Caroline Wanjiku Kihato interviews Colin Leys about his new book Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya, exploring the threads that connect a family story to empire’s long shadow. roape.net/2026/02/18/s...

Yahia H. Zoubir & Abdelkader Abderrahmane argue that Resolution 2797 (2025) grants Western Sahara limited self-rule under Moroccan sovereignty, sidelining the UN’s commitment to self-determination in favor of powerful Western states. buff.ly/hBi6Wh1

In this powerful blog piece, community organizer Njeri Mwangi shares her activist experience with the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Kenya, reflecting on how the centre transformed itself through the courage of communities refusing to normalize violence and poverty. roape.net/2026/02/11/r...

In a few weeks' time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms.bsky.social[email protected] webinar about green imperialism in #Congo 🇨🇩, drawing on some of the ideas I wrote on the topic a few years ago (www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...). You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...

Did Frantz Fanon really have nothing to say about political economy? In ROAPE's #Fanon special issue Peter Hudis argues otherwise, uncovering Fanon’s Marxian insights into labour, socialism, and democratic liberation. buff.ly/jIjmwko

Writing for roape.net, Antonia Baumgartner argues that behind the promise of peace, a set of recent US-backed agreements have reshaped how the DR Congo’s minerals, infrastructure & political choices are tied to Washington’s strategic priorities. 🇨🇩 🤝 🇺🇸 roape.net/2026/02/04/t...

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberalism. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent. buff.ly/MevrIVm

In this piece, Abdoulie Kurang offers a postcolonial critique of so-called modernity, which positions the West as the ‘civilised’ and ‘civilising’ entity, and the African elite who feeds (on) it. roape.net/2026/01/28/t...

Muriam Haleh Davis revisits post-independence Algerian debates on Frantz Fanon in her briefing for ROAPE’s Fanon special issue. Focusing on leftist responses to Fanon’s views on the peasantry and communism, she shows why his work remained central after independence. buff.ly/0abvmoe

Find all the new content posted to roape.net between October & December 2025. Want this quarterly website update to your inbox, along with new journal issue content updates? Sign up at the top our our website mailchi.mp/88867d588463...

Writing for roape.net, Tafahri Munjatta examines the paradox of Raila #Odinga, #Kenya's most enduring opposition figure who passed in October 2025 – a man who spoke the language of #revolution yet moved within the architecture of power. roape.net/2026/01/21/t...

"From the outset the movement took political education—seen as a process of mutual learning— seriously. There was an immediate and strong interest in Frantz Fanon. And while not initially inspired by Paulo Freire, Freire was later taken up." #SouthAfrica #Fanon #PoliticalEducation #Community

For ROAPE's special issue celebrating Frantz #Fanon100, Richard Pithouse interviews Mqapheli Bonono of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Bonono discusses how the shack dwellers built the Frantz Fanon School amid evictions, assassinations, and state repression. buff.ly/DB5nHbj

Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture bsky.app/profile/roap...

Writing for ROAPE, and drawing on original empirical data from eight African countries, Robin Jaspert argues that the profits reaped out of Africa flow into the hands of foreign capitalists mostly located in the global North. roape.net/2026/01/14/i...

Our 2025 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals roape.net/2026/01/09/r...

Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100? Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here: mailchi.mp/09af158365d9... #Fanon100

Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100? Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here: mailchi.mp/09af158365d9... #Fanon100

In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment @sarahjilani.bsky.social and @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social respond to the British imperialists @Policy_Exchange who have slandered #Fanon. buff.ly/Z0KqSH3

In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment @sarahjilani.bsky.social and @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social respond to the British imperialists @Policy_Exchange who have slandered #Fanon. buff.ly/Z0KqSH3

Special issue of ROAPE. Christopher J Lee, one of the issue's co-editors/introducers was one of my best follows on old twitter. #Fanon100.

This special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!

To read: *Frantz Fanon at 100* 👇🏽 A Special Issue @roapejournal.bsky.social

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD

Shreya Parikh examines how popular narratives of Tunisia’s “glorious past,” particularly in La Goulette, celebrate colonial-era coexistence by centering white or white-passing European communities while erasing indigenous, Amazigh, and Black presences. buff.ly/iy6kJZD

Aymen Amayed reports on a recent international conference in Tunis that assembled leading critical analysts of imperialism and class struggle in the global South, including Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik, Sami Zemni, Ali Kadri & Paris Yeros. roape.net/2025/12/16/d...

Deadline Dec 22nd! @antipodeonline.bsky.social @plaasuwc.bsky.social @rethinkingmarxism.bsky.social #geosky #ipesky @sasemeeting.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social

The UN has outlived it's usefulness and one might ask how useful it's ever been in protecting smaller countries from more powerful ones. Video of protests all around the world, including at the United Nations, after they allowed assassination of Patrice Lumumba. The UN allowed it.

We also recently ran a full special issue on Western Sahara - 'Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources' - which you can find here www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu... bsky.app/profile/roap...

In an update from our post about Nigerian government arrests, imprisonements and torture from last year, the Abuja 11 finally get justice. Maxwell Adeyemi reports. #Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11 roape.net/2025/12/12/t...

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.” — Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961. 🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥 #Fanon100

“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.” — Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961. 🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥 #Fanon100

Thelma Arko & Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action. roape.net/2025/11/26/s...

ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal, with an editorial: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice 🔥 🔥 🔥

ROAPE Volume 52 Issue 185 is out now! Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole mailchi.mp/e3ebab9c8850...

Can strikes save Nigerian universities ? Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu looks at this question by examining the strikes through Marxist and conflict theory lenses, drawing from lecturers’ voices and highlighting the erosion of public education buff.ly/YbvXz2O

Emmanuella Otubuah writes a solidarity letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal — Black Power activist, journalist & icon of the anti-death penalty movement — whose courage after 40+ years behind bars still inspires a new generation. buff.ly/lxS2Oq1

Congrats to Zohran Mamdani, The first African mayor of New York City!!! Now let's build the resistance against Wallstreet, the #Oligarchy and the political establishment. #Socialism #NYC

Shaun Milton reviews Saima Ndahangwapo’s new book Defending the Investment about uranium mining in Namibia, arguing it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of decolonisation in Africa. roape.net/2025/11/05/d...

Marion Ouma reviews International Political Economy and the Global South: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East as a timely volume challenging the dominance of Western narratives. buff.ly/kryBeU0

In this thought-provoking blog based on his new book Adam Mayer argues that African Military Marxism influenced the emergence of entirely new political systems in Africa, challenging the notion that Western democracy is the ultimate political model. buff.ly/3nol8ec

ROAPE’s Pascal Bianchini interviews Malagasy historian Harilala Ranjatohery on Madagascar’s Gen Z revolt: the Youth-led protest for water and electricity grew into a nationwide movement for systemic change, backed by trade unions, that toppled Rajoelina buff.ly/SYBbb4M

roape.net/2025/10/22/bor… Fikir Haile highlights ways the current government of Ethiopia differs with its predecessor in their engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and explains how the previous government resisted the neoliberal pressure.

For the 38th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s murder, Amber Murrey speaks with Burkinabè geographer Lazare Ki-Zerbo, who explains how a “political geography of insubordination” shapes Burkina Faso’s historical struggles and today's wartime Pan-Africanism. buff.ly/6G4IS0k

Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the historical processes of political, economic & social failure in #Eswatini that have led the Communist Party of #Swaziland to declare 2025 the Year of Mass Mobilisation for the Insurrectionary Seizure of Power. roape.net/2025/10/17/s...

For the 38th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s murder, Amber Murrey speaks with Burkinabè geographer Lazare Ki-Zerbo, who explains how a “political geography of insubordination” shapes Burkina Faso’s historical struggles and today's wartime Pan-Africanism. buff.ly/6G4IS0k