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Papers

(The median citation count of Review of African Political Economy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime	39
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	14
The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa	13
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region	12
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots	10
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	9
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg	9
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s	7
A radical supplement: Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire	6
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria	6
Africa Development	6
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers	5
Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo	5
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary	5
Africa’s unequal balance	5
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies	5
The limits of Marxist-Leninism and the democratic ecosocialist alternative	4
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation	4
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity	4
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa	4
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements	4
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria	4
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	3
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza	3
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	3

He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	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
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt	3
Correction	2
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources	2
The military in Zimbabwean politics	2
The changing dynamics of Nigeria’s petroleum and politics	2
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources	2
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism	2
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?	2
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans	2
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta	2
‘We’ve got the state. Where’s the power?’: debilitating contradictions in the South African Communist Party’s state leadership since 1994	2
Chinese capital and economic transformation in Africa: what has changed after Covid-19?	1
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)	1
The coloniality of biometric power: global digital empire, biometric state and the control of digital subjects in Nigeria	1
Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania	1
What is a resource for the people of Western Sahara? A historical synthesis of a socio-territorial issue	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
‘This is like Guadalajara’: politics, identity and the management of natural resources in late colonial Spanish Sahara	1
ROAPE: looking back to move forward	1
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	1
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique	1
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship	1
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan	1
Challenging ‘conventional agriculture’: assessing the evolution and development of the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers’ Forum as a social movement organisation	1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	1
Situating the oil contradiction on a global scale: the case of modern Libya (1951–1980s)	1
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis	1
Overlying and muddled power: the Ciskei Bantustan’s disputed rural governance in the twilight decade of apartheid, c.1985–95	1
‘We are building a new and better society’: prefigurative strategies for building socialism today – the legacies of Ruth First and Matthew Goniwe	1
The shifting influence of Frantz Fanon on Walter Rodney’s anti-imperialism (1968–1978)	1
The climate emergency in Africa	1
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions	1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	1
Voices for African liberation: conversations with the Review of African Political Economy	1
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo	1
Exploitation, patriarchy and petty commodity production: class, gender and neocolonialism in rural eastern Uganda	1
Workers, protests and trade unions in Africa	1
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving	0
Clearing a path to academia: a tribute to Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Everyday strategies of debt resistance: the case of fintech in Nigeria	0
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa	0
Misrepresenting livestock and crisis in the Horn: a response to Duffield and Stockton	0
ROAPE at 50: Envisaging praxis and engaged scholarship in African political economy	0
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice	0
Capitalist development and land struggles in Africa: the role of engaged scholarship	0
Prishani Naidoo: a beautifully diverse, radical and principled tapestry of life, thought and struggle	0
ROAPE at 50: A platform for the people, by the people	0
The moral economy of sanitation provision in informal settlements in Cape Town and Nairobi	0

Imperialism and Africa	0
The political economy of Frantz Fanon’s concept of sociogeny	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
‘Go south’: union organising in the 21st century	0
Evolving and differentiated strategy? A network approach to understand Chinese development finance	0
Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue	0
Revolution or redress? The history of Fanon in Japan	0
‘Where wealth and power and blood (still) reign as worshipped gods!’ A farewell to Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa	0
De la démocratie en Françafrique - Une histoire de l’impérialisme electoral	0
Zimbabwe 1995–2000: rereading Gramsci’s organic intellectual in contemporary working-class struggles	0
Changing labour dynamics in the decarbonisation process in Mozambique’s coal frontier	0
ROAPE at 50: It took a village to help me publish my first blog on Roape.net	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
A scholar in struggle	0
Fanon’s psycho-politics of decolonisation	0
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	0
Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article	0
ROAPE at 50: The Review of African Political Economy and Marxism	0
Tributes on ROAPE’s 50th anniversary	0
ROAPE at 50: ROAPE and Zimbabwe: an appreciation	0
Volume Index	0
Eritrea’s foreign festivals: clashes within the exile community	0
‘Grounding together’ or digging movements into the ground? South African scholar-activism 30 years after democracy	0
Fanon’s continuing presence and revolutionary Sudan	0
Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity	0
Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa	0
An inquiry of Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution in South Africa: reclaiming its value for organisational perspectives	0
(Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan	0
Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal	0
Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency	0
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation	0
An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’	0
Building the Frantz Fanon School: an interview with Mqapheli Bonono	0
The political economy of the climate crisis in Southern Africa	0
Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia	0
Engaged and insurgent scholarship: a reflection	0
Money, value and the state: sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa	0
Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana	0
The crisis of French imperialism: debating military coups in Africa	0
Debt as a political technology: rubber, Firestone and the temporalities of settler colonialism in Liberia	0
Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia	0
‘I am not a prisoner of history’: Frantz Fanon, temporal defiance, and the critique of colonial time	0
North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming	0
Africa and permanent (global) wars	0
The role of the public intellectual in higher education in South Africa: the socially engaged research scholarship of Lungisile Ntsebeza	0
Africa’s deferred liberation	0
Send more guns: Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget plan for Africa	0
Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency	0
African football migration: aspirations, experiences and trajectories	0
The South African Communist Party and the negotiated transition to democracy	0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	0
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda	0
John Saul, 4 May 1938–23 September 2023	0
Frantz Fanon, Kenya’s anti-colonial rebellion and the role of the working class	0
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes	0
Knowledge production for liberation: the Review of African Political Economy 50 years on	0
Lungisile Ntsebeza: a community-engaged scholar in the struggle to build the voice and agency of the rural poor	0
Traditional authority, democracy and protected areas: a quandary for African states	0
Coups and neo-colonialism	0
A response to Thompson and Mohamed’s accusation of being ‘dead wrong’	0
ROAPE at 50: The review in a changing world	0
Imperialism and labour: why global migration governance is unnecessary and why it works	0
Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place	0
Breaking the North–South divide? Reflections on the 2024 Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order	0
Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–2021	0
Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia	0
The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections	0
Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique	0
Hobsbawm on rebellion in the postcolony: the political economy of armed conflicts in Northern Nigeria	0
Global historical materialism and decoloniality	0
Lungisile Ntsebeza, my teacher and my student	0
‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962	0
‘They’re our resources!’ A new frame in the struggle for the liberation of the Sahrawi people	0
The climate emergency in Africa	0