Ethan Woolf Moñino argues that bandit groups in Nigeria have built an alternative economic system that extracts revenue through territorial control and systematic taxation filling a vacuum created by the government's failure to provide basic services. roape.net/2026/04/15/n...
Eyob Balcha Gebremariam argues that today’s global disorder stems from intensified Eurocentrism, hypocrisy and racism of the West, which shapes international narratives and conflicts in self-serving ways.
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To mark the recent passing of Rupert Roopnaraine, one of Walter Rodney’s closest comrades in the Working People’s Alliance of Guyana, ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig delivers an honest obituary reflecting on his life, political commitments, and the complexities of his legacy.
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Drawing on Marxist political economy, Siyabulela Christopher Fobosi argues that the after-robot command within South Africa’s minibus taxi industry constitutes a form of labour discipline that reflects deeper structural contradictions of informal capitalism.
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To mark the birth of Walter Rodney (23 March 1942), we share an article from ROAPE’s special issue 186 on Frantz Fanon by @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social and Baindu Kallon that examines the shifting imprint of The Wretched of the Earth on Rodney’s anti-imperialism.
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Indispensable reading by Rama Salla Dieng on concurrent crises in Senegal, fabricated at home and abroad, that led to the recent anti-LGBTQ law.
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I am pleased to share my last article: “Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis: Patriarchy, anti-gender backlash & the postcolonial carceral state”on the blog of the Review of African Political Economy roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
On 12 March, Senegal’s National Assembly voted to raise same-sex relations sentence to 10 years & to criminalise “promotion” or “apology” of homosexuality. Writing for roape.net, Rama Salla Dieng argues against those who hail this as an act of African self-determination.
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Following Cameroon’s October 2025 presidential elections, in which 92 year-old Paul Biya secured another victory extending his 43-year rule by seven years, Divine Ndansi answers why elections have repeatedly failed to advance democratisation in the country.
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In this piece, Prince Ifoh argues that re-reading Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah, and Achille Mbembe allows us to see how digital capitalism reconfigures rather break with Africa’s history of underdevelopment.
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this amazing interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2021).
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While many have been quick to draw parallels, ROAPE’s Bettina Engels urges caution in seeing Burkina Faso's 🇧🇫 President Ibrahim Traoré simply as Thomas Sankara reborn. Alongside certain similarities, Engels argues that striking differences also exist.
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Anti-imperialism and solidarity come in many forms. This week, we share with our readers the activities of an anti-imperialist reading group in France organised by Lignes Anti-Impérialistes .
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In this interview with Florian Bobin & Amadou Kébé, Momodou Taal connects the Palestinian struggle to a longer history of Black, African & anti-imperial resistance. For him, the path is clear: “the future is Pan-Africanism & transnational solidarity.”
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In this piece, Sarah Cotte explores the political economy of the Gulf involvement in Africa, looking specifically at land investments, stressing that the Gulf states in their new ‘scramble for Africa’ should be categorised as sub-imperialist.
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In this piece, Sarah Cotte explores the political economy of the Gulf involvement in Africa, looking specifically at land investments, stressing that the Gulf states in their new ‘scramble for Africa’ should be categorised as sub-imperialist.
In this piece, Sarah Cotte explores the political economy of the Gulf involvement in Africa, looking specifically at land investments, stressing that the Gulf states in their new ‘scramble for Africa’ should be categorised as sub-imperialist.
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato interviews Colin Leys about his new book Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya, exploring the threads that connect a family story to empire’s long shadow.
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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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You can download this Peter Hudis' article and the whole #Fanon special issue for free here: buff.ly/90T41nE
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 (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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