Review of African Political Economy

1997 - 2023

Current editor(s): Graham Harrison, Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Claire Mercer, Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Aurelia Segatti and Ray Bush

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2023, volume 50, articles 177-178

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

The climate emergency in Africa pp. 295-301

Lee Wengraf, Janet Bujra, Chanda Mfula, Elisa Greco and Ray Bush

Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis pp. 302-321

Tobias Kalt, Jenny Simon, Johanna Tunn and Jesko Hennig

Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo pp. 322-339

Ben Radley

Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia pp. 340-354

Jason C. Mueller

Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania pp. 355-373

Japhace Poncian and Rasmus Hundsbaek Pedersen

The political economy of the climate crisis in Southern Africa pp. 374-387

Grasian Mkodzongi

Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency pp. 388-401

Susana Moreno-Maestro

(Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan pp. 402-420

Mohamed Salah and Razaz Basheir

Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal pp. 421-438

Rocío Hiraldo and Steffen Böhm

Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique pp. 439-459

Emilinah Namaganda

Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique pp. 460-474

Ruy Llera Blanes

Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa pp. 475-490

Peter Gardner, Olalekan Adekola, Tiago Carvalho and Thomas O’Brien

South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership pp. 491-501

Alex Lenferna

An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’ pp. 502-504

Nnimmo Bassey and Lee Wengraf

Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa pp. 505-509

Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka

Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime pp. 509-513

Zachary J. Patterson

Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region pp. 513-515

Elia Apostolopoulou

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 516-519

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley

Volume Index pp. 520-524

The Editors

2023, volume 50, articles 176

Coups and neo-colonialism pp. 147-153

Bettina Engels

Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt pp. 154-155

The Editors

Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue pp. 156-172

Elias Aguigah

North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming pp. 173-196

Max Ajl, Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush

From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg pp. 197-211

Luke Sinwell, Trevor Ngwane and Terri Maggott

Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda pp. 212-233

Luke Melchiorre

Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia pp. 234-242

Jon Abbink

Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia: countering attempts to silence alternative voices pp. 243-250

Fana Gebresenbet and Yonas Tariku

Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia pp. 251-260

Dhouha Djerbi

Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–2021 pp. 261-271

Vincent Chenzi and Admire Ndamba

Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article pp. 272-289

Colin Darch

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 290-293

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley

2023, volume 50, articles 175

Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity pp. 1-8

Elisa Greco

Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan pp. 9-25

Stefan Bakumenko

Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency pp. 26-48

Gennaro Gervasio and Andrea Teti

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 pp. 49-70

Surulola Eke

He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia pp. 71-89

James Musonda

Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023) pp. 90-95

Reem Abou-El-Fadl

The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia? pp. 96-106

Fana Gebresenbet and Yonas Tariku

The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections pp. 107-115

Martin Bekker

Africa’s unequal balance pp. 116-124

Osama Diab

Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria pp. 125-137

Luke A. Amadi, Fidelis Allen and Zainab L. Mai-Bornu

Africa Development pp. 138-142

Ray Bush

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 143-145

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley

2022, volume 49, articles 174

The return of recession, debt and structural adjustment pp. 523-530

Peter Lawrence

Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers pp. 531-549

Tom Gillespie and Seth Schindler

Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria pp. 550-568

Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, Kelechi Elijah Nnamani, Chikodiri Nwangwu, Humphrey Nwobodo Agbo and Chinedu Cyril Ike

How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta pp. 569-583

Tarila Marclint Ebiede

Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain pp. 584-600

Noam Chen-Zion

Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa pp. 601-610

Hannah Cross

Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective pp. 611-623

Buhari Shehu Miapyen and Umut Bozkurt

Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana pp. 624-633

Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo

The role of subordinate financialisation in Egypt’s employment crisis pp. 634-642

Osama Diab

Tanzania’s solidarity tax pp. 643-651

Francis Nyonzo

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 652-654

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley

Volume Index pp. 655-659

The Editors

2022, volume 49, articles 173

Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders? pp. 369-389

Reginald Cline-Cole

Ruth First Prize pp. 390-391

The Editors

The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, ‘solutions’ and resistance pp. 392-394

Lee Wengraf

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 pp. 395-416

Musa Nxele

Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 417-435

Phillan Zamchiya

‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 436-451

Tapiwa Madimu

Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe pp. 452-471

Prolific S. Mataruse and Sally Matthews

Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed pp. 472-486

Nataliya Mykhalchenko and Jörg Wiegratz

Bilateral trade and politico-administrative border relations in Africa: an analysis of the case of Nigeria and Benin Republic pp. 487-497

Paul Hezekiah Omeh, Ifeanyichukwu Michael Abada, Celestine Chijioke Onah, Ngozika Josephine Anozie and Benjamin Amujiri

Africa’s lion economies and their gendered impacts: lessons from Asia pp. 498-506

Niamh Gaynor

Development of the Blue Economy concept in Eastern Africa: strategic frameworks and a simmering conflict pp. 507-519

Claire A. Amuhaya and Denis A. Degterev

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 520-522

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley

2022, volume 49, articles 172

Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies pp. 201-208

Bettina Engels

Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa pp. 209-225

Mondli Hlatshwayo

Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013 pp. 226-245

Martin Bekker

Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria pp. 246-263

Olayinka Ajala

Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front pp. 264-286

Shahenda Suliman

The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism pp. 287-302

Joe Pateman

Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana pp. 303-314

Christian John Makgala and Ikanyeng Stonto Malila

Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso pp. 315-326

Bettina Engels

Elections, constituency consultation and political representation in Boko Haram-affected areas in Nigeria pp. 327-338

Osaze Omoragbon and Nafisatu Irene Okhade

Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia pp. 339-354

Terrence Lyons and Aly Verjee

Climate catastrophe: the struggle continues pp. 355-360

Janet Bujra

Improvement and change in rural Tanzania pp. 361-364

Andrew Coulson

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 365-368

Leo Zeilig

2022, volume 49, articles 171

Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage pp. 1-10

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco and Elisa Greco

The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique pp. 11-45

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco

Financialisation, narrow specialisation of production and capital accumulation in Mozambique pp. 46-66

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco and Diogo Maia

Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system pp. 67-86

Rosimina Ali and Sara Stevano

The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique pp. 87-106

Carlos Muianga

Class, politics and dynamic accumulation processes around the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, 2005–2014 pp. 107-137

Ana Sofia Ganho

Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve pp. 138-160

Natacha Bruna

Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation pp. 161-172

Ewa Karwowski

Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency pp. 173-183

Tim Zajontz

The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on pp. 184-191

Portia Roelofs

Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War pp. 192-194

Mohamed Chamekh

Migration beyond capitalism pp. 194-196

Sophia Hayat Taha

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 197-199

Leo Zeilig