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We need community policing in Nigeria - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 3d

In her review of "Community Policing in Nigeria", Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police has always served the ruling class, not the people. She says the book offers a much-needed model of community-policing for #Nigerians still reeling from #EndSARS.

In her review of Community Policing in Nigeria by Emmanuel Onyeozili, Biko Agozino, Augustine Agu, and Patrick Ibe, Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police, from its colonial…

Climate Negotiations in the Age of Warmongering, Militarism and Failed Multilateralism - ROAPE

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ARM @ahuman1.bsky.social · 4d

This a long article but I would recommend that people who care about Africa should have a read. It explains a lot.

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 4d

“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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 4d

“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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 6d

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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 12d

Kola Ibrahim argues that climate justice movements must look beyond much-hyped climate negotiations to challenge the dominant capitalist interests driving imperialist warmongering & climate breakdown.

#COP30 #ClimateAction

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Climate activist and author Kola Ibrahim connects the necolonial structure of climate finance to growing militarism and fading multilateralism. Drawing on Israel's ongoing, genocidal destruction of th...

(PDF) Wallerstein after ’68: Marxism and the Making of The Modern World-System

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Sam Chian @utopistician.bsky.social · 26d

📝 My new article on Immanuel Wallerstein is out in Journal of World-Systems Research. It builds on my earlier piece for @roapejournal.bsky.social and examines how Marxism shaped The Modern World-System.

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PDF | This article examines the intellectual foundations of Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis, focusing on the formative period of the late... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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ARM @ahuman1.bsky.social · 14d

Every African should have a read.

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 14d

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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 14d

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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 26d

In her blog, Mxhalisa shows how capitalism now commodifies its own waste. This shift creates an exploited “counter-productive labour” engaged in waste picking activities in a rotten system hellbent on producing more rubbish than goods for profit. #climatechange #globalwarming

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Let them eat plastic! - ROAPE

In her thought-provoking blog, Celiwe Mxhalisa shines light on how capitalism has moved beyond exploiting natural resources to commodifying its own waste and pollution. This shift has created a new…

Amílcar Cabral’s life, legacy and reluctant nationalism – an interview with António Tomás - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Sep 12

101 years ago today, Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary leader of Guinea Bissau, was born. To mark his birthday we are resharing an interview with his biographer António Tomás, author of Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist.

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As the month of September mark 101 birthday of Amilcar Cabral, we repost an interview with António Tomás, who wrote Cabral’s biography in the 21st century. Tomás speaks about Cabral’s political…

The new face of imperialism in Africa - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Oppong discusses the new #imperialism in #Africa. He sees it as a process of fierce competition between old and new imperial powers, manipulating Africa's corrupt elite. This new scramble sustained by hypocrisy, geopolitics, and African underdevelopment.

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Caleb Oppong paints a damning picture of the new scramble for Africa unfolding in the 21st century. He sees it as a process characterised by fierce competition between old and emerging imperial…

How South Africa’s Taxi Recapitalisation Programme deepens precarity and workers' resistance - ROAPE

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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.…

Colin Stoneman on liberation struggle in Zimbabwe and ROAPE's radical origins - ROAPE

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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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...

IT'S SHUTDOWN TIME - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

We inform our readers and supporters that we are embarking on our summer shutdown from August 11 to 29 on our website and social media. Thank you very much for your understanding. Please check out our most recent articles!

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ROAPE believes it is not enough for us to preach a radical anti-neoliberal politics and not practice or attempt to develop an alternative work ethic to neoliberal capitalism in our work on the…

‘When I was a student of Fanon’: an interview with Frej Stambouli - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

In celebration of Fanon's centenary, we repost an interview with the Tunisian sociologist, Frej Stambouli who remembers his teacher #FrantzFanon. Stambouli considers Fanon’s legacy and his anger, reason and kindness, recalling, ‘I will never forget the generosity of Fanon’.

In celebration of the Fanon's centenary, we repost a interview with the Tunisian sociologist, Frej Stambouli who remembers his teacher Frantz Fanon. Stambouli describes Fanon’s lectures at the…

Exploring Africa's Role in the International Organization for Mediation (IOMed): African Solutions with a Chinese Touch? - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Chimdessa Fekadu Tsega discusses the role of Africa in a China-led initiative for conflict resolution, exploring its aims, prospects and challenges as well as questions Africa might need to confront
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In this piece, Chimdessa Fekadu Tsega provides some insights on the aims, functions, prospects and even questions regarding a new organisation, known as the International Organisation for Mediation…

Sleeping beauty and the masses – Fanon’s class analysis of the postcolony - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jul 23

To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100
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In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial…

Peter Lawrence’s radical journey from ROAPE co-founder to committed socialist - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jul 20

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"

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

In part 2 of his interview, ROAPE's Peter Lawrence reflects on his early engagement with #ROAPE journal, Eurocommunism, his travels through Hungary, East Germany, and Uganda, as well as his perspective on development economics.

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In the second instalment of a two-part interview, Chinedu Chukwudinma speaks with Peter Lawrence, founding editor of ROAPE. Lawrence reflects on his early involvement with the ROAPE journal, his…

Youthquake – How Kenya’s Gen Z Took on IMF Austerity - ROAPE

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 1

She was joined by Joey Kok(African Studies), Justin Pearce(@jsas-journal.bsky.social)‬, Bettina Engels(@roapejournal.bsky.social‬), George Bob-Milliar(African Affairs) & Stephanie Rudwick(Modern Africa) for a roundtable discussion on how publishers can address asymmetries in knowledge production.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jun 28

#BlackSky #Kenya

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jun 25

As #Kenya marks the first anniversary of the anti-austerity, anti-IMF, anti-Ruto uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played by GenZ
#occupyparliament #RutoMustGo

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As Kenya marks the first anniversary of the uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played by Generation Z. He explains how the youth’s…

Peter Lawrence’s radical journey from ROAPE co-founder to committed socialist - ROAPE

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

In part 2 of his interview, ROAPE's Peter Lawrence reflects on his early engagement with #ROAPE journal, Eurocommunism, his travels through Hungary, East Germany, and Uganda, as well as his perspective on development economics.

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In the second instalment of a two-part interview, Chinedu Chukwudinma speaks with Peter Lawrence, founding editor of ROAPE. Lawrence reflects on his early involvement with the ROAPE journal, his…