Review of African Political Economy

Papers
(The TQCC of Review of African Political Economy is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime39
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia14
The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa13
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region12
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots10
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa9
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg9
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s7
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria6
Africa Development6
A radical supplement: Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire6
Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo5
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary5
Africa’s unequal balance5
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies5
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers5
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa4
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements4
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria4
The limits of Marxist-Leninism and the democratic ecosocialist alternative4
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation4
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity4
Economic instrument or political tool? An assessment of the socioeconomic outcomes of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s 2022 currency redesign and cashless policy3
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt3
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?3
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza3
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia3
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources2
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism2
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?2
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans2
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta2
‘We’ve got the state. Where’s the power?’: debilitating contradictions in the South African Communist Party’s state leadership since 19942
Correction2
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources2
The military in Zimbabwean politics2
The changing dynamics of Nigeria’s petroleum and politics2
Challenging ‘conventional agriculture’: assessing the evolution and development of the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers’ Forum as a social movement organisation1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan1
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 crisis1
Overlying and muddled power: the Ciskei Bantustan’s disputed rural governance in the twilight decade of apartheid, c.1985–951
‘We are building a new and better society’: prefigurative strategies for building socialism today – the legacies of Ruth First and Matthew Goniwe1
The shifting influence of Frantz Fanon on Walter Rodney’s anti-imperialism (1968–1978)1
The climate emergency in Africa1
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan1
Voices for African liberation: conversations with the Review of African Political Economy1
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo1
Exploitation, patriarchy and petty commodity production: class, gender and neocolonialism in rural eastern Uganda1
Workers, protests and trade unions in Africa1
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 Nigeria1
Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania1
What is a resource for the people of Western Sahara? A historical synthesis of a socio-territorial issue1
Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership): understanding the persistence of unfree Fulani labour and the (non)violent renegotiation of power relations in agrarian economies in northern Ghana1
‘This is like Guadalajara’: politics, identity and the management of natural resources in late colonial Spanish Sahara1
ROAPE: looking back to move forward1
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies1
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique1
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship1
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan1
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