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  • | 1974 Walter Rodney and his family returned to Guyana | MR Online

    A difficult return – race, class, and politics in Rodney’s Guyana

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on May 5, 2022 by Chinedu Chukwudinma (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted May 09, 2022)

    In 1974 Walter Rodney and his family returned to Guyana. Rodney immediately faced a country divided between the Indian and African working class, and the brutal and divisive regime of Forbes Burnham. Rodney produced an impressive body of historical work which provided a Marxist explanation for the divide of the country’s working people. Chinedu Chukwudinma continues the story of Rodney’s revolutionary life.

  • | Julius Nyerere with Fidel Castro and a Cuban worker in 1977 | MR Online

    The Mecca of African Liberation: Walter Rodney in Tanzania

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on April 7, 2022 by Chinedu Chukwudinma (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Apr 13, 2022)

    Karim Hirji, a Tanzanian student, was in a good mood when he went to bed on the 10 July 1969. That evening he had heard the most impressive lecture of his life at the University of Dar es Salaam. The lecture was on the Cuban Revolution and its relevance to Africa. Back in his dorm, he praised the speaker in his diary: “one could almost feel the strong conviction and deep emotions from which he spoke”. The man he admired and later befriended was Dr Walter Rodney.

  • | Walter Rodney | MR Online

    ‘A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney’

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on March 15, 2022 by Chinedu Chukwudinm (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Mar 25, 2022)

    Walter Rodney was almost the same age as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr when he was assassinated on 13 June 1980 in Guyana at the age of 38.

  • | Habib Ayeb | MR Online

    Max Ajl in conversation with Habib Ayeb on food sovereignty and the environment

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on April 12, 2018 (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))

    Max Ajl interviews radical geographer and activist Habib Ayeb. Habib Ayeb is a founder member of the NGO Observatory of Food Sovereignty and Environment (OSAE) and Max Ajl is a Postdoc at Wageningen University’s Rural Sociology Group, associate editor at Agrarian South and the author of A People’s Green New Deal.

  • | Aerial photo of Fort Madama Niger November 2014 Thomas Goisque | MR Online

    Coups, insurgency, and imperialism in Africa

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on March 8, 2022 by Amy Niang (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Mar 10, 2022)

    West Africa is in the grip of a wave of coups, popular protests and fierce geopolitical struggles. Amy Niang argues that declining western hegemony in the region goes hand to hand with intensified competition for access and control of Africa’s natural resources. Furthermore, Niang states, the Russian occupation of Ukraine compels us to look at the importance of the country’s growing presence in Africa.

  • | Where did the Dependency Approach Go | MR Online

    Where did the Dependency Approach go?

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on February 9, 2022 by Christopher Hope (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Feb 21, 2022)

    Capitalism, it seems, had been deemed too messy a concept to provide much use to researchers in explaining phenomena.

  • | Africa was at the centre of Lenins work | MR Online

    Africa was at the centre of Lenin’s work

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on January 27, 2022 by Joe Pateman (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Jan 31, 2022)

    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the father of Bolshevism, never stepped foot in Africa, but his influence upon the continent has been tremendous. Alongside the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Lenin’s revolutionary theories provided the framework for an entire generation of African socialists during the twentieth century.

  • | Plaque Rue Frantz Fanon | MR Online

    ‘Any bystander is a coward or a traitor’ – Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary challenge

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on December 6, 2021 by Timothy Wild (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Dec 07, 2021)

    From the end of May until a few days before Remembrance Day (November 11) flags at Canadian public buildings were flown at half-mast. This unusual occurrence was in recognition of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves containing the remains of Indigenous children on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools.

  • | African Feminisms a decolonial history Féminismes africains une histoire décoloniale Paris Présence Africaine 2021 | MR Online

    African Feminisms–a decolonial history: an interview with Rama Salla Dieng

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on November 19, 2021 by Coumba Kane (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Nov 22, 2021)

    In her new book ‘African Feminisms – a decolonial history’, the Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng interviews feminist activists about their work, struggles and lives. Interviewed by Coumba Kane, Dieng speaks about what it means to be a feminist in Africa today.

  • | Where did the Dependency Approach Go | MR Online

    Where did the dependency approach go?

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on February 9, 2017 by Christopher Hope (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Oct 14, 2021)

    Many commentators and academics interested in African development have in recent decades shown a disinclination or disdain towards incorporating ‘global capitalism’ into their analyses of countries of the continent.

  • | The photo shows an oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company in Olobiri Niger Delta Ed Kashi 2004 The image is taken from the cover of Wengrafs book | MR Online

    Extracting Profits – imperialism, climate change and resistance in Africa

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on October 7, 2021 by Lee Wengraf (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Oct 09, 2021)

    2018 seems like a lifetime ago. When ‘Extracting Profit’ came out that year, the COVID-19 pandemic was two years away. Since then, the world has been plunged into a devastating crisis, with 4.5 million lives lost globally, including close to 200,000 reported deaths on the African continent.

  • | Lenin | MR Online

    Global Lenin

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on September 30, 2021 by Adam Mayer (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Oct 04, 2021)

    The picture presented in the volume is one of the Leninists’ Lenin (with partial exceptions), but he and his co-editors certainly did not aim at conveying a composite historical account that would include every possible voice from Russian Orthodox priests’ through neoliberal pundits’ and new right fascists’, to the Vatican’s or the Taliban’s conception of Lenin and his historical role.

  • | Big Pharma and vaccine apartheid | MR Online

    Big Pharma and vaccine apartheid

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on September 14, 2021 by Cassandra Azumah (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Sep 21, 2021)

    The webinar on ‘Vaccine Imperialism: Scientific Knowledge, Capacity and Production in Africa’ which took place on 5 August 5, 2021, was organized by the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) in partnership with the Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa).

  • | This image was first published in New Frame From the archive Walter Rodneys last speech 25 March 2021 | MR Online

    On Walter Rodney’s Legacy: when anger and organising took over

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on July 29, 2021 by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    As a founding member of the group, Braithwaite explains that though Rodney was betrayed, then assassinated, his body destroyed and concerted efforts made to tarnish his record, people around the world continue to develop and build on his immense legacy.

  • | president Kwame Nkrumah | MR Online

    Kwame Nkrumah and imperialist finance in Africa today

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on July 6, 2021 by Scott Timcke (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Jul 08, 2021)

    More than half a century after Kwame Nkrumah first articulated his magisterial critique of neocolonialism, Scott Timcke argues his critique remains just as relevant in the analysis of present-day developments of capitalism in Africa.

  • | Frantz Fanon speaking at the All African Peoples Conference AAPC which was held in Accra Ghana between 5 and 13 December 1958 | MR Online

    Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution today

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on May 6, 2021 by Hamza Hamouchene (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted May 18, 2021)

    This two-part long read is an extract from a chapter in a forthcoming book Fanon Today: The Revolt and Reason of the Wretched of the Earth (edited by Nigel Gibson, Daraja Press 2021).

  • | Samir Amin | MR Online

    Samir Amin – a Marxist with blood in his veins

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on March 18, 2021 by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Francisco Pérez, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Francesco Macheda, Roberto Nadalini, Fathimath Musthaq, Max Ajl (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    Following the publication of the special issue on Samir Amin, we post short interviews by the authors on the influence of Amin on their lives and research.

  • | Karl Marx Highgate Cemetary North London England circa 1979 | MR Online

    Karl Marx’s debt to people of African descent

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on October 21, 2020 by Biko Agozino (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Oct 23, 2020)

    You do not need to be a Marxist to agree that the methodology of historical materialism is relevant to struggles on the ground in Africa and globally, not only to the European working-class.

  • | Marxism and the Climate Crisis | MR Online

    Marxism and the Climate Crisis: African Eco-Socialist Alternatives

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on February 14, 2020 by Vishwas Satgar (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) (Posted Feb 16, 2020)

    There is a rich inheritance of emancipatory Marxism in Africa, which includes Frantz Fanon, Ruth First, Samir Amin, Sam Moyo, Harold Wolpe and many others. Today, Satgar argues, the challenge is to defeat carbon capitalism accelerating the climate crisis and fomenting exclusionary nationalisms and for this there has to be a return to Marx.

  • | John Molyneux | MR Online

    Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on February 9, 2020 (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))

    In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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