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The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a socialist journal & website providing radical analysis of capitalist exploitation, oppression & resistance.
To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100 buff.ly/7YXVZnn
SAM CHIAN - Sleeping Beauty and the Masses: Fanon’s Class Analysis of the Postcolony. Published via our partnership with @ROAPEjournal theelephant.info/analysis/2025/…
#Gabon #Africa F.Fanon was essential. He died early. But he was neither a historian nor a sociologist. Algeria was a settler colony: A different colonial context; it wasn't Sub-Saharan Africa. He couldn't grasp the complexity of African societies and their diversity.
To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100 buff.ly/7YXVZnn
Keep an eye out for @ROAPEjournal's upcoming Fanon special issue, due out in December 2025... x.com/ROAPEjournal/s…
100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born. Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a key thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist. "What matters is not to know the world but to change it"
100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born. Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a key thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist. "What matters is not to know the world but to change it"
In a new blog for roape.net, journalist Khadija Sharife argues the asset theft of African #military intellectual property signals a continuation of #imperial plunder & resource #extraction in digital & scientific form. roape.net/2025/07/09/the…
Publication Spotlight: Rage and Bloom by Lena Grace Anyuolo A powerful debut that calls out capitalism, patriarchy and the cracks in the revolution, all whilst still daring to write of friendship, care and hope. This one feels. 📗Buy now: Paperback / eBook:…
In this piece, Mebratu Kelecha argues that Ethiopia’s ruling elites have consistently constructed both internal and external threats as a means of consolidating power and justifying repressive policies. He traces the historical repression against the Oromo people, justified by…
In part 2 of his interview, ROAPE's Peter Lawrence reflects on his early engagement with #ROAPE journal, Eurocommunism, his travels through Hungary, East Germany, and Uganda, as well as his perspective on development economics. buff.ly/SFK94A5
As #Kenya marks the first anniversary of the anti-austerity, anti-IMF, anti-Ruto uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played by Gen-Z #occupyparliament #RutoMustGo buff.ly/3HDb0ng
In this piece, Tamuka Chekero argues that elites like Rhodes, Trump, and Musk practise "transactional belonging" that allows them to dodge accountability, sidestep regulation, and exploit the systems. buff.ly/aMR1iC5
From Sussex activism with Thabo Mbeki to teaching under Nyerere's Ujamaa—ROAPE's founding editor Peter Lawrence reflects on a lifetime of socialist struggle in #Africa. @TMFoundation_ Stay tuned for part 2. buff.ly/5i09wig
'Chinese capital and economic transformation in Africa: what has changed after Covid-19?' - a new @ROAPEjournal article on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…
We share Laureen Snider’s Afterword from #ROAPE’s collection Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa (2024). She situates economic crime within global neoliberal capitalism as profit-hungry firms invade Africa with no regard for its people. @WiegratzJorg buff.ly/5Qe5nDW