Can strikes save Nigerian universities ? Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu looks at this question by examining the strikes through Marxist and conflict theory lenses, drawing from lecturers’ voices and highlighting the erosion of public education buff.ly/YbvXz2O

🚨ROAPE Volume 52 Issue 185 is out now! Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole mailchi.mp/e3ebab9c8850/r…

ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal, with an editorial: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice 🔥 🔥 🔥 buff.ly/eKa6BYU

“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.” — Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961. 🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥 #Fanon100

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience. buff.ly/1WwZVE7

In an update from our post about Nigerian government arrests, imprisonements and torture from last year, the Abuja 11 finally get justice. Maxwell Adeyemi reports. #Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11 roape.net/2025/12/12/the…

Shreya Parikh looks at how popular narratives of #Tunisia’s 'glorious past' particularly in La Goulette, celebrate colonial-era coexistence by centering white or white-passing European communities while erasing indigenous, Amazigh, and #Black presences. buff.ly/iy6kJZD

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment Dr Sarah Jilani and Chinedu K Chukwudinma respond to the British imperialists at Policy Exchange, who have slandered #Fanon buff.ly/Z0KqSH3

Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100? Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here:

Our 2025 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals roape.net/2026/01/09/roa…

For ROAPE's special issue celebrating Frantz #Fanon100, Richard Pithouse interviews Mqapheli Bonono of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Bonono discusses how the shack dwellers built the Frantz Fanon School amid evictions, assassinations, and state repression. roape.net/2026/01/19/bui…

In her briefing for ROAPE’s Fanon issue, M Haleh revisits post-independence Algerian debates on Frantz Fanon. Focusing on leftist responses to Fanon’s views on the peasantry and communism, she shows why his work remained central after independence. buff.ly/0abvmoe

In this piece, Abdoulie Kurang offers a postcolonial critique of so-called modernity, which positions the West as the ‘civilised’ and ‘civilising’ entity - and the African elite who feeds (on) it. roape.net/2026/01/28/the…

In Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberal ideology. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent. roape.net/2026/01/30/neo…

Writing for roape.net, Antonia Baumgartner argues that behind the promise of peace, a set of recent US-backed agreements have reshaped how the DR Congo’s minerals, infrastructure & political choices are tied to Washington’s strategic priorities. 🇨🇩🫱🏿‍🫲🏽🇺🇸

Some important analysis in ROAPE journal on how recent DRC-US agreements tie Kinshasa to Washington's strategic priorities, coming the day after Glencore announced it's selling 40% stake in its DRC copper & cobalt mines to a US government-backed group. roape.net/2026/02/04/the…

Did Frantz Fanon really have nothing to say about political economy? In ROAPE's #Fanon special issue Peter Hudis argues otherwise, uncovering Fanon’s Marxian insights into labour, socialism, and democratic liberation. buff.ly/jIjmwko

Peter Hudis You can download this Peter Hudis' article and the whole #Fanon special issue for free here: buff.ly/90T41nE