Geography Archives: Africa

In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.

In the second congress of the CPM-K, delegates called for the continuation of the National Democratic Revolution and asserted that socialism is the only path forward.

Writing for ROAPE, Thelma Arko argues that while often presented as a solution to the climate emergency, the growth of carbon offset markets are fueling a new scramble for African land and perpetuating colonial-era exploitation. We must move beyond market-based solutions, Arko urges, to embrace strategies that centre on social equity, ecological integrity, and the rights of local communities.

In Nigeria, 29 children aged 14 to 17 could face the death penalty after being arraigned in Abuja on Nov. 1 with 76 others for participating in protests against the country’s severe cost-of-living crisis. 

With a constant stream of media exposing genocidal war in Palestine, child labor in the Congo, and Indigenous struggles in South America, neoliberalism’s colonial nature is clearer than ever. Now is the time to return to the works of Fanon and explore a radically different future liberated from coloniality, Ken Olende explores.

BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.

The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place this week in the Russian city of Kazan. President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of August, and is attending with a Venezuelan delegation.

In the Summit held in the Russian city of Kazan, BRICS members condemned the genocidal Israeli war on West Asia, the illegal sanctions regimes imposed on the people of the world by the U.S. and its allies, and Western dominated multilateral institutions.

An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.

The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative (BCBPI) will use national currencies, instead of the U.S. dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.

The Alliance of Sahel States has already begun to change the conditions of the people in the region for the better. Bold actions, including the expulsion of exploitative mining contracts, put these nations in a better position to achieve and protect their national sovereignty.

ROAPE’s Ray Bush introduces Volume 51 Issue 181 of the journal, a special 50th anniversary issue on imperialism and Africa.

Forty years later, Lehlohonolo Kennedy Mahlatsi looks back on the Vaal Uprising in South Africa, which marked a turning point in the growth of mass-based organizations throughout the country and the mass rejection of apartheid colonial rule.

Africa continues to rise up and delivers surprises. In recent days, several African leaders have made diplomatic trips that are reshaping the geometries of the international chessboard. The SAHEL Alliance states are charting a watershed that could divide Africa in two and determine a new historical course for the entire continent.

Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering—how generous of them—to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents had been brutally displaced between 1965 to 1973, to Mauritius.

WEST Africa, which had been largely under French colonial rule, never saw decolonization of the sort that India did.

U.S. efforts to control information in Africa will ultimately backfire, says African journalist, author, and filmmaker David Hundeyin.

The aftermath of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is clear: Washington’s economic and diplomatic influence on the continent is set to wane even further.

China’s economic ascendency and the ensuing rivalry between Beijing and Washington, representing the world’s two largest economies, are being played out across the resource-rich African continent.