Editorial
1 Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Maria Dyveke Styve and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
Tribute
8 Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin
Jayati Ghosh
Articles
15 Dependency in a financialised global economy
Fathimath Musthaq
32 Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution
Ndongo Samba Sylla
50 Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
66 The gender of dependency theory: women as workers, from neocolonialism in West Africa to the implosion of contemporary capitalism
Catherine Scott
82 The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation
Max Ajl
102 East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too?
Francisco Pérez
119 Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy
Francesco Macheda and Roberto Nadalini
Debate
142 Samir Amin and Eastern Europe
Annamária Artner
Volume 48 Number 168 June 2021
Issue Editor: Bettina Engels
Editorial
153 Extractivism, informal work and strategies for political-economic transformation
Bettina Engels
Articles
161 Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ben Radley and Sara Geenen
178 The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets
Christoph Vogel
196 Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala
Graeme Young
217 Battle for legitimacy: revisiting autochthony and (re)invented authority in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas
Edmore Mwandiringana and Jingzhong Ye
235 ‘More than a million’: the politics of accounting for the dead of the Rwandan genocide
Luc Reydams
257 The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing
Elizabeth le Roux
Briefings
276 Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda
Ivan Ashaba
289 Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa
Nataliya Mykhalchenko and Jörg Wiegratz
Review article
305 Financialisation of politics: the political economy of Egypt’s counterrevolution
Hesham Shafick
Book reviews
314 Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir
Reviewed by Justin Theodra
315 Nicola Ginsburgh, Class, work and whiteness: race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79
Reviewed by Alex Callinicos
On Roape.net
321 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Leo Zeilig
Volume 48 Number 169 September 2021
Issue Editor: Peter Lawrence
Editorial
325 Capitalism, resources and inequality in a climate emergency
Peter Lawrence
Editorial notice
331 Ruth First Prize
Articles
333 Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies
Franziska Müller and Simone Claar
352 Rebuilding hegemony: passive revolution, state transformation and South Africa’s steel sector
Ricardo Reboredo
369 When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa
Nomtha Gray
385 Staking a claim: law, inequality and the city in South Africa
Julian Brown
403 Cooperatives and the reorganisation of labour-intensive production in South Africa’s clothing industry
Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings
420 Janus-faced presidents: extroverted and introverted politics in oil-age Niger
Jannik Schritt
Briefings
442 Covid-19 containment policies in Nigeria: the role of conflictual federal–state relations in the fight against the pandemic
Ernest Toochi Aniche, Victor Chidubem Iwuoha and Kelechukwu Charles Obi
452 Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: a threat to the means of livelihood of artisanal fishers in South South region, Nigeria
Samuel A. Asua, Michael I. Ugwueze and Vincent C. Onah
Debate
462 Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states?
Gabriel Ozekhome Igechi
Review article
473 Bendix and Ndlovu-Gatsheni in dialogue: conceptualising the (de)colonial, knowledge and development
Felix Mantz
Book reviews
485 Elleni Centime Zeleke, Ethiopia in theory: revolution and knowledge production, 1964–2016
Reviewed by Michael Kebede
488 Maxim Bolt, Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence
Reviewed by Melusi Nkomo
490 L. Cochrane and N. Andrews (eds), The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike
Reviewed by Abdul-Salam Ibrahim
On Roape.net
493 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Leo Zeilig
Volume 48 Number 170 December 2021
Issue Editor: Reg Cline-Cole and Peter Lawrence
Editorial
497 Extractive capitalism and hard and soft power in the age of Black Lives Matter
Reginald Cline-Cole and Peter Lawrence
Articles
509 Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood
Camille Reyniers
529 Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania
Japhace Poncian
552 Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria
Victor Chidubem Iwuoha
581 Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015
Okorie Albert, Ifeanyichukwu Abada and Raymond Adibe
609 Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class
Joshua Lew McDermott
630 Contested compensation: the politics, economics and legal nuances of compensating white former commercial farmers in Zimbabwe
Philani Moyo
Debate
646 Land and the limits of liberal legalism: property, transitional justice and non-reformist reforms in post-apartheid South Africa
Matthew Evans
Review article
656 Seeking social justice in crisis: socio-economic rights and citizenship in post-2000 Zimbabwe
Kristina Pikovskaia
Book reviews
667 Omar Shahabudin McDoom, The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state
Reviewed by Filip Reyntjens
668 Serena Natile, The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls
Reviewed by Mike Chipere
670 Jacob Mwathi Mati, Political protest in contemporary Kenya: change and continuities
Reviewed by Njuki Githethwa
On Roape.net
674 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Leo Zeilig
677 Volume index
Author index, Volume 48, 2021
Abada, Ifeanyichukwu 581
Adibe, Raymond 581
Ajl, Max 82
Albert, Okorie 581
Aniche, Ernest Toochi 442
Artner, Annamária 142
Ashaba, Ivan 276
Asua, Samuel A. 452
Brown, Julian 385
Callinicos, Alex 315
Chipere, Mike 668
Claar, Simone 333
Cline-Cole, Reginald 497
Engels, Bettina 153
Evans, Matthew 646
Geenen, Sara 161
Ghosh, Jayati 8
Githethwa, Njuki 670
Gray, Nomtha 369
Ibrahim, Abdul-Salam 490
Igechi, Gabriel Ozekhome 462
Iwuoha, Victor Chidubem 442, 552
Kebede, Michael 485
Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu 1
Kvangraven, Ingrid Harvold 1
Lawrence, Peter 325, 497
Le Roux, Elizabeth 257
Müller, Franziska 333
Macheda, Francesco 119
Mantz, Felix 473
McDermott, Joshua Lew 609
Moyo, Philani 630
Musthaq, Fathimath 15
Mwandiringana, Edmore 217
Mykhalchenko, Nataliya 289
Nadalini, Roberto 119
Nattrass, Nicoli 403
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. 50
Nkomo, Melusi 488
Obi, Kelechukwu Charles 442
Onah, Vincent C. 452
Pérez, Francisco 102
Pikovskaia, Kristina 656
Poncian, Japhace 529
Radley, Ben 161
Reboredo, Ricardo 352
Reydams, Luc 235
Reyniers, Camille 509
Reyntjens, Filip 667
Schritt, Jannik 420
Scott, Catherine 66
Seekings, Jeremy 403
Shafick, Hesham 305
Styve, Maria Dyveke 1
Sylla, Ndongo Samba 32
Theodra, Justin 314
Ugwueze, Michael I. 452
Vogel, Christoph 178
Wiegratz, Jörg 289
Ye, Jingzhong 217
Young, Graeme 196
Zeilig, Leo 321, 493, 674