Review of African Political Economy

Papers
(The TQCC of Review of African Political Economy is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa21
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime18
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia16
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region14
Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War12
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots11
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg9
Migration beyond capitalism9
Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe8
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s7
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa7
Africa Development5
Africa’s unequal balance5
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana5
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria5
The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism5
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria5
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary4
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed4
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies4
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers4
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa4
Ruth First Prize3
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements3
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza3
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front3
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership3
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
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation3
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia3
Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria2
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?2
Volume Index2
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources2
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa2
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources2
The military in Zimbabwean politics2
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta2
Correction2
Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana2
How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta2
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans2
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