Review of African Political Economy

Western Sahara: the law of the strongest returns to the UN - ROAPE Yahia H. Zoubir and Abdelkader Abderrahmane argue that by yielding to Western pressure over Western Sahara, the United Nations has abandoned the principle of self-determination, subordinating…

Yahia H. Zoubir & Abdelkader Abderrahmane argue that Resolution 2797 (2025) grants Western Sahara limited self-rule under Moroccan sovereignty, sidelining the UN’s commitment to self-determination in favor of powerful Western states.

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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.

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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...).

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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…

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.

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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.

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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...

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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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…

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.

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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...

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.

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‘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…

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.
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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.

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"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."

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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…

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.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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!

To read: *Frantz Fanon at 100*

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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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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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Racial time: The whiteness of the ‘glorious past’ in Tunisian popular histories - ROAPE Shreya examines how popular narratives of Tunisia’s “glorious past,” particularly in La Goulette, celebrate colonial-era coexistence by centering white or white-passing European communities while…

Shreya Parikh examines how popular narratives of Tunisia’s “glorious past,” particularly in La Goulette, celebrate colonial-era coexistence by centering white or white-passing European communities while erasing indigenous, Amazigh, and Black presences.

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Aymen Amayed reports on a recent international conference in Tunis that assembled leading critical analysts of imperialism and class struggle in the global South, including Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik, Sami Zemni, Ali Kadri & Paris Yeros.

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