ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The price of becoming your own boss in Uganda’s boda boda industry It is said that Uganda’s vast motorcycle-taxi industry employs more men than any other sector outside agriculture. In Kampala alone, Uganda’s rapidly expanding capital city, estimates suggests there could be upwards of 300,000 moto-taxi (or boda boda) drivers currently in circula
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Food security or seed capture? The colonial potato and Africa’s seed wars It all begins with a potato. Not the kind that nourishes a nation in textbook stories, but a colonial potato. This potato was shipped, tested, rationed, pushed through mission gardens and military supply lines, and ultimately sold as progress.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Charting the evolution of US-led imperialism, 1974-2026 제국주의 구조와 신국제질서, 외채와 구조조정, 군사 개입, 자원 통제의 관점에서 1974년 이후 미국 주도 제국주의의 변화와 지속성을 분석한다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The murder of Professor Jason Arday 제이슨 아데이 교수 피살 사건을 계기로 학계와 사회 구조 내 제도적 인종차별과 폭력을 비판한다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] African migrant workers who cannot return 전 세계 이주노동 착취와 인신매매 시스템에 갇힌 아프리카 노동자의 송환·영사 지원 문제를 분석한다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Of heroes and hero worship? - The Big Conservation Lie 아프리카 보존 원조와 국제 환경 프로그램이 현지 공동체를 배제하며 식민주의적 보존 패러다임을 재생산하는 문제를 다룬다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The homophobia of Pan-African regimes 범아프리카주의를 표방하는 신군정들이 정당성 확보와 사회 통제를 위해 배타적 전통주의 담론을 활용하는 양상을 비판한다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Before there is anything to punish: Burkina Faso’s new citizenship question 부르키나파소 과도정부가 안보 위기를 명분으로 시민권과 종교 교육 선택을 통제하려는 권위주의적 전환을 분석한다.
ROAPE Watch ROAPE Watch: ODA, Regime Change, and African Political Economy ROAPE Watch briefing on ODA, donor dependency, regime change, political legitimacy, and human rights in Africa.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The extraversion of African academic journals 공여국과 ODA 자금이 아프리카 연구·출판 생태계의 외부 의존과 지식 종속을 고착화한 구조를 검토한다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Burkina Faso and the return of political economy 사헬 지역 정권 교체 이후 생산, 분배, 자원 주권 문제가 반제국주의 정치경제학 모델로 재소환되는 과정을 다룬다.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Cashew capitalism – part two The dominant cashew economy had established patterns that outlasted independence in 1974. By then, Amílcar Cabral was already dead, assassinated by Portuguese agents in Conakry the previous year. He never had the opportunity to test his agronomic theories against political realit
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The visionary political economy of Osendé Afana (1930-1966) This year is the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Osendé Afana (1930-1966), the Cameroonian Marxist economist and national liberation leader who died fighting a guerrilla insurgency against the neo-colonial Cameroonian state.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Kenya’s clean cooking crisis The closure of Koko Networks at the beginning of February 2026 elicited an interesting range of reactions in the country. Some cast suspicion on the Kenyan government, claiming that the company was denied the letter of authorization (LoA) because it refused to pay rent to the pol
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] French neocolonialism in Africa This well-written and well-argued volume revisits French political history, especially its colonial (and neocolonial) aspects, which are a blind spot for many historians and political scientists. The intellectual pillar of the book is the notion of ‘electoral imperialism’.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] French neocolonialism in Africa: a history of electoral imperialism (De la démocratie en Françafrique – Une histoire de l’impérialisme electoral) This well-written and well-argued volume revisits French political history, especially its colonial (and neocolonial) aspects, which are a blind spot for many historians and political scientists. The intellectual pillar of the book is the notion of ‘electoral imperialism’.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Is France funding terrorism in the Sahel? Virtually absent before the turn of the century, terrorism has swept across the Sahelian countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, transforming the region into the global epicentre of jihadist violence and accounting for nearly half of all terror-related fatalities worldwide. O
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The body keeps the score Before there was a Commission, there were generations who died too young – not because of bad genes, but because of stolen land, unpaid labour, and a minority world that extracted everything it could and called it progress.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The miners’ anger Shops looted, police stations ransacked, roads barricaded, buses damaged, lorries burnt. The artisanal miners of Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces – the cobalt and copper heartland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – are angry. In January 2026, Congolese media outlet
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Editorial – The South African Communist Party This journal was founded during a period when the socialist transformation of newly independent countries of Africa and Asia was on the agenda and the existence of the communist party-led socialist state of Cuba was a reality in Latin America. We made no bones about aiming to pro
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The chess game of justice The world’s wealthiest nations, holders of the strongest passports, the most militarily powerful and most diplomatically influential countries either voted no or refused to vote yes. Global South said yes. Global North said no — or said nothing, which in diplomatic language means
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Africa-France Summit and the people’s counter-summit On 11th and 12 May 2026, the French president, Emanuel Macron, together with his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, were co-hosting the Africa-France Summit in Nairobi, dubbed Africa Forward Summit.
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The candlelit state Power cuts were a regular feature of childhood in Nairobi. When the electricity failed, my father would gather our family by candlelight and draw. On one such evening, he sketched a woman: a baby strapped to her back, a water pot balanced on her head, a basket of provisions carri
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] Economic Instrument or Political Tool? Socioeconomic Outcomes of Nigeria's 2022 Currency Redesign and Cashless Policy Paul Ani Onuh examines how Nigeria's 2022 naira redesign and cash withdrawal limit policy — ostensibly aimed at price stability and financial inclusion — became a weapon in elite political competition ahead of the 2023 election, with the costs of its chaotic implementation falling overwhelmingly on
ROAPE Watch [ROAPE] The Coloniality of Biometric Power: Global Digital Empire, Biometric State and the Control of Digital Subjects in Nigeria Victor Iwuoha and Martin Doevenspeck introduce the concept of 'biometric coloniality' to explain how digital ID systems in Nigeria reproduce colonial relations of domination through a 'digital consensus' among the EU, US, China, World Bank, and major foundations. The biometric state is complicit in
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