🚨Volume 53 Issue 189 of ROAPE is now OUT. Mining in Contemporary African Development Issue Editors: Bettina Engels and Elisa Greco Full table of contents below👇🏿 mailchi.mp/d5b06eecd179/roap…

Matthew Quest offers a heartfelt memorial essay with original detail and recollections on the Pan African activist from Guyana, Eusi Kwayana (1925-2026) who passed away on 10 October. May he rest in power ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿. roape.net/2026/10/19/eusi-kw…

In this introduction to their new book, African Labour & Liberation, the authors argue that African workers’ struggles remain the key force against imperialism & ecological destruction, & central to building socialist transformation across the continent. roape.net/2026/10/14/african…

We republish Nigel Gibson’s article from ROAPE’s special issue 186, which celebrated the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth. Gibson revisits Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary thought in light of the Sudanese revolution and its counter-revolution. roape.net/2026/10/12/fanons-…

Join the online book launch of the African edition of 'What is the Real Marxist Tradition?', 18:30 GMT 22 Oct. Discuss Marxism's impact in Africa & explore new & radical perspectives for the continent’s political social movements & struggles. roape.net/2026/09/30/what-is…

Rich Mallett argues that for Uganda’s boda boda workers ‘financial inclusion’ schemes promise ownership & entrepreneurship but in practice turn the dream of being your own boss into a precarious & often temporary escape from exploitation. roape.net/2026/09/25/the-pri…

In this new post for roape.net, James Akpu argues the underlying logics of a colonial wartime potato scheme in Nigeria’s highlands continue to reproduce themselves in so-called ‘food security’ programmes across the African continent today. roape.net/2026/09/18/food-se…

In the current moment, developing & deepening our understanding of US-led #imperialism is an urgent task for radical forces everywhere. In this spirit, ROAPE offers a curated selection of ten open-access publications on the topic from our archives: roape.net/2026/09/16/chartin…

African workers are deeply entrenched in a global system of migrant labour exploitation. Their experiences – from Gulf households to Myanmar’s scam compounds – expose the same problem: what does a right to leave mean if they cannot safely use it? roape.net/2026/09/09/african…

As part of our efforts to renew our ranks with radical African scholar-activists from the continent or the diaspora we introduce ROAPE's newest Editorial Working Group Affiliate, Abdoulie Kurang, who describes himself as an organic intellectual buff.ly/7EA3yji

Writing for roape.net, Abiola Isikalu argues that Burkina Faso is extending state control over citizens by treating education & mobility as security threats, conditioning belonging on perceived loyalty rather than actual conduct. roape.net/2026/09/02/before-…

We break our annual shutdown to bring this urgent piece of writing from ROAPE's @LeoZeilig. "Professor Arday is dead. Murdered. Yet again another Black person has been killed – pilloried in a public execution orchestrated by a profoundly racist press & organised fascists" roape.net/2026/08/24/the-mur…

In our last post before our August shutdown, Stephanie Kitchen & David Mills argue that since the 1990s, donors & multinational publishers have entrenched an extraverted academic publishing economy across Africa. roape.net/2026/08/07/the-ext…