In this interview, Pascal Bianchini speaks to filmmaker Billy Woodberry, regarding ‘Mario’, a film about Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan liberation hero...

By Pascal Bianchini In this interview, Mamadou Koné, curator at the Musée historique des forces armées du Sénégal, looks back at the long history of...

ROAPE’s Peter Dwyer interviews the South African socialist David Hemson. Hemson was a leading labour militant and trade unionist during the mass working class uprising and strikes in Durban in 1973. In this introduction to the videoed interviews, Peter Dwyer discusses working class politics and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, a history often forgotten or marginalised in popular accounts.

In an interview with ROAPE, Micheline Ravololonarisoa discusses the history of Madagascar, French colonialism and the remarkable student movement in 1972 which she was one of the leaders as a member of the strike committee. Coming from a non-political family, Micheline became a student leader, and then a pan-African activist, based in Kenya, and forced into exile from the continent. She reflects on a life of activism, and Madagascar’s place in Africa.

ROAPE interviews Mark Duffield about his life and work. For decades Mark has worked on the political philosophy of the permanent emergency, the current global crisis in capitalism, the war economy, and the political and economic situation in the Horn of Africa. From his early days growing up in the West Midlands, to his research in Sudan, and later examining the militant struggles of Indian workers in the UK, Duffield has spent a lifetime examining at the central dynamics underpinning our interconnected world of genocide and imperialism.