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.

Public health refers to efforts to create conditions that promote the overall well-being of populations. It therefore entails measures such as the provision of clean water, efficient waste disposal ...

It has been a year since a generation of Kenyans, now dubbed “Gen Z”, shook the political foundations of this country to their core. The government met what had initially begun as a rallying cry to ...

Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah argue that in the DR Congo, industrial mining companies and political elites operate under the banner of decarbonization while perpetuating historic ...

In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...

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 clash between progress and cultural heritage often results in painful outcomes, particularly the loss of family land and historical homes. The question remains: At what cost are we changing our ...