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On the 60th anniversary of Kenya's independence, Gathanga Ndung’u criticizes the country for betraying its independence war heroes and aligning with imperialist forces. He points out Kenya's support for Israel and abandonment of Palestinians, alliances with apartheid regimes, and questionable international peacekeeping missions. The article calls for a rethink of Kenya’s foreign policies, realigning with oppressed nations, and rectifying internal betrayals to truly achieve independence.

In an analysis of Kenya’s history, Wairimu Gathimba draws parallels between Kenya's struggle for independence and Palestine's ongoing fight for sovereignty. Gathimba criticizes the West's support for Israeli settlers while labeling Palestinian resistance as terrorism. She argues that, just as Kenya achieved independence through resistance, decolonization and democratic rule is the only resolution to the Palestine conflict.

In the context of Isreali’s mass murder of Palestinians, ROAPE’s Chinedu Chukwudinma writes about Walter Rodney’s uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Rodney’s defence of the methods used by Palestinian freedom fighters contains many lessons for us today. He understood that Palestinian resistance against Israeli state terror is justified irrespective of the means used.

ROAPE contributor, Yusuf Serunkuma, reviews a new book on the loneliness of the left. Left Alone is a highly original collection of urgent stories, reflections and short essays from around the world on the lived experiences of left loneliness from a variety of genres and left political currents. Serunkuma praises a volume that capture struggles in the trenches of authoritarianism, and on the streets of the capitalist world.

ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig interviews the radical journalist, campaigner, and writer Victoria Brittain. Brittain has spent a lifetime exposing the lies and destructions of Western imperialism and celebrating the resistance and hope of those who fight back. For decades, Brittain worked and lived in Africa, and struggled to get the voices of the oppressed heard, and their lives seen.

Roberto Sirvent interviews Koni Benson about her new book Crossroads: I Live Where I Like, that tells a sidelined story of the creation of the city of Cape Town, and the central role of movements led by African women in campaigning for public services. Benson speaks about how today there are over 2 million people in informal settlements, in a so-called ‘World Class’ city in the ‘Rainbow Nation’ - the great myth of the 1994 miracle.

The action proposed by world leaders, their advisors, and corporate lobbyists at the climate talks (COP27) in Egypt are neoliberal, market-based, and focused on preserving a racist and capitalist global order. Introducing a collection of papers on the climate emergency in North Africa, Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and Katie Sandwell denounce mainstream and top-down solutions for an environmental crisis engulfing the region, and continent.

Sixty years after his death from leukemia at the age of 36 on 6 December 1961, and the publication of The Wretched of the Earth, Timothy Wild reviews a new book which reminds us of the relevance of Frantz Fanon. Fanon’s work, Wild argues, continues to engage people by its brilliance, rage, analysis, and hope that the poor can be the authors of their own destiny. 

Mostafa Bassiouny and Anne Alexander explain that discussions of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 rarely mention the workers’ movement, focusing instead on the idea...

Reflecting on African studies, the neo-liberal university, decolonisation and resistance, Ray Bush discuses in an interview with Richard Borowski about what it means to be a scholar-activist working on Africa, and how his teaching and research have been informed by a commitment to the radical transformation of the continent, and the world.