Some lovely memories of a wonderful scholar of Mozambique. #Mozambique

In the celebration of the life & work of Alpheus Manghezi his comrades mark a great freedom fighter. As Gottfried Wellmer writes, “If the soul of a human is the capacity to communicate with other humans, then Alpheus was a great soul.” Ray Bush Yao Graham Leeds University Centre for African Studies Centre of African Studies

ROAPE celebrates the life and work of Alpheus Manghezi (1934-2024), researcher, scholar and activist. Manghezi was a citizen of the world and a fighter for the freedom and liberation of all peoples. roape.net/2024/05/24/the…

A revolução começou lá por aquelas bandas…memórias de uma luta🤍 Liberdade, sempre!

Colin Darch argues that it remains vital to remember that between 1974-1975 socialist transformation in Portugal was on the cards and that it was African revolutions in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola that showed the way. Ray Bush Peter Dwyer The Elephant

Colin Darch writes about the Portuguese revolution on 25 April 1974. This was the  “fourth revolution” alongside Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola. It was African leaders such as Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel and Agostinho Neto who were showing the way.
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Arguably one of the most articulate, Marxist public intellectuals of our time.

Son of dramatist, poet, and activist Robert Serumaga, Kalundi is a student of Prof. Dani Nabudere.

(L-R) Kalundi, Sir Edward Mutesa II, & David Rubadiri. Inside LR4 dept of Literature, MUK.

ROAPE contributor, Kalundi Serumaga, is a Ugandan Marxist, activists and writer. ROAPE urges our readers to support Serumaga to keep radical writing, politics and opinion alive in Uganda and East Africa Kalundi Serumaga Yusuf Serunkuma🌹 Ambreena Manji patreon.com/user?u=67254178

ROAPE's Hannah Cross writes for Monthly Review on the ongoing migration crisis for West Africa:

Return of the Atlantic Route from West Africa to Europe: Imperialism and Regional (De-)Integration

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friends, I’ve been spring cleaning and came across several copies of my last two novels (An Ounce and The World). If you fancy a read or know anyone looking for political/left-wing fiction (centred on Africa), message me with your address and I will pop a copy in the post.

In a new ROAPE journal blog, I deliver a critical analysis of the Kenyan government's failure to respond to flooding impacting Nairobi's informal settlements and explore how the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) & social justice movement are organizing grassroots responses to the climate crisis.

Here in Kenya, some of us have become so emotionally exhausted that we have stopped talking because some of us are afraid to acknowledge that a problem exists – a problem that could be described as “Kikuyu privilege”, the result of decades of bad politics that emphasised ethnic

When the writer is spot on! Very organic.

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Last month floods left nearly 200 people dead & 200,000 displaced across Kenya. Zachary Patterson reports on the climate disaster that is claiming lives, uprooting communities & the history of resistance. Gacheke Gachihi Vita Books Kenya Ambreena Manji Njuki Githethwa Ukombozi Library

On the evening of 24 April, a deluge of rain led to flooding that decimated communities along the Mathare and Getathuru rivers in Nairobi, Kenya. Zachary Patterson reports on the climate disaster claiming lives and activists resisting state brutality. roape.net/2024/05/16/ins…

'Opposition to French imperialists in West Africa is certainly not necessarily progressive,' warns Salvador Ousmane.

It is refreshing to read an anti-imperialist argument that dares to be critical of authoritarian regimes mouthing anti-imperialist rhetoric.

Ein interessanter Artikel, der einige Fragen näher beleuchtet, z.B. warum die Währungsfrage und die Unterstützung für eine neue Militärregierung trotz der anti-imperialistischen Proteste nicht zwangsläufig eine wirklich anti-imperialistische Politik bedeuten.

ROAPE journal (The Review of African Political Economy) is a journal committed to providing radical analyses of trends, issues and social processes in #Africa , adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. See the #INTEGRATOR on their website: roape.net/about-roape/

ROAPE's Hakim Adi has been awarded the Outstanding African Studies Award 2024. We are delighted that our comrade, and courageous fighter, has been recognised for the militant and brilliant work he had produced over decades.

Salvador Ousmane argues that calls for a new currency to replace the CFA and anti-French sentiment in West Africa is being used to deflect attention from on-going popular struggles against poverty and austerity. Femi Aborisade Peter Dwyer Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Ken Olende Gacheke Gachihi