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

In 1980s Burkina Faso, #ThomasSankara dared to imagine a different Africa — one built on equality & freedom from imperialism. Yet his #socialism project proved too weak to last as Jean-Claude Kongo and Leo Zeilig discuss in this piece:

This week, we remember Thomas Sankara — 38 years since his assassination, yet his anti-imperialist vision for African unity, justice & self-reliance burns brighter than ever. Read: “The international forces arrayed against Sankara were too much.” #ThomasSankara #BurkinaFaso

In her review of "Community Policing in Nigeria", Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police has always served the ruling class, not the people. She says the book offers a much-needed model of community-policing for #Nigerians still reeling from #EndSARS.

This a long article but I would recommend that people who care about Africa should have a read. It explains a lot.

“Between the workers and the bureaucrats, Nyerere hesitated before he ultimately stood with the latter. We lost the workers.” In #ROAPE185, Issa Shivji reflects (in convo with Liu Ye) on the hopes and contradictions of Ujamaa and African #socialisms. buff.ly/2eIyYR6

Biniam Sbhatu recounts historian Alemseged Tesfai’s powerful 2025 United Nations seminar, where Tesfai condemned the #UN’s 1952 decision to deny #Eritrea’s self-determination and honored the resilience of its people. buff.ly/DSQdTQ3

Kola Ibrahim argues that climate justice movements must look beyond much-hyped climate negotiations to challenge the dominant capitalist interests driving imperialist warmongering & climate breakdown. #COP30 #ClimateAction roape.net/2025/10/01/c...

📝 My new article on Immanuel Wallerstein is out in Journal of World-Systems Research. It builds on my earlier piece for @roapejournal.bsky.social and examines how Marxism shaped The Modern World-System. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Every African should have a read.

Liam Taylor writes powerfully about how the market economy has commodified Uganda’s fish, cattle, and land in ways that enrich elites and markets while dispossessing and impoverishing ordinary people, causing ecological destruction and leaving society unstable and restless. buff.ly/L8TWSb0

In her blog, Mxhalisa shows how capitalism now commodifies its own waste. This shift creates an exploited “counter-productive labour” engaged in waste picking activities in a rotten system hellbent on producing more rubbish than goods for profit. #climatechange #globalwarming buff.ly/HSiFigX

101 years ago today, Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary leader of Guinea Bissau, was born. To mark his birthday we are resharing an interview with his biographer António Tomás, author of Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist. buff.ly/Fh87nkc

Oppong discusses the new #imperialism in #Africa. He sees it as a process of fierce competition between old and new imperial powers, manipulating Africa's corrupt elite. This new scramble sustained by hypocrisy, geopolitics, and African underdevelopment. buff.ly/OIcd9d3

Drawing upon 41 interviews and 200 hours of observant participation, Siyabulela Fobosi delivers a scathing criticism of South Africa’s Taxi Recapitalisation Programme, arguing that it deepens precarity and workers’ resistance.

Longstanding ROAPE editor Colin Stoneman recalls his impressions of #Zimbabwe under colonial occupation, the country’s liberation struggle and its leading unionist & political figures, including Morgan Tsvangiri. roape.net/2025/09/03/c...

We inform our readers and supporters that we are embarking on our summer shutdown from August 11 to 29 on our website and social media. Thank you very much for your understanding. Please check out our most recent articles! buff.ly/QGPhQHZ

In celebration of Fanon's centenary, we repost an interview with the Tunisian sociologist, Frej Stambouli who remembers his teacher #FrantzFanon. Stambouli considers Fanon’s legacy and his anger, reason and kindness, recalling, ‘I will never forget the generosity of Fanon’.

Chimdessa Fekadu Tsega discusses the role of Africa in a China-led initiative for conflict resolution, exploring its aims, prospects and challenges as well as questions Africa might need to confront buff.ly/jEsczk1

The editorial from the latest issue of ROAPE journal, including links to freely access all the listed articles: Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources, by Blanca Camps-Febrer & Enrique Bengochea Tirado roape.net/2025/07/30/c...

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

100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born. Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal 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 and resource extraction in digital and scientific form. roape.net/2025/07/09/t...

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/WT7WEks

She was joined by Joey Kok(African Studies), Justin Pearce(@jsas-journal.bsky.social)‬, Bettina Engels(@roapejournal.bsky.social‬), George Bob-Milliar(African Affairs) & Stephanie Rudwick(Modern Africa) for a roundtable discussion on how publishers can address asymmetries in knowledge production.

#BlackSky #Kenya

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/WT7WEks

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 GenZ #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. Stay tuned for part 2 next week. buff.ly/5i09wig

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. Stay tuned for part 2 next week. buff.ly/5i09wig

What has happened to Chinese firms in Africa after Covid-19? My new (open access!) article for @roapejournal.bsky.social here: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

We share Laureen Snider’s Afterword from #ROAPE’s edited 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. buff.ly/5Qe5nDW

In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book - Military #Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 - Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from #Africa’s Military Marxists. roape.net/2025/06/04/t...

Mohammed Abdishukri discusses Transnational state repression in #EastAfrica highlighting the mistreatment of activists expressing solidarity with Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu, now facing treason charges. He calls for unconventional resistance! buff.ly/L5ac1Mm

Africa woke up less richer in knowledge today as it continues in its journey to reconstruct itself from an era that derecognised and degraded the lived experience of the African. Rest in power, #NgugiWaThiongo

ROAPE's Julie Hearn offers a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Gĩkũyũ storyteller and revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who passed away on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, at the age of 87. #NgugiwaThiongo #RIP buff.ly/D81Pa3c

ROAPE's Julie Hearn offers a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Gĩkũyũ storyteller and revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who passed away on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, at the age of 87. #NgugiwaThiongo #RIP buff.ly/D81Pa3c

We're deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at the age 87. His words shaped and reshaped our grasp of African resistance and decolonisation under colonialism and the postcolonial era. Rest in power. #NgugiWaThiongo buff.ly/08Dt8tC

In this piece Pedro Mzileni urges us to recognise Africa’s contribution to International Workers’ Day by celebrating slain South African #Communist leader Chris Hani, who saw working-class internationalism as the only path to ending #Black oppression. buff.ly/BjFC5Vh