Every quarter roape.net posts extracts from the introductions to our print journal. In this quarters issue (Vol. 44, Issue 153) Hannah Cross writes about the widespread revolt against neo-liberalism in an issue that addresses the ‘attacks on gender relations and rights, workers and standards of...
Recent protest in Togo have seen clashes with the police and a certain amount of street violence, but the scale has been unprecedented, with organisers claiming that as many as 800,000 people took to the streets across the country in August 2017. In the latest...
On the launch of the English edition of Zohra Drif's extraordinary autobiography 'Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter', Sarah Grey spends an evening with Algeria's national-liberation heroine in Washington. In unflinching detail and with piercing honesty, Drif describes the struggle...
In a scathing appraisal of Liberia’s president ahead of elections in October, Robtel Neajai Pailey and Korto Reeves Williams argue that the over-glorification of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as a feminist icon is deeply troubling. Sirleaf’s 12-year presidency has actually served the interests of a small,...
With results annulled in an historic decision by the country's Supreme Court, Kenyans return not just to the polls but to the campaigns. Geoffrey Lugano asks what can the opposition learn from the first round if it not only wants to avoid malpractice, but also...
In the first of a two-part blogpost, Matt Swagler considers how the Russian Revolution drew the attention of Black intellectuals and workers from Africa and across the African diaspora. He argues that the revolution cemented the importance of Marxist ideas in debates about colonial and...
ROAPE’s Janet Bujra discusses life and politics with Marjorie Mbilinyi, a fighter for gender and class equality on the continent. The interview is a powerful and critical account of fifty years of campaigning against patriarchal oppression on many fronts in Tanzania, in which Mbilinyi has...
In this tribute to Abdul Raufu Mustapha, his friend and comrade Jibrin Ibrahim remembers a scholar and activist who devoted his life to the burning issues of poverty, inequality and the crumbling social order, all of which have wreaked havoc on Nigerian society. ...
In an analysis of the Kenyan elections, Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis argue that the results look much more credible than any since 2002. Yet the country is still deeply divided, and with an opposition weakened by electoral loss, and with diminished credibility....
Ken Post, who died earlier this year, was a restless Marxist, constantly rethinking questions of theory, rebellion and protest. He worked in and wrote about Africa, the Caribbean and South East Asia – uncovering histories of revolt and struggle. David Seddon praises a rebel who...