2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
"I was born and raised in New Orleans… Sometimes we say it’s the most northern city in the Caribbean… I'm the product of that.
There was a ferry service between New Orleans and Havana.
Marx and Engels both noted the connection between Manchester and New Orleans because of cotton and slavery." ⚜️🌍
There was a ferry service between New Orleans and Havana.
Marx and Engels both noted the connection between Manchester and New Orleans because of cotton and slavery." ⚜️🌍
The African roots of August Nimtz’s radical education ROAPE |
ROAPE interviews legendary Minneapolis-based African American socialist August Nimtz. In the conversation, Nimtz shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectu...
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May 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM
"I was born and raised in New Orleans… Sometimes we say it’s the most northern city in the Caribbean… I'm the product of that.
There was a ferry service between New Orleans and Havana.
Marx and Engels both noted the connection between Manchester and New Orleans because of cotton and slavery." ⚜️🌍
There was a ferry service between New Orleans and Havana.
Marx and Engels both noted the connection between Manchester and New Orleans because of cotton and slavery." ⚜️🌍
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
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Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation - ROAPE
Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary…
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December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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
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Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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roape.net/2023/11/10/w... Walter Rodney and Palestinian Liberation - ROAPE
Walter Rodney and Palestinian Liberation - ROAPE
In the context of Isreali’s mass murder of Palestinians, ROAPE’s Chinedu Chukwudinma writes about Walter Rodney’s uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Rodney’s defence of the methods use...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
roape.net/2023/11/10/w... Walter Rodney and Palestinian Liberation - ROAPE
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...
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...
July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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...
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...
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...
roape.net/2025/09/03/c...
Colin Stoneman on liberation struggle in Zimbabwe and ROAPE's radical origins - ROAPE
Ben Radley speaks with longstanding ROAPE editor Colin Stoneman about his political journey from chemist to Marxist political economist working on Zimbabwe. The interview explores Stoneman's impressio...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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...
roape.net/2025/09/03/c...
In this new piece we show that as the imperial core imposed structural adjustment programs on Africa, Africans were forced to consume less while their surplus resources were transferred instead out to the capitalist world economy effectively *for free*. roape.net/2025/02/28/p...
Plundering Africa - Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes - ROAPE
Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s materi...
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February 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In this new piece we show that as the imperial core imposed structural adjustment programs on Africa, Africans were forced to consume less while their surplus resources were transferred instead out to the capitalist world economy effectively *for free*. roape.net/2025/02/28/p...
„Gelegentlich besteht das Missverständnis, die Europäer hätten die Afrikaner aus rassistischen Gründen versklavt.“ Mehr von #WalterRodney erfahrt ihr heute in Hamburg: Unsere Autorin Bafta Sarbo stellt sein wichtiges Werk »Wie Europa Afrika unterentwickelte« (Manifest) um 19:00, W3 vor: t1p.de/pml0h
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
„Gelegentlich besteht das Missverständnis, die Europäer hätten die Afrikaner aus rassistischen Gründen versklavt.“ Mehr von #WalterRodney erfahrt ihr heute in Hamburg: Unsere Autorin Bafta Sarbo stellt sein wichtiges Werk »Wie Europa Afrika unterentwickelte« (Manifest) um 19:00, W3 vor: t1p.de/pml0h
2/🧵 To learn more about Wallerstein decade-long engagement with African liberation, read Sam Chian’s article in the latest #ROAPE: “Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: From Modernisation to #Marxism in the 1960s”
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May 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
2/🧵 To learn more about Wallerstein decade-long engagement with African liberation, read Sam Chian’s article in the latest #ROAPE: “Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: From Modernisation to #Marxism in the 1960s”
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🚨New Issue Alert!
Volume 52 Issue 183 of ROAPE is now out, edited by Elisa Greco. Open access links to all contributions are in this thread.
EDITORIAL
Africa and permanent (global) wars
Elisa Greco &
@RadleyBen
, 1-14
scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Volume 52 Issue 183 of ROAPE is now out, edited by Elisa Greco. Open access links to all contributions are in this thread.
EDITORIAL
Africa and permanent (global) wars
Elisa Greco &
@RadleyBen
, 1-14
scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
April 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚨New Issue Alert!
Volume 52 Issue 183 of ROAPE is now out, edited by Elisa Greco. Open access links to all contributions are in this thread.
EDITORIAL
Africa and permanent (global) wars
Elisa Greco &
@RadleyBen
, 1-14
scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Volume 52 Issue 183 of ROAPE is now out, edited by Elisa Greco. Open access links to all contributions are in this thread.
EDITORIAL
Africa and permanent (global) wars
Elisa Greco &
@RadleyBen
, 1-14
scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
ROAPE Volume 52 Issue 185 is out now!
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
mailchi.mp/e3ebab9c8850...
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
mailchi.mp/e3ebab9c8850...
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ROAPE Volume 52 Issue 185 is out now!
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
mailchi.mp/e3ebab9c8850...
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
mailchi.mp/e3ebab9c8850...
Probably the dumbest take I have ever read on the war in the Sahel. Brought to you by ROAPE
https://roape.net/2026/06/12/is-france-funding-terrorism-in-the-sahel/
https://roape.net/2026/06/12/is-france-funding-terrorism-in-the-sahel/
June 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Probably the dumbest take I have ever read on the war in the Sahel. Brought to you by ROAPE
https://roape.net/2026/06/12/is-france-funding-terrorism-in-the-sahel/
https://roape.net/2026/06/12/is-france-funding-terrorism-in-the-sahel/
Malick Doucouré argues that the recent anti-LGBT crackdowns in pro-Pan-African governments are about elites manufacturing unity against a fake external threat to absolve their failure to fix the economy. He argues it's time to reclaim the Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah & Sankara.
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The homophobia of Pan-African regimes | ROAPE
West Africa has experienced a series of significant geopolitical developments in recent years, with the potential to reshape both its political landscape and economic trajectory. These are, in many…
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July 31, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Malick Doucouré argues that the recent anti-LGBT crackdowns in pro-Pan-African governments are about elites manufacturing unity against a fake external threat to absolve their failure to fix the economy. He argues it's time to reclaim the Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah & Sankara.
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A really useful summary of the field of critical agrarian studies by @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social for ROAPE
roape.net/2018/03/28/w...
roape.net/2018/03/28/w...
What is Critical Agrarian Studies? - ROAPE
As part of our new series, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi introduces critical agrarian studies. He argues that such an approach must embed its analysis within the context of global processes: the food regime, ...
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February 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A really useful summary of the field of critical agrarian studies by @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social for ROAPE
roape.net/2018/03/28/w...
roape.net/2018/03/28/w...
"The transatlantic slave trade built the modern world— its wealth, its institutions, and the global order that 52 countries chose to protect (by voting no).
Ghana’s resolution didn't change that order. But it named it. And in international politics, naming s.t. is the first act of dismantling it."
Ghana’s resolution didn't change that order. But it named it. And in international politics, naming s.t. is the first act of dismantling it."
May 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM
"The transatlantic slave trade built the modern world— its wealth, its institutions, and the global order that 52 countries chose to protect (by voting no).
Ghana’s resolution didn't change that order. But it named it. And in international politics, naming s.t. is the first act of dismantling it."
Ghana’s resolution didn't change that order. But it named it. And in international politics, naming s.t. is the first act of dismantling it."
n this piece, ROAPE announces the 2026 winner of the Ruth Prize, Zimbabwean scholar and activist Antonater Tafadzwa Choto
roape.net/2026/06/29/r...
roape.net/2026/06/29/r...
June 29, 2026 at 6:18 AM
n this piece, ROAPE announces the 2026 winner of the Ruth Prize, Zimbabwean scholar and activist Antonater Tafadzwa Choto
roape.net/2026/06/29/r...
roape.net/2026/06/29/r...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this amazing interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2021).
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African Feminisms – a decolonial history: an interview with Rama Salla Dieng | ROAPE
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2001). In…
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March 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this amazing interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2021).
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"When I was in high school in 1957, my mother had my sister and me create a display about Ghana’s independence…
In [my] household, we were also very supportive of Nasser in Egypt… I also remember when Puerto Rican nationalists [protested] inside Congress."
He went to my grandpa's HS, McDonogh 35!
In [my] household, we were also very supportive of Nasser in Egypt… I also remember when Puerto Rican nationalists [protested] inside Congress."
He went to my grandpa's HS, McDonogh 35!
The African roots of August Nimtz’s radical education ROAPE |
ROAPE interviews legendary Minneapolis-based African American socialist August Nimtz. In the conversation, Nimtz shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectu...
roape.net
May 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
"When I was in high school in 1957, my mother had my sister and me create a display about Ghana’s independence…
In [my] household, we were also very supportive of Nasser in Egypt… I also remember when Puerto Rican nationalists [protested] inside Congress."
He went to my grandpa's HS, McDonogh 35!
In [my] household, we were also very supportive of Nasser in Egypt… I also remember when Puerto Rican nationalists [protested] inside Congress."
He went to my grandpa's HS, McDonogh 35!
I am pleased to share my last article: “Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis: Patriarchy, anti-gender backlash & the postcolonial carceral state”on the blog of the Review of African Political Economy roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis | ROAPE
Let us be honest about what happened on 12 March 2026. Senegal's National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to criminalise the "promotion" or ...
roape.net
March 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I am pleased to share my last article: “Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis: Patriarchy, anti-gender backlash & the postcolonial carceral state”on the blog of the Review of African Political Economy roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
Indispensable reading by Rama Salla Dieng on concurrent crises in Senegal, fabricated at home and abroad, that led to the recent anti-LGBTQ law.
roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis | ROAPE
Let us be honest about what happened on 12 March 2026. Senegal's National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to criminalise the "promotion" or ...
roape.net
March 18, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Indispensable reading by Rama Salla Dieng on concurrent crises in Senegal, fabricated at home and abroad, that led to the recent anti-LGBTQ law.
roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
For those who missed it: the debate @roapejournal.bsky.social between Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven
roape.net/2022/02/08/t...
#econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social
roape.net/2022/02/08/t...
#econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social
The Debate - why economists get Africa (really) wrong | ROAPE
In a debate on radical political economy, economics and economists working on Africa, Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven look at the use of statistics, mainstream economics, power, imperialism, pa...
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May 14, 2026 at 7:38 AM
For those who missed it: the debate @roapejournal.bsky.social between Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven
roape.net/2022/02/08/t...
#econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social
roape.net/2022/02/08/t...
#econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social