Review of African Political Economy
@roapejournal.bsky.social
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/
Pinned
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
In this powerful blog piece, community organizer Njeri Mwangi shares her activist experience with the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Kenya, reflecting on how the centre transformed itself through the courage of communities refusing to normalize violence and poverty.
roape.net/2026/02/11/r...
roape.net/2026/02/11/r...
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
In this powerful blog piece, community organizer Njeri Mwangi shares her activist experience with the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Kenya, reflecting on how the centre transformed itself through the courage of communities refusing to normalize violence and poverty.
roape.net/2026/02/11/r...
roape.net/2026/02/11/r...
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
In a few weeks' time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms.bsky.social[email protected] webinar about green imperialism in #Congo 🇨🇩, drawing on some of the ideas I wrote on the topic a few years ago (www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...).
You can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...
You can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
In a few weeks' time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms.bsky.social[email protected] webinar about green imperialism in #Congo 🇨🇩, drawing on some of the ideas I wrote on the topic a few years ago (www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...).
You can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...
You can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...
Did Frantz Fanon really have nothing to say about political economy? In ROAPE's #Fanon special issue Peter Hudis argues otherwise, uncovering Fanon’s Marxian insights into labour, socialism, and democratic liberation.
buff.ly/jIjmwko
buff.ly/jIjmwko
The political economy of Frantz Fanon’s concept of sociogeny - ROAPE
In his contribution to ROAPE’s special issue on Frantz Fanon, Peter Hudis challenges the widespread claim that Fanon had little to say about the Marxian critique of political economy. He does so by…
roape.net
February 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Did Frantz Fanon really have nothing to say about political economy? In ROAPE's #Fanon special issue Peter Hudis argues otherwise, uncovering Fanon’s Marxian insights into labour, socialism, and democratic liberation.
buff.ly/jIjmwko
buff.ly/jIjmwko
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.
🇨🇩 🤝 🇺🇸
roape.net/2026/02/04/t...
🇨🇩 🤝 🇺🇸
roape.net/2026/02/04/t...
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.
🇨🇩 🤝 🇺🇸
roape.net/2026/02/04/t...
🇨🇩 🤝 🇺🇸
roape.net/2026/02/04/t...
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and wo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberalism. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent.
buff.ly/MevrIVm
buff.ly/MevrIVm
Neoliberalism and race: a love story - ROAPE
Lars Cornelissen offers an extract from his recent book Neoliberalism and Race, which argues that race functions as an organising principle of neoliberal ideology. Drawing on intellectual history and…
roape.net
January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
In Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberalism. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent.
buff.ly/MevrIVm
buff.ly/MevrIVm
In this piece, Abdoulie Kurang offers a postcolonial critique of so-called modernity, which positions the West as the ‘civilised’ and ‘civilising’ entity, and the African elite who feeds (on) it.
roape.net/2026/01/28/t...
roape.net/2026/01/28/t...
The Belated Africans: A Postcolonial Critique of Modernity - ROAPE
Modernity – and the modernization-inflected theories of development – rest upon long standing binary constructions of human societies. These binaries generate a hierarchical contrast between the “West...
roape.net
January 28, 2026 at 9:17 AM
In this piece, Abdoulie Kurang offers a postcolonial critique of so-called modernity, which positions the West as the ‘civilised’ and ‘civilising’ entity, and the African elite who feeds (on) it.
roape.net/2026/01/28/t...
roape.net/2026/01/28/t...
Muriam Haleh Davis revisits post-independence Algerian debates on Frantz Fanon in her briefing for ROAPE’s Fanon special issue. Focusing on leftist responses to Fanon’s views on the peasantry and communism, she shows why his work remained central after independence.
buff.ly/0abvmoe
buff.ly/0abvmoe
‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962 - ROAPE
In her insightful briefing for ROAPE's Fanon special issue, Muriam Haleh Davis revisits Algerian debates on the writings of Frantz Fanon in the years following independence. It focuses on how…
roape.net
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Muriam Haleh Davis revisits post-independence Algerian debates on Frantz Fanon in her briefing for ROAPE’s Fanon special issue. Focusing on leftist responses to Fanon’s views on the peasantry and communism, she shows why his work remained central after independence.
buff.ly/0abvmoe
buff.ly/0abvmoe
Find all the new content posted to roape.net between October & December 2025. Want this quarterly website update to your inbox, along with new journal issue content updates? Sign up at the top our our website
mailchi.mp/88867d588463...
mailchi.mp/88867d588463...
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Find all the new content posted to roape.net between October & December 2025. Want this quarterly website update to your inbox, along with new journal issue content updates? Sign up at the top our our website
mailchi.mp/88867d588463...
mailchi.mp/88867d588463...
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.
roape.net/2026/01/21/t...
roape.net/2026/01/21/t...
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.
roape.net/2026/01/21/t...
roape.net/2026/01/21/t...
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
"From the outset the movement took political education—seen as a process of mutual learning— seriously.
There was an immediate and strong interest in Frantz Fanon. And while not initially inspired by Paulo Freire, Freire was later taken up."
#SouthAfrica #Fanon #PoliticalEducation #Community
There was an immediate and strong interest in Frantz Fanon. And while not initially inspired by Paulo Freire, Freire was later taken up."
#SouthAfrica #Fanon #PoliticalEducation #Community
For ROAPE's special issue celebrating Frantz #Fanon100, Richard Pithouse interviews Mqapheli Bonono of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Bonono discusses how the shack dwellers built the Frantz Fanon School amid evictions, assassinations, and state repression.
buff.ly/DB5nHbj
buff.ly/DB5nHbj
Building the Frantz Fanon School: an interview with Mqapheli Bonono - ROAPE
We share Richard Pithouse’s monumental interview with Mqapheli Bonono, the current deputy president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, conducted for ROAPE’s special issue 186 celebrating the Frantz Fanon…
roape.net
January 19, 2026 at 11:56 AM
"From the outset the movement took political education—seen as a process of mutual learning— seriously.
There was an immediate and strong interest in Frantz Fanon. And while not initially inspired by Paulo Freire, Freire was later taken up."
#SouthAfrica #Fanon #PoliticalEducation #Community
There was an immediate and strong interest in Frantz Fanon. And while not initially inspired by Paulo Freire, Freire was later taken up."
#SouthAfrica #Fanon #PoliticalEducation #Community
For ROAPE's special issue celebrating Frantz #Fanon100, Richard Pithouse interviews Mqapheli Bonono of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Bonono discusses how the shack dwellers built the Frantz Fanon School amid evictions, assassinations, and state repression.
buff.ly/DB5nHbj
buff.ly/DB5nHbj
Building the Frantz Fanon School: an interview with Mqapheli Bonono - ROAPE
We share Richard Pithouse’s monumental interview with Mqapheli Bonono, the current deputy president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, conducted for ROAPE’s special issue 186 celebrating the Frantz Fanon…
roape.net
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM
For ROAPE's special issue celebrating Frantz #Fanon100, Richard Pithouse interviews Mqapheli Bonono of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Bonono discusses how the shack dwellers built the Frantz Fanon School amid evictions, assassinations, and state repression.
buff.ly/DB5nHbj
buff.ly/DB5nHbj
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture
bsky.app/profile/roap...
bsky.app/profile/roap...
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 3:11 PM
Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture
bsky.app/profile/roap...
bsky.app/profile/roap...
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...
roape.net/2026/01/14/i...
January 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
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.
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
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.
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
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.
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
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.
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
buff.ly/Z0KqSH3
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
Special issue of ROAPE. Christopher J Lee, one of the issue's co-editors/introducers was one of my best follows on old twitter. #Fanon100.
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 9:22 AM
Special issue of ROAPE. Christopher J Lee, one of the issue's co-editors/introducers was one of my best follows on old twitter. #Fanon100.
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
This special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!
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 10:18 AM
This special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
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
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
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
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
Reposted by Review of African Political Economy
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
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