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CDS Bath @cdsbath.bsky.social · 9d

Check out our new walking tour app that celebrates Black histories in Bath, from the Roman Empire to the present day. The app has been developed by Bath academics at CDS with BEMSCA.
Learn more about the walk: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...
@devcomms.bsky.social @radleyben.bsky.social

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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.

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

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.…

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Sep 5

Or, to put it another way, DR #Congo - which provides around 3/4s of world cobalt supply - receives less than 0.6% of the value generated in the global electric vehicle value chain (much of which disappears overseas anyhow).

Source: ecfr.eu/publication/...

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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.

roape.net/2025/09/03/c...

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

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...

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jul 30

Excellent to see this out after a bit of work steering it through. Learnt a huge amount in the process about a context I knew little of before. Includes a slightly different but wonderful article on artistic engagement in resistance through poetry & song

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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

roape.net/2025/07/30/c...

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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

roape.net/2025/07/30/c...

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jul 28

Have written about this elsewhere but this idea that 'large-scale & small-scale mining operations can partner & flourish together' assumes small-scale happy to stay small. Risks cementing subordination of small (local/national) to large (typically foreign).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jul 24

The brilliant Farwa Sial on the growing role of private equity in the global South, writing for the Developing Economics blog:

developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/p...

Private Equity in the Global South: Locusts? Vampires? The contagion effect

The effectiveness of private equity has been a subject of ongoing debate in countries of the Global North. There is substantial evidence highlighting the extractive practices associated with privat…

developingeconomics.org

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jul 21

Keep an eye out for @roapejournal.bsky.social's upcoming Fanon special issue, due out in December 2025...

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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 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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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jul 17

A new working paper with @CynthKamwengo that hopefully provides some practical examples & ideas for how universities can decolonise, diversify, & update their social science curricula (& possible limits to these efforts):

purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · Jul 17

Dr Cynthia Kamwengo, Research Fellow @newnhamcollege.bsky.social and @radleyben.bsky.social have a new paper in Multiversum. Deconstructing and reconstructing African development studies through student engagement and cross-cultural collaboration at a UK university: www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jul 9

Today is the day. After weeks of the various distractions & disturbances that make up academic life, & the worry over a paper that's not moving forward, I have an entire day to write. And here I am, procrastinating, unable to write. Brilliant. Thanks brain.

Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ah that's great hope hope you enjoy it! Thanks Nat.

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jun 24

Staff or student at @uniofbath.bsky.social ? Coming to @devcomms.bsky.social‬ conference at #Bath this week? Download this new (& free!) walking tour app on Android & Apple that celebrates Black histories in the city, from the Roman Empire to the present day.

www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...

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NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) @nyucic.bsky.social · Jun 19

To learn about the history of the conflict, check out @radleyben.bsky.social‬ + Nicholas Fairwood’s @newleftreview.bsky.social‬ essay: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post....

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NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) @nyucic.bsky.social · Jun 13

💭 “To develop a deeper understanding of the unfolding tragedy [in the DRC], it is essential to acknowledge the enduring role of imperialism in producing such a vitiated Congolese state”—‬Nicholas Fairwood + @radleyben.bsky.social in a recent @newleftreview.bsky.social‬ blog.

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fantastic overview of the spread and scale of industrial activity in pre-colonial Africa, including textiles, shipbuilding, construction and glassworking. By Isaac Samuel.

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/historic-i...

Historic industries of pre-colonial Africa and the glassworkers of ancient Nubia

Significant strides have been made over the last decades in the study of the pre-colonial industries of Africa, especially regarding their emergence and the scale of production.

www.africanhistoryextra.com

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jun 12

Not everyday a yet-to-be-presented paper at @hetecon.bsky.social‬ conference makes @theguardian.com lead editorial

""Zambia’s economy is not being plundered by domestic actors but rather by transnational corporate practices"

Happy to have my ticket to this one

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Zambia’s Trumpian predicament: US aid cuts are dwarfed by a far bigger heist | Editorial

Editorial: As the US decries corruption, a paper suggests the real scandal is multinationals legally extracting billions from Africa’s resource-rich nation

www.theguardian.com

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NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) @nyucic.bsky.social · Jun 8

📑 Read the full @newleftreview.bsky.social‬ blog: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post....

➕ For a more expansive view, check out #NYUCIClass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#NYUCIC’s Senior Fellow @jasonkstearns.bsky.social‬’s recent essay: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post....

#NYUCIC #DRC

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NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) @nyucic.bsky.social · Jun 8

🤔 How has the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s position within the imperial order shaped its current conflict?

🔍 @radleyben.bsky.social‬ + Nicholas Fairwood analyze the conflict and the history of imperial intervention and interference in the country.

New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · May 9

'The DRC – born under Belgian colonial rule, remade as a Cold War theatre, now shaped by external financial flows – remains deprived of anything resembling real sovereignty.'

Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo:

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood, Colonial Legacies — Sidecar

Understanding the DRC.

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

In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book - Military #Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 - Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from #Africa’s Military Marxists.

roape.net/2025/06/04/t...

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks to Artur Colom for this generous review of Disrupted Development in the Congo.

"an important read for scholars of African political economy, policymakers
and anyone interested in the intersections of mining, development and global capitalism".

doi.org/10.1080/0225...

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · May 30

Well this is a conference next week I'd like to be at - 70 Years After Bandung: Challenges and Struggles on the Road to Self-Determination and South-South Solidarity - plus at the bottom an excellent looking list of authors and blogs on the topic.

www.networkideas.org/announcement...

www.networkideas.org

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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · May 28

Excited to join the radical Pan-African publishing collective Editor House Facility (EHF), which produces political, cultural & academic books by Africans, for the continent. Discover more about EHF and the services we offer here:

editorhousefacility.com/editorial-se...

Editorial services - Editor House Facility Uganda

If you have a PhD or book manuscript that requires editorial support for development and editing before submission to a […]

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