Review of African Political Economy

Article	Citations
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime	28
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	28
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	19
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region	18
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots	16
Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War	16
Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe	13
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg	12
Migration beyond capitalism	11
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	10
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s	9
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria	8
Africa Development	8
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	7
The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism	6
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers	6
Africa’s unequal balance	6
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	6
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies	5
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria	5
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation	4
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements	4
Ruth First Prize	4
Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo	4
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity	4

ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary	4
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa	4
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza	4
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3
How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta	3
The military in Zimbabwean politics	3
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt	3
Economic instrument or political tool? An assessment of the socioeconomic outcomes of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s 2022 currency redesign and cashless policy	3
Volume Index	3
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources	3
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta	3
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	3
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	3
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans	3
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources	3
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions	2
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	2
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	2
Correction	2
Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana	2
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship	2
Chinese capital and economic transformation in Africa: what has changed after Covid-19?	2
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?	2
Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria	2
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan	2
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique	2
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)	2
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism	2
The changing dynamics of Nigeria’s petroleum and politics	2
The climate emergency in Africa	2
The coloniality of biometric power: global digital empire, biometric state and the control of digital subjects in Nigeria	1
Overlying and muddled power: the Ciskei Bantustan’s disputed rural governance in the twilight decade of apartheid, c.1985–95	1
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis	1
Money, value and the state: sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa	1
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa	1
Improvement and change in rural Tanzania	1
Voices for African liberation: conversations with the Review of African Political Economy	1
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation	1
ROAPE: looking back to move forward	1
Workers, protests and trade unions in Africa	1
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo	1
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain	1
Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia	1
Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–2021	1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	1
The political economy of the climate crisis in Southern Africa	1
Exploitation, patriarchy and petty commodity production: class, gender and neocolonialism in rural eastern Uganda	1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	1
Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania	1

Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	1
Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership): understanding the persistence of unfree Fulani labour and the (non)violent renegotiation of power relations in agrarian economies in northern Ghana	1
Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013	1
Imperialism and labour: why global migration governance is unnecessary and why it works	1
Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue	1
What is a resource for the people of Western Sahara? A historical synthesis of a socio-territorial issue	1
‘This is like Guadalajara’: politics, identity and the management of natural resources in late colonial Spanish Sahara	1
The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on	1
Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article	0
Engaged and insurgent scholarship: a reflection	0
Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Africa’s deferred liberation	0
Financialisation, narrow specialisation of production and capital accumulation in Mozambique	0
ROAPE at 50: Envisaging praxis and engaged scholarship in African political economy	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal	0
Clearing a path to academia: a tribute to Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Frantz Fanon, Kenya’s anti-colonial rebellion and the role of the working class	0
Coups and neo-colonialism	0
‘Go south’: union organising in the 21st century	0
Volume Index	0
Lungisile Ntsebeza: a community-engaged scholar in the struggle to build the voice and agency of the rural poor	0
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving	0
An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’	0
Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency	0
An inquiry of Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution in South Africa: reclaiming its value for organisational perspectives	0
The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique	0
The political economy of Frantz Fanon’s concept of sociogeny	0
Hobsbawm on rebellion in the postcolony: the political economy of armed conflicts in Northern Nigeria	0
‘They’re our resources!’ A new frame in the struggle for the liberation of the Sahrawi people	0
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice	0
Tanzania’s solidarity tax	0
Crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum’s scramble for mining rights, 1995–2019	0
Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique	0
Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity	0
‘I am not a prisoner of history’: Frantz Fanon, temporal defiance, and the critique of colonial time	0
ROAPE at 50: A platform for the people, by the people	0
A scholar in struggle	0
Development of the Blue Economy concept in Eastern Africa: strategic frameworks and a simmering conflict	0
Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system	0
Breaking the North–South divide? Reflections on the 2024 Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order	0
North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming	0
The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections	0
Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia	0
Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa	0
ROAPE at 50: The Review of African Political Economy and Marxism	0
Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency	0
The crisis of French imperialism: debating military coups in Africa	0
‘Grounding together’ or digging movements into the ground? South African scholar-activism 30 years after democracy	0
ROAPE at 50: It took a village to help me publish my first blog on Roape.net	0
The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique	0
Tributes on ROAPE’s 50th anniversary	0
Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders?	0
African football migration: aspirations, experiences and trajectories	0
Imperialism and Africa	0
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda	0
Class, politics and dynamic accumulation processes around the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, 2005–2014	0
Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa	0
Capitalist development and land struggles in Africa: the role of engaged scholarship	0
Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place	0
Prishani Naidoo: a beautifully diverse, radical and principled tapestry of life, thought and struggle	0
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria	0
No smiling for Algerian workers: explaining the modest harvest of the labour movement during the Hirak	0
Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia: countering attempts to silence alternative voices	0
Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers	0
ROAPE at 50: The review in a changing world	0
Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana	0
Lungisile Ntsebeza, my teacher and my student	0
The role of subordinate financialisation in Egypt’s employment crisis	0
Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective	0
Africa and permanent (global) wars	0
Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve	0
Africa’s lion economies and their gendered impacts: lessons from Asia	0
‘Where wealth and power and blood (still) reign as worshipped gods!’ A farewell to Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Zimbabwe 1995–2000: rereading Gramsci’s organic intellectual in contemporary working-class struggles	0
‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa	0
Climate catastrophe: the struggle continues	0
The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, ‘solutions’ and resistance	0

Global historical materialism and decoloniality	0
Eritrea’s foreign festivals: clashes within the exile community	0
Send more guns: Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget plan for Africa	0
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	0
Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage	0
Traditional authority, democracy and protected areas: a quandary for African states	0
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa	0
Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa	0
Debt as a political technology: rubber, Firestone and the temporalities of settler colonialism in Liberia	0
Elections, constituency consultation and political representation in Boko Haram-affected areas in Nigeria	0
(Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan	0
Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies	0
Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa	0
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes	0
Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia	0
The return of recession, debt and structural adjustment	0
Evolving and differentiated strategy? A network approach to understand Chinese development finance	0
The role of the public intellectual in higher education in South Africa: the socially engaged research scholarship of Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency	0
Knowledge production for liberation: the Review of African Political Economy 50 years on	0
Misrepresenting livestock and crisis in the Horn: a response to Duffield and Stockton	0
Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso	0
ROAPE at 50: ROAPE and Zimbabwe: an appreciation	0
John Saul, 4 May 1938–23 September 2023	0
A response to Thompson and Mohamed’s accusation of being ‘dead wrong’	0
The climate emergency in Africa	0
Bilateral trade and politico-administrative border relations in Africa: an analysis of the case of Nigeria and Benin Republic	0