The protests in Nepal this week were unprecedented. In just 48 hours, a disparate movement of largely young people throughout major towns and cities brought down the entire political establishment ...

Fraser Sugden is an associate professor in geography at the University of Birmingham. He is an agrarian political economist who works in the field of migration, land reform, action research, and ...

Last year ROAPE publish new edited collection, Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa: The Neoliberal Period. The volume brings together a collection of research articles, briefings and blog posts ...

Laureen Snider is a Professor of Sociology who specializes in the study of Corporate Crime, Surveillance and Regulation, Feminism and Sociologies of Punishment.

From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and ...

Dawson McCall is a professor of history at Loyola University, New Orleans, where he teaches courses on the histories of Africa, African sports, and African diasporas.

In 2016, AMU Power Company was granted plans to build East Africa’s first ever coal power plant as part of the mega-infrastructure project known as The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport ...

The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...

How did a mega-project in Lamu turn into a David vs Goliath case in court? It all started in 2012, when 28 farmers entered into an agreement with a Belgian energy company to erect wind turbines on ...

Dr Hailay Abrha Gesesew is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing (PHEHF) in Torrens University Australia, Adelaide, Australia, ...

One of the harsh realities that confront the population of my beloved country is food insecurity. Rwanda was listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as one of the ...

Five months since the leaderless, anti-tax, pro-good-governance “Gen Z” protests roiled Kenya in June and July 2024, their vanguardism inspiring young people in other African countries to stage their ...