Geography Archives: Africa

Ghana’s UN resolution on the transatlantic slave trade and the crisis of the Global North.

The Pan-African summit against imperialism.

Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE.

How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements.

Had Thomas Sankara not been assassinated in 1987 and been allowed to advance Burkina Faso’s development, perhaps the Sahel would have followed his example a generation ago–and things might look very different today.

The proposed amendments included softening language criticising Israel for its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, and dropping a reference to “East Jerusalem” to be established as the capital of the Palestinian state as a part of the two-state solution.

A critique of Jacobin’s framing of Ibrahim Traoré, and the deeper problem of purity, legibility, and distance in Western left analysis.

The Sahel’s future will not be secured by border walls, bases, or markets, but by confronting the capitalist and imperialist structures that convert climate stress into dispossession and war.

Recent comments by Ibrahim Traoré on democracy have spread widely in Western media following an interview, but interpretations that he rejects democracy appear to misrepresent his position.

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind A.I. training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.

An interview with Rama Salla Dieng

Re-reading Rodney, Nkrumah, and Mbembe in the age of data capitalism.

Burkina Faso’s recent politics is no remake of Sankarism.

As of this writing, we have learned that Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted and tortured on the evening of February 23rd and is being held at Mlolongo Police Station.

Conflict has torn Sudan apart.

Colin Leys’ intellectual life has long been shaped by Africa – its politics, its contradictions, and its enduring entanglements with global capitalism.

In his contribution to ROAPE’s special issue on Frantz Fanon, Peter Hudis challenges the widespread claim that Fanon had little to say about the Marxian critique of political economy. He does so by examining Fanon’s attentiveness to the sociogenic basis of racial domination in Black Skins, White Masks and his discussion of the transition from national liberation to socialism in The Wretched of the Earth and his final psychiatric writings. By engaging with Fanon’s views on nationalisation, decentralised economic and political structures, and the role of the party, the article argues that what Fanon called the “humanisation of work” was central to a thoroughly democratic and non-hierarchical conception of socialism.

Antonia Baumgartner argues that behind the promise of peace, a set of recent U.S.-backed agreements have reshaped how the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s minerals, infrastructure, and political choices are tied to Washington’s strategic priorities. Under these arrangements, unlicensed and prospective mining areas are pooled into a reserve that gives the United States privileged, priority access to future concessions. As security and diplomatic backing for the Congolese government against Rwanda and M23 becomes linked to mineral access and supply-chain politics, questions are raised about sovereignty, long-term peace and stability.

Lars Cornelissen offers an extract from his recent book “Neoliberalism and Race”, which argues that race functions as an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Drawing on intellectual history and critical race studies, he traces both explicit and coded racial constructs within neoliberal thought from the interwar period to the present. The book shows that racial themes have consistently shaped neoliberalism, to the extent that its racial motifs cannot be removed without rendering it theoretically and politically incoherent.