roapejournal.bsky.social
Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
👤 Joined on 01 April 2025
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@roapejournal.bsky.socialThis question of who holds symbolic power in conservation is one we sit with daily. In Etanga we start by asking who owns the herd and whose knowledge names the land, before anyone draws a plan. Community first, or it is not conservation.
Show Post"Amílcar Cabral’s insight was that colonial underdvlpmt was a system [that couldn't] be dismantled by replacing personnel & leaving structures intact. The cashew monoculture.. has outlasted everything except the dispossession it was designed to produce. That dispossession has always been gendered."
Show PostI used to loved cashew but I saw a news segments where the hands of the African* people who harvested and processed them were ruined while they were being economically exploited. Hard to enjoy after that.. *I don't recall the country, it was years ago.
Show PostNever heard of him. Clearly, he didn’t make it into Cameroon’s history books. #Cameroon I’ll check that out.
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