04 Jan Chasing Fraud and Profit
In her second contribution Nataliya Mykhalchenko asks what is the result of anti-fraud measures in Africa and if the failure of initiatives to tackle fraud may be because they fail...
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04 Jan Being Cheated by Family
In her research in Uganda Malin Nystrand found how employing relatives is seen as a social obligation, not as a contribution to the business, and most business owners find these...
04 Jan In the Name of the People
Miles Larmer reviews Lara Pawson's In the Name of the People, seeing in the book an exploration of the disillusionment with African national liberation. These are lessons, Miles writes, that...
04 Jan Radical Agendas #3: The Numsa Moment
In the third installment of our series Radical Agendas in South Africa, Eddie Webster asks if left activists in the labour movement have the political imagination and energy to take...
23 Dec Gaming, Naming and Shaming ‘Licit Financial Flows’
In August 2015 Patrick Bond was invited to speak at a meeting in Harare organised by TrustAfrica’s ‘Stop the Bleeding’ project run by Briggs Bomba, this is a summary of...
18 Dec Structural Transformation and Economic Development in Africa
In this extended report on a far-reaching and radical workshop held in Ghana in July 2015 on equitable development and transformation, Peter Lawrence and Yao Graham describe the debates and...
17 Dec Structural Transformation in Africa
Peter Lawrence's report on the workshop, 'Employment, Structural Transformation and Equitable Economic Development in Africa' co-sponsored by ROAPE and Third World Network on 20-22 July, 2015, in Accra, Ghana....
17 Dec Radical Agendas #2: Community Resistance from Below
In the second installment of Radical Agendas in South Africa, Dale McKinley examines the development of community struggles since 1994. McKinley argues that the transition to democracy and the ANC’s...
17 Dec Letters and Memories: Ruth First and the Review’s Early Days
Peter Lawrence reflects on the early days of the Review of African Political Economy, the role Ruth First played in the Review's first issues and an important argument about ...
09 Dec The Roots of Africa’s Condition
With the launch of our our new website we reflect on how the Review of African Political Economy was established in 1974. ROAPE was founded with the aim to ‘examine...