Review of African Political Economy

Article	Citations
Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency	19
Dependency in a financialised global economy	16
Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies	14
Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve	12
Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin	12
Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	12
The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation	11
Covid-19 containment policies in Nigeria: the role of conflictual federal–state relations in the fight against the pandemic	10
Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania	9
Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013	9
Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution	9
Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso	8
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis	8
Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy	8
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	7
Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class	7
Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin	6
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	5
Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers	5
Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala	5
Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy	5
Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood	4
Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states?	4
When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa	4
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	4

Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa	4
East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too?	4
Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda	4
Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015	4
Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa	4
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	3
The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique	3
Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria	3
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	3
Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies	3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3
Coups and neo-colonialism	3
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda	3
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo	2
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	2
‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa	2
The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets	2
Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective	2
Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa	2
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	2
Cooperatives and the reorganisation of labour-intensive production in South Africa’s clothing industry	2
Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia	2
Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system	2
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain	2
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	2
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa	2
Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage	2
Rebuilding hegemony: passive revolution, state transformation and South Africa’s steel sector	2
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation	2
Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria	1
Janus-faced presidents: extroverted and introverted politics in oil-age Niger	1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	1
Samir Amin and Eastern Europe	1
North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming	1
Clearing a path to academia: a tribute to Lungisile Ntsebeza	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
Extractivism, informal work and strategies for political-economic transformation	1
Financialisation, narrow specialisation of production and capital accumulation in Mozambique	1
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving	1
Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana	1
Lungisile Ntsebeza, my teacher and my student	1
Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia	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
Imperialism and labour: why global migration governance is unnecessary and why it works	1
The role of subordinate financialisation in Egypt’s employment crisis	1
Development of the Blue Economy concept in Eastern Africa: strategic frameworks and a simmering conflict	1
Class, politics and dynamic accumulation processes around the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, 2005–2014	1
The return of recession, debt and structural adjustment	1

The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing	1
‘Grounding together’ or digging movements into the ground? South African scholar-activism 30 years after democracy	1
Extractive capitalism and hard and soft power in the age of Black Lives Matter	1
Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia	1
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa	1
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: a threat to the means of livelihood of artisanal fishers in South South region, Nigeria	1
The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism	1
The gender of dependency theory: women as workers, from neocolonialism in West Africa to the implosion of contemporary capitalism	1
Climate catastrophe: the struggle continues	1
The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique	1
Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity	1
The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike	0
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime	0
Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia	0
Contested compensation: the politics, economics and legal nuances of compensating white former commercial farmers in Zimbabwe	0
The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state	0
An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’	0
Ethiopia in theory: revolution and knowledge production, 1964–2016	0
Ruth First Prize	0
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
ROAPE at 50: The review in a changing world	0
Knowledge production for liberation: the Review of African Political Economy 50 years on	0
Correction	0
John Saul, 4 May 1938–23 September 2023	0
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements	0
Exploitation, patriarchy and petty commodity production: class, gender and neocolonialism in rural eastern Uganda	0
The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls	0
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
(Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan	0
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)	0
Capitalism, resources and inequality in a climate emergency	0
Tanzania’s solidarity tax	0
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria	0
Traditional authority, democracy and protected areas: a quandary for African states	0
Ruth First Prize	0
Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War	0
Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia: countering attempts to silence alternative voices	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Tributes on ROAPE’s 50th anniversary	0
ROAPE at 50: Envisaging praxis and engaged scholarship in African political economy	0
Engaged and insurgent scholarship: a reflection	0
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	0
No smiling for Algerian workers: explaining the modest harvest of the labour movement during the Hirak	0
The military in Zimbabwean politics	0
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique	0
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	0
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans	0
The role of the public intellectual in higher education in South Africa: the socially engaged research scholarship of Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Bendix and Ndlovu-Gatsheni in dialogue: conceptualising the (de)colonial, knowledge and development	0
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region	0
Africa Development	0
Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article	0
Class, work and whiteness: race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79	0
The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, ‘solutions’ and resistance	0
Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue	0
Volume Index	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Staking a claim: law, inequality and the city in South Africa	0
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism	0
Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal	0
Lungisile Ntsebeza: a community-engaged scholar in the struggle to build the voice and agency of the rural poor	0
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship	0
The crisis of French imperialism: debating military coups in Africa	0
Eritrea’s foreign festivals: clashes within the exile community	0
The climate emergency in Africa	0
Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique	0
Battle for legitimacy: revisiting autochthony and (re)invented authority in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	0
Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir	0
Volume Index	0
Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders?	0
Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–2021	0
Capitalist development and land struggles in Africa: the role of engaged scholarship	0
Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency	0
Financialisation of politics: the political economy of Egypt’s counterrevolution	0
Seeking social justice in crisis: socio-economic rights and citizenship in post-2000 Zimbabwe	0
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes	0
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies	0
ROAPE at 50: A platform for the people, by the people	0
ROAPE at 50: The Review of African Political Economy and Marxism	0

Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving	0
ROAPE: looking back to move forward	0
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria	0
Elections, constituency consultation and political representation in Boko Haram-affected areas in Nigeria	0
Hobsbawm on rebellion in the postcolony: the political economy of armed conflicts in Northern Nigeria	0
Political protest in contemporary Kenya: change and continuities	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency	0
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria	0
Bilateral trade and politico-administrative border relations in Africa: an analysis of the case of Nigeria and Benin Republic	0
Volume Index	0
How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan	0
The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on	0
Imperialism and Africa	0
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?	0
Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe	0
Overlying and muddled power: the Ciskei Bantustan’s disputed rural governance in the twilight decade of apartheid, c.1985–95	0
An inquiry of Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution in South Africa: reclaiming its value for organisational perspectives	0
Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Improvement and change in rural Tanzania	0
Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence	0
Land and the limits of liberal legalism: property, transitional justice and non-reformist reforms in post-apartheid South Africa	0
Africa’s unequal balance	0
‘More than a million’: the politics of accounting for the dead of the Rwandan genocide	0
The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections	0
Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Africa’s lion economies and their gendered impacts: lessons from Asia	0
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa	0
Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa	0
‘Where wealth and power and blood (still) reign as worshipped gods!’ A farewell to Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg	0
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary	0
ROAPE at 50: ROAPE and Zimbabwe: an appreciation	0
ROAPE at 50: It took a village to help me publish my first blog on Roape.net	0
Send more guns: Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget plan for Africa	0
A scholar in struggle	0
Global historical materialism and decoloniality	0
Migration beyond capitalism	0