Lessons to Africa from Africa – reclaiming early post-independence progressive policies

Ray Bush — 2023-02-19T18:20:00Z

ROAPE's Ray Bush reviews a collection of essays which grapple with early post-independence development projects and policies in Africa. Bush argues that the lessons in this collection are relevant for understanding the constraints and opportunities for radical African transformation in the 21st century.
The new year ushered in the usual array of tropes on Africa. They include why the continent is failing, what it should be doing better and why it has so much resilience in dealing with (…)

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Migration and climate emergency in North Africa

Ray Bush — 2022-11-14T15:41:00Z

Looking in detail at the issues behind COP27, ROAPE's Ray Bush examines migration in the age of the climate emergency. The consequences of imperialism, colonialism and climate crises is the persistence of labour migration. Bush argues that the underlying cause of migration is structural inequality and its reproduction between the global north and south, which is now exacerbated by climate catastrophe.
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COP27 in Egypt's resort of Sharm el Sheikh is rightly condemned for being (…)

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Lessons to Africa from Africa – reclaiming early post-independence progressive policies

Migration and climate emergency in North Africa