June 1, 2024
What is “Red Africa”? Through an extended treatment of Kevin Ochieng Okoth’s Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023), Vijay Prashad and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog illuminate the potential for a reinvigorated socialist politics in Africa. In turning away from Afropessimism and Decolonial Studies, the authors catalog the on-the-ground realities at play in pan-African and Marxist social movements today.
May 1, 2024
As dangerous trans-Atlantic crossings between Africa and Europe continue to rise, Hannah Cross examines the roots of the ongoing crisis. The discussion around migration, she notes, “overlooks the imperial role of Europe and the United States over borders, migration regimes, regional (de-)integration, and national development projects within Africa.” The solution, therefore, can only be found through genuine liberation and autonomy across the continent, rather than internationally imposed mechanisms benefitting the powerful in the Global North.
February 1, 2024
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development in Venice…. READ MORE
July 1, 2023
Ying Chen is an assistant professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York. The discovery of oil in Namibia in 2022 quickly led to the… READ MORE
June 1, 2023
George T. Mudimu is a scholar-activist based in Zimbabwe. He is interested in studying the dynamics of capitalism, social reproduction, land, and rural politics. He can be followed on Twitter… READ MORE
July 1, 2022
Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of international relations, editor of the Democratic Marxism book series, and principal investigator of the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project at Wits… READ MORE
May 1, 2022
Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author of numerous works, including Washington Bullets (Monthly Review Press). This article is adapted from his… READ MORE
October 1, 2021
Madalitso Zililo Phiri is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa. He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled… READ MORE
June 1, 2021
Jennifer Dohrn is an associate professor and assistant dean of the Office of Global Initiatives and its PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing…. READ MORE
May 1, 2020
Background Izaak Hecht is an independent researcher and activist in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In 1952, the West African nation of Ghana, recently having freed itself from British imperialism, set out on… READ MORE
