The scale is global, not exclusively African.

ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig argues that Professor Jason Arday’s suicide was a racist political killing, driven by a media and far-right campaign and enabled by liberal institutions, exposing the deepening crisis of racism and fascism under contemporary capitalism both in the UK and globally.

Contemporary global political discourses are often noted for their intense polarization, in which elections are increasingly reduced from choices about governance and ideology to something more banal and ritualistic.

Guinea-Bissau’s geography had always made it profitable for smuggling–particularly in the Bijagós archipelago, with its more than eighty islands and complex coastal waterways.

How colonial extraction became Guinea‑Bissau’s permanent bondage.

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.

An attempt at understanding.

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

The Pan-African summit against imperialism.

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

Accounts of Rodney’s activism in Jamaica in 1968 often romanticise him as a wandering black intellectual […].

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.

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.

This radical supplement to the editorial of ROAPE’s Fanon special issue raises awareness of how Fanon’s ideas, in the year of his centenary, continue to provoke fear and anxiety within the Western imperialist political establishment, especially as his work gains renewed prominence among pro-Palestinian activists. It provides Sarah Jilani, one of the contributors to this special issue, with the space to respond to a 2025 policy report published by the British Conservative think tank Policy Exchange, titled After Gaza: Fanon and His Acolytes, which includes a footnote mocking Jilani while insulting Fanon’s legacy.