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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2021, volume 48, articles 170

Extractive capitalism and hard and soft power in the age of Black Lives Matter pp. 497-508

Reginald Cline-Cole and Peter Lawrence

Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood pp. 509-528

Camille Reyniers

Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania pp. 529-551

Japhace Poncian

Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria pp. 552-580

Victor Chidubem Iwuoha

Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015 pp. 581-608

Okorie Albert, Ifeanyichukwu Abada and Raymond Adibe

Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class pp. 609-629

Joshua Lew McDermott

Contested compensation: the politics, economics and legal nuances of compensating white former commercial farmers in Zimbabwe pp. 630-645

Philani Moyo

Land and the limits of liberal legalism: property, transitional justice and non-reformist reforms in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 646-655

Matthew Evans

Seeking social justice in crisis: socio-economic rights and citizenship in post-2000 Zimbabwe pp. 656-666

Kristina Pikovskaia

The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state pp. 667-668

Filip Reyntjens

The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls pp. 668-670

Mike Chipere

Political protest in contemporary Kenya: change and continuities pp. 670-673

Njuki Githethwa

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 674-676

Leo Zeilig

Volume Index pp. 677-681

The Editors

2021, volume 48, articles 169

Capitalism, resources and inequality in a climate emergency pp. 325-330

Peter Lawrence

Ruth First Prize pp. 331-332

The Editors

Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies pp. 333-351

Franziska Müller and Simone Claar

Rebuilding hegemony: passive revolution, state transformation and South Africa’s steel sector pp. 352-368

Ricardo Reboredo

When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa pp. 369-384

Nomtha Gray

Staking a claim: law, inequality and the city in South Africa pp. 385-402

Julian Brown

Cooperatives and the reorganisation of labour-intensive production in South Africa’s clothing industry pp. 403-419

Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

Janus-faced presidents: extroverted and introverted politics in oil-age Niger pp. 420-441

Jannik Schritt

Covid-19 containment policies in Nigeria: the role of conflictual federal–state relations in the fight against the pandemic pp. 442-451

Ernest Toochi Aniche, Victor Chidubem Iwuoha and Kelechukwu Charles Obi

Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: a threat to the means of livelihood of artisanal fishers in South South region, Nigeria pp. 452-461

Samuel A. Asua, Michael I. Ugwueze and Vincent C. Onah

Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states? pp. 462-472

Gabriel Ozekhome Igechi

Bendix and Ndlovu-Gatsheni in dialogue: conceptualising the (de)colonial, knowledge and development pp. 473-484

Felix Mantz

Ethiopia in theory: revolution and knowledge production, 1964–2016 pp. 485-487

Michael Kebede

Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence pp. 488-490

Melusi Nkomo

The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike pp. 490-492

Abdul-Salam Ibrahim

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 493-496

Leo Zeilig

2021, volume 48, articles 168

Extractivism, informal work and strategies for political-economic transformation pp. 153-160

Bettina Engels

Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pp. 161-177

Ben Radley and Sara Geenen

The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets pp. 178-195

Christoph Vogel

Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala pp. 196-216

Graeme Young

Battle for legitimacy: revisiting autochthony and (re)invented authority in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas pp. 217-234

Edmore Mwandiringana and Jingzhong Ye

‘More than a million’: the politics of accounting for the dead of the Rwandan genocide pp. 235-256

Luc Reydams

The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing pp. 257-275

Elizabeth le Roux

Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda pp. 276-288

Ivan Ashaba

Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa pp. 289-304

Nataliya Mykhalchenko and Jörg Wiegratz

Financialisation of politics: the political economy of Egypt’s counterrevolution pp. 305-313

Hesham Shafick

Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir pp. 314-315

Justin Theodra

Class, work and whiteness: race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79 pp. 315-320

Alex Callinicos

Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa pp. 321-323

Leo Zeilig

2021, volume 48, articles 167

Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy pp. 1-7

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Maria Dyveke Styve and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin pp. 8-14

Jayati Ghosh

Dependency in a financialised global economy pp. 15-31

Fathimath Musthaq

Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution pp. 32-49

Ndongo Samba Sylla

Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin pp. 50-65

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

The gender of dependency theory: women as workers, from neocolonialism in West Africa to the implosion of contemporary capitalism pp. 66-81

Catherine Scott

The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation pp. 82-101

Max Ajl

East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too? pp. 102-118

Francisco Perez

Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy pp. 119-141

Francesco Macheda and Roberto Nadalini

Samir Amin and Eastern Europe pp. 142-152

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