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🚨ROAPE Journal, Volume 53 Issue 187 is out now! The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa Issue Editors: Janet Cherry and Peter Lawrence 🇿🇦 mailchi.mp/913887ebf450/r…

Offering his reflections on the first chapter of ‘The Big Conservation Lie’, James Mulei raises questions of symbolic power in the domain of wildlife conservation roape.net/2026/07/16/of-…

🚨 New issue alert! Volume 53 Issue 188 War Issue Editor: Ray Bush All articles, briefings and debates available to read and download for free from anywhere in the world at the link below 👇🏿 mailchi.mp/3d77c8c31fc4/r…

In the final instalment on cashew capitalism, Klas Lundström Martínez argues that Guinea-Bissau’s colonial cashew monoculture created a permanent system of economic dependency, with women’s invisible labour holding the entire economy together. roape.net/2026/07/13/cas…

Peter Cole traces how Soweto's Black students ignited a nationwide revolt against apartheid in 1976, reshaping South Africa's political future. roape.net/2026/07/08/sow…

Writing for ROAPE, Klas Lundström Martínez argues Guinea-Bissau’s ongoing crisis is shaped by circumstances rooted in the colonial era & the country’s failed attempts to break with its historical role as a cheap commodity producer for the Western world. roape.net/2026/07/06/cas…

Anti imperialism in #Africa with @ROAPEjournal @capassomat @wsschambati @FreedomMazwi @AmberMurrey and many more scienceopen.com/journal-issue?…

For Editor House Facility, Gathanga Ndung'u writes about the extraordinary efforts to suppress our new title on the uprising in Kenya. @gacheke2011 @njukigithethwa @YusufSerunkuma @ROAPEjournal @SpireJim

7/ I wrote about Afana’s L’Économie de l’Ouest Africain for @ROAPEjournal : The man who saw everything coming, and was killed before anyone listened. @CODESRIA @tri_continental @vijayprashad Full piece: roape.net/2026/07/02/the… #AfricanStudies #EconTwitter #Decolonization

60 years since Osendé Afana was assassinated fighting Cameroon's neo-colonial state. Loic Gapin's blog revisits his 1966 book on how imperialism stifled African development — and why the problem hasn't gone away roape.net/2026/07/02/the…

A tremendous piece of work on the extraordinary struggles of the working class in Zimbabwe by Tafadzwa Choto. Her book on Gramsci’s organic intellectuals in Zimbabwean working-class struggles will be out later this year with Editor House Facility @editors_guild @YusufSerunkuma

In this piece, ROAPE announces the 2026 winner of the Ruth First Prize, Zimbabwean scholar and activist Antonater Tafadzwa Choto roape.net/2026/06/29/roa…

Onwubiko Agozino argues for penal abolitionism through a return to the original Ubuntu African philosophy of forgiveness that appears to be reserved only for the rich and powerful today. roape.net/2026/06/24/cor…

Carbon offset is a scam! period!

Biggest scam exploring poverty . Just like those loan solar lights . More people should engage and discuss.

In this book review published in ROAPE’s journal issue No.187, Pascal Bianchini provides a glimpse into Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla’s volume titled De la démocratie en Françafrique – Une histoire de l’impérialisme electoral. roape.net/2026/06/18/fre…

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region. roape.net/2026/06/12/is-…

Introducing an open access special issue on reparations & global health, @Liepollo9 argues that if the 19th century was the era of abolition & the 20th century of decolonisation (however incomplete), then the 21st century must be the era of repair. roape.net/2026/06/10/the…

A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026. Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post! roape.net/2026/05/12/roa…