanta. He writes how Rodney was inspired by the lessons of the Cuban revolution and began to imagine a world without racism and inequality.

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The winner of ROAPE’s Ruth First Prize, awarded annually for the best article published by an African author, is Musa Nxele for his article on crony capitalist deals in South Africa’s platinum belt. Nxele's article is now available to read for free.

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Assata Shakur #BlackPower symbol, former Black Liberation movement activist, Godmother of late rapper Tupac Shakur was born on this day, 16 July 1947 in NYC She escaped from prison in 1979 and has since lived in exile in Cuba! Happy birthday to our legend. #blacklivesmatter

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Today, 6 December 1961, the young Martiniquais Algerian revolutionary #FrantzFanon passed away from Leukaemia. But he left behind The Wretched of the Earth–a manifesto for #decolonization in the GlobalSouth. This piece shows how his ideas still live on:

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Heike Becker writes about what has been going on in Germany since 7 October last year. Becker points out the deafening silence in mainstream German politics and society about the thousands of children, women, and men who have been killed.

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Learning nothing from history: Germany, genocide, and colonialism in the time of Gaza - ROAPE

Heike Becker writes about what has been going on in Germany since 7 October last year. She contextualises the German government’s unconditional support of Israel’s conduct in Gaza and astonishing...

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African Hero and Martyr Thomas Sankara was born on this day 21 Dec 1949. He fought to drive french #imperialism out of Burkina Faso and lead his country through hardships, with an anti-imperialist #socialist stance until his tragic murder. Rest in Power

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“The international forces against Sankara were too much” – Victoria Brittain in conversation with...

Radical journalist Victoria Brittain discusses the life of Thomas Sankara with Brian J. Peterson. Peterson has written a biography which recounts in detail the life, politics and assasination of the...

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Happy independence to Guinea-Bissau! 🇬🇼 Check out our recent interview on Amilcar Cabral's legacy with author António Tomás:

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The Marxist C. L. R. James (1901-1989) was born 122 years ago #Otd . Celebrating his birthday, Matthew Quest places james' radical political economy centered on working class self-emancipation in conversation with the African world and the continent:

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106 years ago, In April 1917, #Lenin published Imperialism: the Highest stage of Capitalism, where he argued that colonial domination would provoke wars of liberation. Its no wonder that he became a key influence for anti-colonial leaders in #Africa :

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Ambreena Manji writes about the threatened eviction of more than 80,000 Masai in Tanzania. The government claim that the Masai must be cleared from their land in the interests of conservation. Manji writes about what is really going on.

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Victoria Brittain discusses the life of Thomas Sankara with Brian J. Peterson. Peterson has written a biography which recounts in detail the politics and assasination of the Burkinabé revolutionary. Brittain and Peterson talk about his work.

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“The international forces against Sankara were too much” – Victoria Brittain in conversation with...

Radical journalist Victoria Brittain discusses the life of Thomas Sankara with Brian J. Peterson. Peterson has written a biography which recounts in detail the life, politics and assasination of the...

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Rama Salla Dieng introduces a series of interviews with African feminists that will be posting in the coming weeks. Young African feminists will discuss how they are theorising their practice. Dieng provides the background...

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On 4 January 1901, Trinidadian Marxist CLR James was born. Celebrating his 123rd birthday, Matthew Quest examines James' collaboration with George Padmore, the tensions in their #PanAfrican activism and their differences on #socialism and anti-imperialism.

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CLR James and George Padmore: Hidden Disputes in The Black Radical Tradition - ROAPE

On CLR James’ 123rd birthday, Matthew Quest examines the collaboration between James and George Padmore since their partnership within the International African Service Bureau in the 1930s. Despite...

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Understand the background to what is happening in Senegal, read @nssylla 's interview about the regime’s attempt to frustrate the elections. Sylla examines the social and political forces that are engulfing the country and the neo-colonial settlement.

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The June Days – Senegal’s struggle for justice - ROAPE

Since the start of the month, Senegal has seen major demonstrations, rioting, and violence. In an interview with ROAPE, Ndongo Sylla explains what is happening. Supporters of opposition leader,...

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Samir Amin’s development of radical political economy, his contributions to our journal and ways of seeing the world, are immense. From our very first Issue to this interview last year we have so much sadness and gratitude. Friend, comrade, rest in power.

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In celebration of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who turned 85 this year, @sarahjilani offer an extract on his novel A Grain of Wheat (1967) from her forthcoming book. She explores the complex relationship between gender, subjectivity and Ngũgĩ’s anti-colonial vision.

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We mourn the death of John Saul, a founding member of ROAPE, but we also celebrate the life & work of a socialist who was a dedicated fighter for African liberation - before & after the continent's formal independence. Read our full interview with him:

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Revolutionary movements in the global north in the 60s & 70s have received much attention, yet similar politics in Africa have been ignored. In an extract from their new book, editors Bianchini, Sylla & Zeilig, argue Africa’s revolutionary left was vibrant.

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Revolutionary movements in Africa – an untold story - ROAPE

While revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have...

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One key figure of the Zanzibari Revolution of 1964 was the Marxist Abdulrahman M. Babu sitting next to Che Guevara. While a minister under Nyerere who imprisoned him in 1972, he remained very critical of the regime. Babu authored a book: African Socialism or Socialist Africa?

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In her new book 'African Feminisms – a decolonial history', the Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng interviews feminists about their work, struggles & lives. Interviewed by Coumba Kane, Dieng speaks about what it means to be a feminist in Africa.

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When the exploited won! New year's day marks 219th anniversary of The Haitian Revolution of 1 January 1804. The only successful mass slave revolt made #Haiti the first independent black republic and the first nation to abolish slavery.

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Louis Allday writes how book publishing from the 1960s became an important weapon of propaganda by the CIA. Founder of the new website Liberated Texts, Allday argues that books remain vital tools that can fundamentally transform our worldview.

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Liberated Texts: The power of books as propaganda - ROAPE

Louis Allday writes how book publishing from the 1960s became an important weapon of strategic propaganda by the CIA and other intelligence agencies. The new website Liberated Texts aims to provide a...

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Rama Salla Dieng explains that the genocide in Palestine is a feminist & reproductive justice issue. The ultimate goal of Israel – and Western powers – is to render impossible the social reproduction of Palestinians.

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Why Palestine is a feminist and an anti-colonial issue - ROAPE

Rama Salla Dieng explains that the current genocide in Palestine is a feminist and reproductive justice issue. The ultimate goal of Israel - and the Western powers that support this settler colonial...

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On the 80th anniversary of Walter Rodney's birth we post the second part of Chinedu Chukwudinma's study on Rodney. In 1963 Rodney moved to London to study for a PhD. In the UK, he confronted racism, a sectarian left & studied Marxism alongside CLR James.

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ROAPE is now fully open access, each journal article, review, briefing & debate for 50 years is available for everyone to read. ROAPE is also welcoming new submissions to our peer-reviewed journal. Here are instructions how to submit on our new platform.

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ROAPE is now fully open access, each journal article, review, briefing and debate published for 50 years is available for everyone to read, download and share. As well as moving to a new open access...

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In this new blog, Duncan Money ( @mininghistory ) introduces a free to read & download collection of recently published articles reflecting on the life & legacy of former Zambian President Kenneth #Kaunda , Africa's last anti-colonial leader. 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

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Remembering Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021), Africa's Last Anti-Colonial Leader - ROAPE

Towards the end of 2023, the fully open access and free to download Zambia Journal of Social Science published an edited collection of nine articles investigating and reflecting on the life and...

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ROAPE is delighted at the defeat of Macky Sall's candidate & party in Senegal. We stand with all those hoping for real change. Read our interview with one of the main figures in left politics in Senegal - @GuyMariusSagna who will be active in the new gov.

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Decolonising a neo-colony: an interview with Guy Marius Sagna - ROAPE

In March, Senegal experienced unprecedented popular protests. Recently released from prison, activist Guy Marius Sagna, founding member of the Front for an Anti-Imperialist Popular and Pan-African...

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ROAPE's special issue on Samir Amin (eds @ingridharvold @mariadyveke @ushehweduk @raymondobush ) will be available to read on free access from late afternoon (GMT) on 16 March for 2 weeks. There will be blogposts by the editors/authors. @TandF_Africa

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Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy

Published in Review of African Political Economy (Vol. 48, No. 167, 2021)

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Sixty years after the death of Frantz Fanon and the publication of his masterpiece, The Wretched of the Earth, Algeria is undergoing another revolution. Hamza Hamouchene discusses Fanon and the new popular movement (Hirak) engulfing Algeria.

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Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution today - ROAPE

Sixty years after the death of the revolutionary Frantz Fanon and the publication of his masterpiece, The Wretched of the Earth, Algeria is undergoing another revolution. In the first of a two-part...

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Lenin’s theories have aided both African anti-imperialist struggles and the study of African political economy. Lenin militantly opposed colonialism and supported African independence. Read Joe Pateman's full article on Lenin's debt to Africa.

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The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism Translated title: La centralité de...

Lenin’s Marxist theories have aided both African anti-imperialist struggles and the study of African political economy. Recently, however, some scholars have reinvigorated the postcolonial critique...

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Remembering and celebrating Walter Rodney on the day of his birth (23/03/1942) - from the archive, Andy Higginbottom looks at Rodney's 1972 classic, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

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In the latest exposé of Rwanda’s poverty statistics, our experts reveal the methodical faking of statistical evidence. The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda and the World Bank will not be able to keep denying the evidence. Heads will have to roll.

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Queen Nzinga ruled over the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms in #Angola and at times resisted the slave trade. She died on 17 Dec 1663 at 80. In her piece, @drsaalajeng1 claims Nzinga is proof that Africa has always produced powerful women:

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#AmilcarCabral 's speech Weapon of Theory impressed Fidel Castro at the Tricontinental Conference, Jan 1966: Sadly, Cabral was murdered today, 20 Jan 1973–a year before the victory of the anti-colonial struggle in Guinea-Bissau, which he organised and led.

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Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a masterpiece. In this review of the new edition of the book, Andy Higginbottom celebrates a classic that has lost none of its power. For those interested in Africa, the book must be studied once more

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With the indictment of Compaoré, could there be justice for Sankara (and Burkina Faso)? @LeoZeilig unpicks the history of Sankara's revolution and murder in 1987. via @TC_Africa

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Now there’s a chance of justice for Thomas Sankara, it’s useful to review what got him killed

Burkina Faso is still in the throes of chaos decades after the assasination of the charismatic president

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2023 marks the 85th anniversary #CLRJames ' masterpiece The Black Jacobins (1938). It remains among the best examples of radical historical writing and the best account of the #Haitian Revolution ( 1791-1804)

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Anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist, and Son of Trinidad: My worldview would not be what it is today without C.L.R James’ scholarship & works like “The Black Jacobins”— a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora

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In an interview with ROAPE, writer, researcher and activist Ndongo Samba Sylla speaks about his work, French imperialism, and the struggle for economic and political liberation in Senegal and across Africa.

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Titina Sila is a popular figure of Guinean-Bissau's independence struggle. Her militancy and health campaigns led to her rise in the PAIGC. She was killed at 30 on this day 30 January 1973 by the Portuguese while traveling to #AmilcarCabral ’s funeral.

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In a celebration of the life of John Saul, his friend & comrade Peter Lawrence remembers a tireless revolutionary. One of the founding editors of ROAPE, Saul worked in Tanzania & Mozambique, where he analysed the possibilities for socialism and liberation.

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John Saul - a complete revolutionary socialist - ROAPE

In a celebration of the life of John Saul, his friend and comrade Peter Lawrence remembers a tireless revolutionary, activist, and writer. One of the founding editors of ROAPE, Saul worked in...

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Funding opportunity for scholar-activists in the Global South to realise individual research projects on the global entanglements of authoritarian politics, reactionary movements and ideologies, and emancipatory counter-strategies @rosaluxstiftung

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In a long-read, Yusuf Serunkuma looks at the extraordinary foreign control of Africa, from banking, the coffee trade, land grabs and mining. Why have Africans failed to see how former colonisers have continued the pillage of the continent?

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Colonialism is alive and well in Africa, but goes by many nice names - ROAPE

Yusuf Serunkuma asks how the continued and violent colonisation of the continent has not been more systematically resisted. In a long-read, Serunkuma looks at the extraordinary control of the...

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Join a conversation with activists and scholars from the US, Kenya and Britain on slavery, colonialism and Black Lives Matter, and the challenges and hopes for revolutionary change - Monday, 27 July, 8 pm Kenya / 6 pm UK / 1 pm EDT (see link for details).

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Once arrested for protesting South African Apartheid, Now joining a South African delegation to denounce Isreal's Genocidal Apartheid at the International Court of Justice. Oooooooooooooooooooh Jeremy #Corbyn ! (Photo: Rob Scott)

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In 1972 Walter Rodney published his masterpiece How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Rodney’s book took a similar approach to Eduardo Galeano’s 1971 classic, examining 400 years of European intervention in Africa. Leo Zeilig looks at Rodney's 1972 book.

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Walter Rodney moved to Tanzania in 1969. As a lecturer at the university, he threw himself into radical debates in the country. Chinedu Chukwudinma writes how Rodney immersed himself in the politics & wrote his masterpiece How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

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Delighted to announce ROAPE's special issue on the climate crisis, 'The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, solutions and resistance', edited by @lenaweinstein Janet Bujra & @ChandaMfula

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Review of African Political Economy

The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, solutions and resistance. Volume 50, Issue 177-178 of Review of African Political Economy

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Andy Higginbottom summarises his report on corporate profits in South Africa. He asks who are the main corporate players in South African mining? Higginbottom argues we must fight to ensure that Cecil Rhodes’ structural legacy must fall.

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We share our full solidarity with Palestine. Supporting the resistance against Israeli settler colonialism, the worst Apartheid in history, is the right thing to do. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 #gaza #isrealiApartheid #Freepalestine

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Join scholars, activists and researchers for an online conference on the insights into Walter Rodney’s phenomenal political and intellectual legacy that still propels today’s pan-African struggles.

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ROAPE mourns the death of the Pan-Africanist intellectual, Thandika Mkandawire. ROAPE’s Issa Shivji, wrote a poem to celebrate the life of his friend and comrade ...

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To mark the 50th anniversary of revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, ROAPE will be re-posting a collection of essays paying tribute to #Cabral first published in the ROAPE journal in 1993. Here, we introduce the collection.

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Eugénie Rokhaya Aw, imprisoned under the regime of Léopold Senghor, was an active Senegalese left-wing activist. More than a year after her death, Aw's testimony sheds light on struggles of generations who fought imperialism after African independences.

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Come celebrate ROAPE's 50th Anniversary with the launch of the book: Voices for African Liberation: Conversations with the Review of African Political Economy with speaker @hakimadi1 - Friday 19 Apr 5-8PM at Pavillion, University of Westminster, W1W 6UW:

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The apparent miracle of democracy has fractured in Somaliland as conflict has divided the country. Jethro Norman writes that those in Washington, London & Brussels are oblivious to the problems caused by their own aid & investment strategies.

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Foreign aid and conflict in Somaliland - ROAPE

Foreign aid to Somaliland has fostered authoritarian rule and contributed towards conflict in the eastern city of Las Anod. In recent months, the apparent miracle of democracy has fractured as...

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More than half a century after Kwame Nkrumah first articulated his magisterial critique of neocolonialism, Scott Timcke argues his critique remains just as relevant in the analysis of present-day developments of capitalism in Africa.

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Ambreena Manji argues that we need a better understanding of home, labour and inequality in the pandemic. Focusing on the Global South, she argues that women have borne the brunt of the violence directed towards the homes of working people

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On this day in 1980, the Guyanese revolutionary Walter #Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana. Here, ROAPE's @chinchukwudinma celebrates Rodney’s revolutionary organising and focus on workers' power.

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Ambreena Manji writes how Kenya faces intractable land problems, including concentration of land in the hands of the rich. Kenya’s regimes of land ownership were first facilitated by a settler political economy but maintained in new forms today.

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For nearly fifty years, one figure has embodied revolutionary politics in Senegal: Omar Blondin Diop, who died in prison in 1973. Florian Bobin argues that his life, work and legacy reveals what revolutionary politics looks like in a neo-colonial state

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Omar Blondin Diop: Seeking Revolution in Senegal - ROAPE

On May 11, 1973, young Senegalese revolutionary philosopher Omar Blondin Diop died in detention under suspicious circumstances. Our understanding of liberation movements in Africa tends to focus on...

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In an analysis of the Wagner group in Africa, Graham Harrison argues that Western coverage on the group’s activities on the continent characterises it as a disrupter of Western-supported liberal sovereignties. Harrison exposes the nonsense.

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In this excerpt from his new book, @RadleyBen details a 3-stage historical process through which transnational corporations once again became the dominant force controlling African mining, across a far wider country group than during the colonial period.

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Biko Agozino argues that Karl Marx was among the few European theorists of his time who did not try to conceal his ‘debt’ to Africa but celebrated such knowledge as foundational. Marxism he argues is not a Eurocentric ideology.

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Karl Marx’s Debt to People of African Descent - ROAPE

In this blogpost, Biko Agozino argues that Karl Marx was among the few European theorists of his time who did not try to conceal his ‘debt’ to Africa but celebrated such knowledge as foundational....

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With Prince Harry acknowledging that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan, proves once again that #Monarchy and the British state are #imperialist warmongers. This piece survey's the crimes of the British empire and The Crown in Africa: #abolishthemonarchy

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ROAPE is delighted to announce its new publisher @Science_Open that from 2024 will make our journal available with no author fees, no paywalls, and equal access FOR ALL. In this interview, Managing Director @SDawsonBerlin introduces the organisation.

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This symposium seeks to reveal the invisible and forgotten history of left-wing movements in Africa. Such movements that emerged during the 1960s and 1970s in Africa are still largely unknown. We seek to address this lacuna...

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ROAPE’s Rama Salla Dieng interviews Adebayo Olukoshi on the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire. Olukoshi shares memories of how Thandika helped to shape development thinking in Africa and beyond ...

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Mikayla Tillery reviews Kevin Okoth's Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics,' exploring his critique of Afro-pessimism and misinterpretations of Franz Fanon. She highlights Okoth's emphasis on #Marxism as weapon for #decolonisation .

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Time to reclaim black revolutionary politics - ROAPE

Mikayla Tillery reviews Kevin Okoth's Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics. She delves into Okoth’s incisive critique of Afro-pessimism, Negritude, and the academic misinterpretations...

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Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) call for Black Power led to him becoming the leading symbol of black militancy in the 1960s. In an extract from a powerful new book, Becoming Kwame Ture, Amandla Thomas-Johnson looks at Carmichael’s move to Guinea.

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Historian @rhaplord shows how influential 19th century German philosopher Georg #Hegel deliberately ignored the richness & complexity of the #Asante kingdom, presenting it as backwards & barbaric in order to legitimate imperial expansion & colonial rule.

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How Hegel's Deliberate Ignorance of African History Legitimated the Colonisation of Africa - ROAPE

Isaac Samuel is an independent researcher whose work focuses on African history and economics. His prolific output on pre-colonial African history can be found on his blog AfricanHistoryExtra, which...

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Today is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney - please mark the day by pausing at 8pm EST, and finding out about Rodney's incredible legacy and life.

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