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October 2023, Volume 50, Issue 177-178
- 1-1 Correction
by The Editors - 295-301 The climate emergency in Africa
by Lee Wengraf & Janet Bujra & Chanda Mfula & Elisa Greco & Ray Bush - 302-321 Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis
by Tobias Kalt & Jenny Simon & Johanna Tunn & Jesko Hennig - 322-339 Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo
by Ben Radley - 340-354 Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia
by Jason C. Mueller - 355-373 Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania
by Japhace Poncian & Rasmus Hundsbaek Pedersen - 374-387 The political economy of the climate crisis in Southern Africa
by Grasian Mkodzongi - 388-401 Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency
by Susana Moreno-Maestro - 402-420 (Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan
by Mohamed Salah & Razaz Basheir - 421-438 Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal
by Rocío Hiraldo & Steffen Böhm - 439-459 Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique
by Emilinah Namaganda - 460-474 Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique
by Ruy Llera Blanes - 475-490 Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa
by Peter Gardner & Olalekan Adekola & Tiago Carvalho & Thomas O’Brien - 491-501 South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership
by Alex Lenferna - 502-504 An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’
by Nnimmo Bassey & Lee Wengraf - 505-509 Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa
by Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka - 509-513 Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime
by Zachary J. Patterson - 513-515 Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region
by Elia Apostolopoulou - 516-519 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig & Chinedu Chukwudinma & Ben Radley - 520-524 Volume Index
by The Editors
April 2023, Volume 50, Issue 176
- 147-153 Coups and neo-colonialism
by Bettina Engels - 154-155 Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt
by The Editors - 156-172 Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue
by Elias Aguigah - 173-196 North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming
by Max Ajl & Habib Ayeb & Ray Bush - 197-211 From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg
by Luke Sinwell & Trevor Ngwane & Terri Maggott - 212-233 Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda
by Luke Melchiorre - 234-242 Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia
by Jon Abbink - 243-250 Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia: countering attempts to silence alternative voices
by Fana Gebresenbet & Yonas Tariku - 251-260 Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia
by Dhouha Djerbi - 261-271 Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–2021
by Vincent Chenzi & Admire Ndamba - 272-289 Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article
by Colin Darch - 290-293 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig & Chinedu Chukwudinma & Ben Radley
January 2023, Volume 50, Issue 175
- 1-8 Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity
by Elisa Greco - 9-25 Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan
by Stefan Bakumenko - 26-48 Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency
by Gennaro Gervasio & Andrea Teti - 49-70 Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership): understanding the persistence of unfree Fulani labour and the (non)violent renegotiation of power relations in agrarian economies in northern Ghana
by Surulola Eke - 71-89 He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia
by James Musonda - 90-95 Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)
by Reem Abou-El-Fadl - 96-106 The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?
by Fana Gebresenbet & Yonas Tariku - 107-115 The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections
by Martin Bekker - 116-124 Africa’s unequal balance
by Osama Diab - 125-137 Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria
by Luke A. Amadi & Fidelis Allen & Zainab L. Mai-Bornu - 138-142 Africa Development
by Ray Bush - 143-145 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig & Chinedu Chukwudinma & Ben Radley
October 2022, Volume 49, Issue 174
- 523-530 The return of recession, debt and structural adjustment
by Peter Lawrence - 531-549 Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers
by Tom Gillespie & Seth Schindler - 550-568 Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria
by Aloysius-Michaels Okolie & Kelechi Elijah Nnamani & Chikodiri Nwangwu & Humphrey Nwobodo Agbo & Chinedu Cyril Ike - 569-583 How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta
by Tarila Marclint Ebiede - 584-600 Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain
by Noam Chen-Zion - 601-610 Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa
by Hannah Cross - 611-623 Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective
by Buhari Shehu Miapyen & Umut Bozkurt - 624-633 Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana
by Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo - 634-642 The role of subordinate financialisation in Egypt’s employment crisis
by Osama Diab - 643-651 Tanzania’s solidarity tax
by Francis Nyonzo - 652-654 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig & Chinedu Chukwudinma & Ben Radley - 655-659 Volume Index
by The Editors
July 2022, Volume 49, Issue 173
- 369-389 Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders?
by Reginald Cline-Cole - 390-391 Ruth First Prize
by The Editors - 392-394 The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, ‘solutions’ and resistance
by Lee Wengraf - 395-416 Crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum’s scramble for mining rights, 1995–2019
by Musa Nxele - 417-435 Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa
by Phillan Zamchiya - 436-451 ‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa
by Tapiwa Madimu - 452-471 Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe
by Prolific S. Mataruse & Sally Matthews - 472-486 Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed
by Nataliya Mykhalchenko & Jörg Wiegratz - 487-497 Bilateral trade and politico-administrative border relations in Africa: an analysis of the case of Nigeria and Benin Republic
by Paul Hezekiah Omeh & Ifeanyichukwu Michael Abada & Celestine Chijioke Onah & Ngozika Josephine Anozie & Benjamin Amujiri - 498-506 Africa’s lion economies and their gendered impacts: lessons from Asia
by Niamh Gaynor - 507-519 Development of the Blue Economy concept in Eastern Africa: strategic frameworks and a simmering conflict
by Claire A. Amuhaya & Denis A. Degterev - 520-522 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig & Chinedu Chukwudinma & Ben Radley
April 2022, Volume 49, Issue 172
- 201-208 Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies
by Bettina Engels - 209-225 Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa
by Mondli Hlatshwayo - 226-245 Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013
by Martin Bekker - 246-263 Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria
by Olayinka Ajala - 264-286 Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front
by Shahenda Suliman - 287-302 The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism
by Joe Pateman - 303-314 Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana
by Christian John Makgala & Ikanyeng Stonto Malila - 315-326 Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso
by Bettina Engels - 327-338 Elections, constituency consultation and political representation in Boko Haram-affected areas in Nigeria
by Osaze Omoragbon & Nafisatu Irene Okhade - 339-354 Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia
by Terrence Lyons & Aly Verjee - 355-360 Climate catastrophe: the struggle continues
by Janet Bujra - 361-364 Improvement and change in rural Tanzania
by Andrew Coulson - 365-368 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig
January 2022, Volume 49, Issue 171
- 1-10 Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage
by Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco & Elisa Greco - 11-45 The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique
by Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco - 46-66 Financialisation, narrow specialisation of production and capital accumulation in Mozambique
by Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco & Diogo Maia - 67-86 Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system
by Rosimina Ali & Sara Stevano - 87-106 The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique
by Carlos Muianga - 107-137 Class, politics and dynamic accumulation processes around the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, 2005–2014
by Ana Sofia Ganho - 138-160 Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve
by Natacha Bruna - 161-172 Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation
by Ewa Karwowski - 173-183 Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency
by Tim Zajontz - 184-191 The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on
by Portia Roelofs - 192-194 Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War
by Mohamed Chamekh - 194-196 Migration beyond capitalism
by Sophia Hayat Taha - 197-199 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig
October 2021, Volume 48, Issue 170
- 497-508 Extractive capitalism and hard and soft power in the age of Black Lives Matter
by Reginald Cline-Cole & Peter Lawrence - 509-528 Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood
by Camille Reyniers - 529-551 Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania
by Japhace Poncian - 552-580 Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria
by Victor Chidubem Iwuoha - 581-608 Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015
by Okorie Albert & Ifeanyichukwu Abada & Raymond Adibe - 609-629 Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class
by Joshua Lew McDermott - 630-645 Contested compensation: the politics, economics and legal nuances of compensating white former commercial farmers in Zimbabwe
by Philani Moyo - 646-655 Land and the limits of liberal legalism: property, transitional justice and non-reformist reforms in post-apartheid South Africa
by Matthew Evans - 656-666 Seeking social justice in crisis: socio-economic rights and citizenship in post-2000 Zimbabwe
by Kristina Pikovskaia - 667-668 The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state
by Filip Reyntjens - 668-670 The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls
by Mike Chipere - 670-673 Political protest in contemporary Kenya: change and continuities
by Njuki Githethwa - 674-676 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig - 677-681 Volume Index
by The Editors
July 2021, Volume 48, Issue 169
- 325-330 Capitalism, resources and inequality in a climate emergency
by Peter Lawrence - 331-332 Ruth First Prize
by The Editors - 333-351 Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies
by Franziska Müller & Simone Claar - 352-368 Rebuilding hegemony: passive revolution, state transformation and South Africa’s steel sector
by Ricardo Reboredo - 369-384 When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa
by Nomtha Gray - 385-402 Staking a claim: law, inequality and the city in South Africa
by Julian Brown - 403-419 Cooperatives and the reorganisation of labour-intensive production in South Africa’s clothing industry
by Nicoli Nattrass & Jeremy Seekings - 420-441 Janus-faced presidents: extroverted and introverted politics in oil-age Niger
by Jannik Schritt - 442-451 Covid-19 containment policies in Nigeria: the role of conflictual federal–state relations in the fight against the pandemic
by Ernest Toochi Aniche & Victor Chidubem Iwuoha & Kelechukwu Charles Obi - 452-461 Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: a threat to the means of livelihood of artisanal fishers in South South region, Nigeria
by Samuel A. Asua & Michael I. Ugwueze & Vincent C. Onah - 462-472 Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states?
by Gabriel Ozekhome Igechi - 473-484 Bendix and Ndlovu-Gatsheni in dialogue: conceptualising the (de)colonial, knowledge and development
by Felix Mantz - 485-487 Ethiopia in theory: revolution and knowledge production, 1964–2016
by Michael Kebede - 488-490 Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence
by Melusi Nkomo - 490-492 The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike
by Abdul-Salam Ibrahim - 493-496 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig
April 2021, Volume 48, Issue 168
- 153-160 Extractivism, informal work and strategies for political-economic transformation
by Bettina Engels - 161-177 Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
by Ben Radley & Sara Geenen - 178-195 The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets
by Christoph Vogel - 196-216 Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala
by Graeme Young - 217-234 Battle for legitimacy: revisiting autochthony and (re)invented authority in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas
by Edmore Mwandiringana & Jingzhong Ye - 235-256 ‘More than a million’: the politics of accounting for the dead of the Rwandan genocide
by Luc Reydams - 257-275 The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing
by Elizabeth le Roux - 276-288 Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda
by Ivan Ashaba - 289-304 Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa
by Nataliya Mykhalchenko & Jörg Wiegratz - 305-313 Financialisation of politics: the political economy of Egypt’s counterrevolution
by Hesham Shafick - 314-315 Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir
by Justin Theodra - 315-320 Class, work and whiteness: race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79
by Alex Callinicos - 321-323 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
by Leo Zeilig
January 2021, Volume 48, Issue 167
- 1-7 Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy
by Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven & Maria Dyveke Styve & Ushehwedu Kufakurinani - 8-14 Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin
by Jayati Ghosh - 15-31 Dependency in a financialised global economy
by Fathimath Musthaq - 32-49 Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution
by Ndongo Samba Sylla - 50-65 Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin
by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni - 66-81 The gender of dependency theory: women as workers, from neocolonialism in West Africa to the implosion of contemporary capitalism
by Catherine Scott - 82-101 The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation
by Max Ajl - 102-118 East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too?
by Francisco Pérez - 119-141 Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy
by Francesco Macheda & Roberto Nadalini - 142-152 Samir Amin and Eastern Europe
by Annamária Artner
October 2020, Volume 47, Issue 166
- 511-521 Africa, extractivism and the crisis this time
by Elisa Greco - 522-544 Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal’s agro-industrial transformation
by Maura Benegiamo - 545-567 The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya
by Matteo Capasso - 568-584 Sugar production dynamics in Zimbabwe: an analysis of contract farming at Hippo Valley
by Freedom Mazwi - 585-603 Africa–EU relations and natural resource governance: understanding African agency in historical and contemporary perspective
by Duncan Money & Hans Otto Frøland & Tshepo Gwatiwa - 604-620 Mining-induced violent resistance: the case of salt mining near Keta lagoon
by Alhassan Atta-Quayson & Amina H. Baidoo - 621-637 So many ‘Africanists’, so few Africans: reshaping our understanding of ‘African politics’ through greater nuance and amplification of African voices
by Zack Zimbalist - 638-650 Creaming off commodity profits: Europe’s re-export boom and Africa’s earnings crisis in the coffee and cocoa sectors
by Angus Elsby - 651-661 Africa’s Blue Economy: potentials and challenges for more locally beneficial development
by Eddy Akpomera - 662-675 Oil and its discontents: the political economy of artisanal refining in Nigeria
by Agaptus Nwozor & John Olanrewaju & Modupe Ake & Onjefu Okidu - 676-686 Does political settlements analysis capture the unsettling politics of oil in Africa?
by Nelson Oppong - 687-688 Contested extractivism, society and the state: struggles over mining and land
by Ray Bush - 688-690 Globalised authoritarianism: megaprojects, slums, and class relations in urban Morocco
by Ray Bush - 691-695 Volume Index
by The Editors
April 2020, Volume 47, Issue 164
- 169-196 Socially distanced capitalism in a time of coronavirus
by Reginald Cline-Cole - 197-198 Ruth First Prize
by The Editors - 199-219 Oil production, environmental pressures and other sources of violent conflict in Nigeria
by Isidore Udoh - 220-237 Chinese investment in the Sierra Leone telecommunications sector: international financial institutions, neoliberalism and organisational fields
by Aaron C. van Klyton & Said Rutabayiro-Ngoga & Lakmal Liyanage - 238-255 Campaign funding laws and the political economy of money politics in Nigeria
by G. S. Mmaduabuchi Okeke & Uche Nwali - 256-274 Finance, infrastructure and urban capital: the political economy of African ‘gap-filling’
by Tom Goodfellow - 275-290 The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa
by Jean-Claude N. Ashukem - 291-300 Conditional cash transfer and education under neoliberalism in Nigeria: inequality, poverty and commercialisation in the school sector
by Ikedinachi K. Ogamba - 301-312 Zimbabwe's 2018 elections: funding, public resources and vote buying
by Musiwaro Ndakaripa - 313-323 Crisis of political leadership in Zimbabwe
by Mike Chipere - 324-334 The imagined Africa of the West: a critical perspective on Western imaginations of Africa
by Rune Larsen & Stig Jensen - 335-345 The African hero in Mozambican history: on assassinations and executions – Part II
by John S. Saul - 346-348 Power relations of development: the case of dam construction in the Nubian homeland, Sudan
by Abeer R. Y. Abazeed - 349-349 Correction
by The Editors
July 2020, Volume 47, Issue 163
- 1-9 Africa – coping with the ‘new normal’
by Alfred Zack-Williams - 10-26 Have the social classes of yesterday vanished from Africanist issues or are African societies made up of new classes? A French anthropologist’s perspective
by Jean Copans - 27-44 Safety and health before and after Marikana: subcontracting, illegal mining and trade union rivalry in the South African mining industry
by Paul Stewart & Andries Bezuidenhout & Christine Bischoff - 45-58 The strategies and tactics of fighting against precarisation of work: a comparative study of precarious workers’ struggles in two South African municipalities
by Lawrence Ntuli - 59-77 The politics of youth struggles for land in post-land reform Zimbabwe
by Fadzai Chipato & Libin Wang & Ting Zuo & George T. Mudimu - 78-94 From war to wealth? Land policies and the peace economy in Côte d’Ivoire
by Jacobo Grajales - 95-105 Digital labour at economic margins: African workers and the global information economy
by Mohammad Amir Anwar & Mark Graham - 106-114 China’s involvement in the trans-Saharan textile trade and industry in Nigeria: the case of Kano
by Murtala Muhammad & Ramatu Buba & Muhammad Danial Azman & Abubakar Ahmed - 115-125 The political economy of automobile development in Nigeria
by Michael I. Ugwueze & Christian C. Ezeibe & Jonah I. Onuoha - 126-134 Poverty and living conditions with Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin: the case of southeastern Niger
by Youssoufou Hamadou Daouda - 135-143 Why inequality persists in Africa
by Franklin Obeng-Odoom - 144-152 Samir Amin's contribution to historical materialism
by Morten Ougaard - 153-165 The African hero in Mozambican history: on assassinations and executions – Part I
by John S. Saul - 166-168 Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place
by Douglas Booth
July 2020, Volume 46, Issue 162
- 529-534 Egypt under military rule
by Ray Bush & Elisa Greco - 535-548 Land, politics and dynamics of agrarian change and resistance in North Africa
by Mathilde Fautras & Giulio Iocco - 549-566 Grabbing from below: a study of land reclamation in Egypt
by Saker El Nour - 567-581 The social life of wheat and grapes: domestic land-grabbing as accumulation by dispossession in rural Egypt
by Yasmine Moataz Ahmed - 582-598 Peasants, dispossession and resistance in Egypt: an analysis of protest movements and organisations before and after the 2011 uprising
by Francesco de Lellis - 599-614 Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system: a region in the third food regime
by Christian Henderson - 615-631 Land deals, and how not all states react the same: Zambia and the Chinese request
by Marie Widengård - 632-664 Connections 3: ROAPE workshop in Johannesburg, 26–27 November 2018
by Peter Dwyer & Fatou Diouf & Grasian Mkodzongi & Beesan Kasaab & Didier Kiendrebeogo & Mohamed Traore & Naome Chakanya & Njuki Githethwa & Fatou Diouf & Grasian Mkodzongi & Beesan Kasaab & Didier Kiendrebeogo & Mohamed Traore & Naome Chakanya & Njuki Githethwa - 665-672 Rwanda poverty debate: summarising the debate and estimating consistent historical trends
by Maurice Okito - 673-685 The impact of Brexit on francophone Africa
by Dirk Kohnert