Review of African Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of African Political Economy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa22
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime18
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia16
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region14
Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War13
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots11
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg10
Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe9
Migration beyond capitalism9
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s8
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa7
Africa Development6
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana5
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers5
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria5
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed5
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria5
The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism5
Africa’s unequal balance5
Ruth First Prize4
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa4
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary4
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation4
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies4
How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta3
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza3
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership3
Volume Index3
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia3
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt3
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?3
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity3
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front3
Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria2
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources2
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa2
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism2
Correction2
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta2
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources2
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan2
Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana2
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans2
The military in Zimbabwean politics2
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?2
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)2
Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–20131
Voices for African liberation: conversations with the Review of African Political Economy1
Improvement and change in rural Tanzania1
Overlying and muddled power: the Ciskei Bantustan’s disputed rural governance in the twilight decade of apartheid, c.1985–951
The climate emergency in Africa1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan1
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies1
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique1
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo1
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis1
What is a resource for the people of Western Sahara? A historical synthesis of a socio-territorial issue1
The political economy of the climate crisis in Southern Africa1
Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership): understanding the persistence of unfree Fulani labour and the (non)violent renegotiation of power relations in agrarian economies in northern Ghana1
‘This is like Guadalajara’: politics, identity and the management of natural resources in late colonial Spanish Sahara1
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation1
Workers, protests and trade unions in Africa1
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa1
The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan1
Imperialism and labour: why global migration governance is unnecessary and why it works1
Exploitation, patriarchy and petty commodity production: class, gender and neocolonialism in rural eastern Uganda1
Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue1
ROAPE: looking back to move forward1
Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania1
Chinese capital and economic transformation in Africa: what has changed after Covid-19?1
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship1
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain1
Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa0
Knowledge production for liberation: the Review of African Political Economy 50 years on0
Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia: countering attempts to silence alternative voices0
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria0
Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place0
Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–20210
Financialisation, narrow specialisation of production and capital accumulation in Mozambique0
No smiling for Algerian workers: explaining the modest harvest of the labour movement during the Hirak0
Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique0
Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve0
Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana0
‘Where wealth and power and blood (still) reign as worshipped gods!’ A farewell to Lungisile Ntsebeza0
The crisis of French imperialism: debating military coups in Africa0
A response to Thompson and Mohamed’s accusation of being ‘dead wrong’0
A scholar in struggle0
The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections0
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies0
Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system0
Misrepresenting livestock and crisis in the Horn: a response to Duffield and Stockton0
‘They’re our resources!’ A new frame in the struggle for the liberation of the Sahrawi people0
‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa0
Class, politics and dynamic accumulation processes around the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, 2005–20140
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa0
Global historical materialism and decoloniality0
‘Grounding together’ or digging movements into the ground? South African scholar-activism 30 years after democracy0
Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage0
Eritrea’s foreign festivals: clashes within the exile community0
Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders?0
Africa and permanent (global) wars0
An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’0
Lungisile Ntsebeza: a community-engaged scholar in the struggle to build the voice and agency of the rural poor0
Elections, constituency consultation and political representation in Boko Haram-affected areas in Nigeria0
ROAPE at 50: Envisaging praxis and engaged scholarship in African political economy0
Capitalist development and land struggles in Africa: the role of engaged scholarship0
ROAPE at 50: The Review of African Political Economy and Marxism0
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes0
The role of the public intellectual in higher education in South Africa: the socially engaged research scholarship of Lungisile Ntsebeza0
Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia0
The role of subordinate financialisation in Egypt’s employment crisis0
Crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum’s scramble for mining rights, 1995–20190
Lungisile Ntsebeza, my teacher and my student0
Bilateral trade and politico-administrative border relations in Africa: an analysis of the case of Nigeria and Benin Republic0
ROAPE at 50: A platform for the people, by the people0
Engaged and insurgent scholarship: a reflection0
North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming0
Tanzania’s solidarity tax0
The climate emergency in Africa0
Zimbabwe 1995–2000: rereading Gramsci’s organic intellectual in contemporary working-class struggles0
Tributes on ROAPE’s 50th anniversary0
Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article0
Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity0
Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa0
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving0
Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia0
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa0
ROAPE at 50: It took a village to help me publish my first blog on Roape.net0
Prishani Naidoo: a beautifully diverse, radical and principled tapestry of life, thought and struggle0
Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies0
Imperialism and Africa0
Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa0
Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal0
Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia0
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda0
John Saul, 4 May 1938–23 September 20230
Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency0
The return of recession, debt and structural adjustment0
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa0
Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers0
The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique0
Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency0
Development of the Blue Economy concept in Eastern Africa: strategic frameworks and a simmering conflict0
Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso0
Breaking the North–South divide? Reflections on the 2024 Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order0
Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective0
ROAPE at 50: ROAPE and Zimbabwe: an appreciation0
Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia0
Clearing a path to academia: a tribute to Lungisile Ntsebeza0
Hobsbawm on rebellion in the postcolony: the political economy of armed conflicts in Northern Nigeria0
Coups and neo-colonialism0
Climate catastrophe: the struggle continues0
Send more guns: Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget plan for Africa0
Africa’s lion economies and their gendered impacts: lessons from Asia0
ROAPE at 50: The review in a changing world0
Volume Index0
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa0
An inquiry of Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution in South Africa: reclaiming its value for organisational perspectives0
The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, ‘solutions’ and resistance0
African football migration: aspirations, experiences and trajectories0
(Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan0
The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique0
Traditional authority, democracy and protected areas: a quandary for African states0
Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa0
Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency0
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