Voices for African Liberation: Conversations with the Review of African Political Economy

The human cost of Africa's longstanding exploitation by foreign imperialist powers within the global capitalist economy are well documented, and today Africa is suffering under the disproportionate impact of the climate emergency. In this context, the imperative of anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist critique for a socialist African future has never been more urgent. Voices for African Liberation presents 38 interviews with African and Africanist socialists conducted by the Review of African Political Economy between 2015 and 2023, bringing to life older voices of liberation and lost radical histories alongside newer initiatives, projects, and activists who are engaged in the contemporary struggles to reshape Africa - to make, win, and sustain a revolutionary transformation in our devastated world. Interviews in this collection include leading scholar-activists such as Samir Amin, Issa Shivji, and Hakim Adi, to significant national figures such as Guy Marius Sagna, Marjorie Mbilinyi, and Trevor Ngwane, to more local and less well-known activists and organic intellectuals such as Yusuf Serunkuma, Lena Anyuolo, and Bienvenu Matumo. Part I: Lessons From the Past 1. John Saul (2015), “Life in a Struggle that Continues!” 2. Hakim Adi (2017), Pan-Africanism and Communism 3. Victoria Brittain (2023), Lives Invisible to Power 4. Jesse Benjamin (2020), A Life of Praxis with Walter Rodney 5. Anne Braithwaite (2021), Walter Rodney and the Working People’s Alliance 6. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (2021), A People’s Historian 7. Reinhart Kössler (2016), Namibia, Genocide and Germany 8. António Tomás (2023), Amílcar Cabral’s Life, Legacy and Reluctant Nationalism 9. Pascal Bianchini (2018), Senegal’s Street Fighting Years 10. Explo Nani-Kofi (2016), Rawlings and Radical Change in Ghana 11. Mosa Phadi (2018), Understanding Steve Biko 12. Tamás Szentes (2018), To be Bravely Critical of Reality 13. Frej Stambouli (2021), When I was a Student of Fanon 14. Jean Copans (2019), Radical Scepticism Part II: Weapon of Theory 15. Samir Amin (2017), Revolutionary Change in Africa 16. Issa Shivji (2021), Let a Hundred Socialist Flowers Bloom 17. Lena Anyuolo (2021), Politics, Poetry and Struggle 18. Max Ajl (2021), A People’s Green New Deal 19. Ndongo Sylla (2022), Economics and Politics for Liberation 20. Tunde Zack-Williams (2021), Alternatives to Western Prescriptions 21. Lyn Ossome (2019), Talking Back 22. Hannah Cross (2021), Borders and Corporate Domination 23. Ray Bush (2022), Justice, Equality and Struggle 24. Yusuf Serunkuma (2021), Oil, Capitalists and the Wretched of Uganda 25. Nombuso Mathibela (2017), Protest, Racism and Gender in South Africa 26. David Seddon (2021), Riots, Protests and Global Adjustment Part III: Militants at Work 27. Abioudun Olamosu (2017), Looking Back to Move Forward 28. Nnimmo Bassey (2021), Extraction-Driven Devastation 29. Bienvenu Matumo (2022), The Struggle for Change in the Congo 30. Trevor Ngwane (2016), South Africa’s Fork in the Road 31. Antonater Tafadzwa Choto (2016), Resistance, Crisis and Workers in Zimbabwe 32. Yao Graham (2016), Pan-African Challenges 33. Guy Marius Sagna (2021), Decolonising a Neo-Colony 34. Esther Stanford-Xosei (2022), Afrika and Reparations Activism in the UK 35. Femi Aborisade (2019), The Roots of the Crisis in Nigeria 36. Irene Asuwa and Cidi Otieno (2022), Imperialism and GMOs in Kenya 37. Habib Ayeb (2018), Food Sovereignty and the Environment 38. Marjorie Mbilinyi (2017), Gender and Politics in Africa