Ben Radley

Opposing genocide in the twenty-first century: an interview with Momodou Taal - ROAPE Has opposing genocide become a threat to public safety? At a time when imperial offensives no longer bother to cloak themselves in justificatory rhetoric, doctoral student and activist Momodou Taal is...

A powerful interview and testimony from Momodou Taal in @roapejournal.bsky.social, kicked out of the US for his pro-Palestine activism, connecting the Palestinian struggle to a longer history of Black, African and anti-imperial resistance

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ust a reminder that I'll be talking on green imperialism in the Congo tomorrow at 1PM GMT as part of a @devcomms.bsky.social & @eadi.bsky.social webinar series. The link to register for the event can be found below...

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DSA-EADI Working Group Webinar Series 2026: Talk by @radleyben.bsky.social about the dynamics of green imperialism in the Congo.
📅 26 February 2026
@eadi.bsky.social

Find out more and sign up here: buff.ly/Yyy13jm

In a few weeks' time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms.bsky.social-@eadi.bsky.social 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:

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In a few weeks time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms
-@EADI
webinar about the dynamics of green imperialism in #Congo 🇨🇩, drawing on some of the ideas in a paper I wrote on the topic a few years ago (scienceopen.com/hosted-documen
t?doi=10.1080/03056244.2023.2277616
).

You can sign up here:

The price of peace: US strategy and the DRC’s critical minerals - ROAPE Antonia Baumgartner argues that behind the promise of peace, a set of recent US-backed agreements have reshaped how the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s minerals, infrastructure, and political choic...

Some important analysis in @ROAPEjournal on how recent DRC-US agreements tie Kinshasa to Washington's strategic priorities, coming the day after Glencore announced it's selling 40% stake in its DRC copper & cobalt mines to a US government-backed group.

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Registration is open for the 1st webinar on 26 February!

"Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo", with @radleyben.bsky.social
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Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture

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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.

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Our 2025 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals

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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:

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#Fanon100

@roapejournal.bsky.social ending 2025 with a bang!

A new special issue on the revolutionary Frantz #Fanon (1925–1961) stuffed full of contributions that critically reflect on his life & legacy.

#Fanon100: class struggle and the future of African liberation

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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥

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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.

#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

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…

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

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In an update from our post about Nigerian government arrests, imprisonements and torture from last year, the Abuja 11 finally get justice. Maxwell Adeyemi reports.

#Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11

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We also recently ran a full special issue on Western Sahara - 'Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources' - which you can find here www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...

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Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice - ROAPE ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal

ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal, with an editorial: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice 🔥 🔥 🔥

Thelma Arko & Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action.

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How the UN betrayed the decolonisation of Western Sahara - ROAPE Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi…

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.”
— Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961.

🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥

#Fanon100

Thanks to @sulaimanij.bsky.social for this invite to talk about Congo, mining & the global energy transition for @energyrevolution.bsky.social. Perhaps of interest to some.

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Ben Radley explains why Congo sits at the centre of the energy transition, supplying over two-thirds of global cobalt and major copper for electrification. #EnergyTransition #Cobalt #Copper #CleanEnergy

New @roapejournal.bsky.social journal issue out, great stuff including an interview & reflections with the magnificent Issa Shivji

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Shaun Milton reviews Saima Ndahangwapo’s new book Defending the Investment about uranium mining in Namibia, arguing it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of decolonisation in Africa.

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Guerrilla History: Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley (AR&D Ep.10) With this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you another fascinating episode in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization.  This time, a big episode on mining in Congo - extraction, e...

As part of @guerrilla_pod's African revolutions & decolonisation series, Henry Hakamäki spoke w. Josaphat Musamba, Prof Germain Tshibambe & myself about mining in Congo. History, environmental & economic impacts, nuances etc.

2 1/2 hours!

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Swaziland under the Mswati–Taiwan–Israel alliance: an ongoing struggle - ROAPE Writing in response to a blog post published on roape.net in May 2025, Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the broader historical processes of political, economic and social failure in Eswatini that have led ...

Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the historical processes of political, economic & social failure in #Eswatini that have led the Communist Party of #Swaziland to declare 2025 the Year of Mass Mobilisation for the Insurrectionary Seizure of Power.

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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...
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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.…

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.

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).

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