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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2017, volume 44, articles 154

Political economies of the everyday pp. 513-521

Alfred Zack-Williams

Ruth First prize pp. 522-522

The Editors

Africa’s next debt crisis: regulatory dilemmas and radical insights pp. 523-540

Carolyn Bassett

How far does neoliberalism go in Egypt? Gender, citizenship and the making of the ‘rural’ woman pp. 541-558

Karim Malak and Sara Salem

‘Only the people can defend this struggle’: the politics of the everyday, extrajudicial executions and civil society in Mathare, Kenya pp. 559-576

Peris S. Jones, Wangui Kimari and Kavita Ramakrishnan

Reform and counter-reform in Kenya's land governance pp. 577-594

Jacqueline M. Klopp and Odenda Lumumba

Gendering the extraverted state: the politics of the Kenyan sex workers’ movement pp. 595-610

Eglė Česnulytė

Military corruption in war: stealing and connivance among Zimbabwean foot soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1998–2002) pp. 611-623

Godfrey Maringira

Ambivalent outcomes of statebuilding: multiplication of brokers and educational expansion in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2004–13) pp. 624-642

Cyril Owen Brandt

A tribute to Ken Post, 1935–2017 pp. 643-645

Robin Cohen

The Russian Revolution and the development challenge – Part I: the Russian Revolution and a myriad of global cleavages pp. 646-653

Arndt Hopfmann

For a multidimensional class analysis in Africa pp. 654-661

Joël Noret

Eritrea: a mafia state? pp. 662-672

Martin Plaut

The impact of Chinese textile imperialism on Nigeria’s textile industry and trade: 1960–2015 pp. 673-682

Murtala Muhammad, Mansur Ibrahim Mukhtar and Kafilah Gold

Neoliberal moral economy: capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda pp. 683-684

Stefano Ponte

Volume index pp. 685-689

The Editors

2017, volume 44, articles 153

Neoliberalism, labour power and democracy – the sense of an ending pp. 353-357

Hannah Cross

Neoliberal democratisation, colonial legacies and the rise of the non-state provision of social welfare in West Africa pp. 358-380

Lauren M. MacLean

A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa pp. 381-398

Hannah Cross and Lionel Cliffe

The International Labour Organization and African trade unions: tripartite fantasies and enduring struggles pp. 399-414

Nick Bernards

Institutionalised conflict, subaltern worker rebellions and insurgent unionism: casual workers’ organisation and power resources in the South African Post Office pp. 415-431

David Dickinson

‘We recommend compliance’: bargaining and leverage in Ethiopian–US intelligence cooperation pp. 432-448

Sobukwe Odinga

China and Namibia, 1990 to 2015: how a new actor changes the dynamics of political economy pp. 449-465

Gregor Dobler

The myth of economic growth in Africa pp. 466-475

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Oil and democratisation in Ghana pp. 476-486

Ehis Michael Odijie

Beyond forceful measures: Tanzania’s ‘war on poaching’ needs diversified strategies more than militarised tactics pp. 487-498

Mathew Bukhi Mabele

The difference that ‘capitalism’ makes: on the merits and limits of critical political economy in African Studies pp. 499-509

Stefan Ouma

Africa and International Relations in the 21st century pp. 510-511

Samuel Oyewole

2017, volume 44, articles 152

Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa pp. 173-188

Vito Laterza and John Sharp

Towards a life of poverty and uncertainty? The livelihood strategies of Gécamines workers after retrenchment in the DRC pp. 189-203

Benjamin Rubbers

Money, migration and masculinity among artisanal miners in Katanga (DR Congo) pp. 204-219

Jeroen Cuvelier

Multiple livelihoods and social relations in the South African Lowveld, 1986–2013 pp. 220-236

Kees (C. S.) van der Waal

After the mines: the changing social and economic landscape of Malawi–South Africa migration pp. 237-251

Jessica A. Johnson

From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism: worker safety on South African mines,.1955–2016 pp. 252-271

Paul Stewart and Dhiraj Kumar Nite

? Mining in South Africa in the last 30 years – an overview pp. 272-291

Hugh Macmillan

Contested labour and political leadership: three mineworkers’ unions after the opposition victory in Zambia pp. 292-311

Esther Uzar

The 2015 general elections in Nigeria: new media, party politics and the political economy of voting pp. 312-321

Mala Mustapha

Liberia’s run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics pp. 322-335

Robtel Neajai Pailey and David Harris

Assembling effective industrial policy in Africa: an agenda for action pp. 336-345

Pádraig Carmody

A flawed freedom: rethinking southern African liberation; South Africa – the present as history: from Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana pp. 346-351

Peter Lawrence

2017, volume 44, articles 151

On political economies of governance and resistance to (mis)rule pp. 1-9

Reginald Cline-Cole

For richer, for poorer: why ethnicity often trumps economic cleavages in Kenya pp. 10-29

Biniam E. Bedasso

Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone pp. 30-46

Felix Marco Conteh

Statistics versus livelihoods: questioning Rwanda’s pathway out of poverty pp. 47-65

An Ansoms, Esther Marijnen, Giuseppe Cioffo and Jude Murison

The politics of recognition, and the manufacturing of citizenship and identity in Senegal’s decentralised charcoal market pp. 66-84

Papa Faye

Rethinking peace-building practices through the Somaliland experience pp. 85-103

Marta Regina Fernández y Garcia

Mozambican economic porosity and the role of Brazilian capital: a political economy analysis pp. 104-121

Isabela Nogueira, Ossi Ollinaho, Eduardo Costa Pinto, Grasiela Baruco, Alexis Saludjian, José Paulo Guedes Pinto, Paulo Balanco and Carlos Schonerwald

Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform pp. 122-130

Ruth Hall and Thembela Kepe

Beyond ethnicity: the violence in Western Uganda and Rwenzori’s 99 problems pp. 131-141

Anna Reuss and Kristof Titeca

The African middle class(es) – in the middle of what? pp. 142-154

Henning Melber

Burkina Faso: from Thomas Sankara to popular resistance pp. 155-164

Leo Zeilig

Understanding Eritrea: inside Africa's most repressive state pp. 165-169

Habtom Yohannes

Africa: why economists get it wrong pp. 170-172

Alfred Zack-Williams