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Ruth First Prize

Created 01 Jan 2015| Updated 06 Sep 2023 | 9 articles

ROAPE awards an annual prize of £1,000 for the most outstanding article written by an African author and published in the previous year’s volume of four issues. The author must be published in ROAPE for the first time. The selection is made by a panel drawn from the Editorial Working Group. All eligible articles are considered, but in selection priority is given to early-career authors who are African nationals resident in Africa. 

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Crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum’s scramble for mining rights, 1995–2019
Musa Nxele

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 49, Number: 173 (03 Jul 2022)

Published online: 05 Sep 2022
AbstractforCrony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum’s scramble for mining rights, 1995–2019 | Full Text | References | PDF (1.9 MB) | EPUB
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Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania
Japhace Poncian

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 48, Number: 170 (02 Oct 2021)

Published online: 26 Aug 2021
AbstractforResource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania | Full Text | References | PDF (1.6 MB) | EPUB
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The strategies and tactics of fighting against precarisation of work: a comparative study of precarious workers’ struggles in two South African municipalities
Lawrence Ntuli

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 47, Number: 163 (02 Jan 2020)

Published online: 16 Jul 2020
AbstractforThe strategies and tactics of fighting against precarisation of work: a comparative study of precarious workers’ struggles in two South African municipalities | Full Text | References | PDF (954.5 KB) | EPUB
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Resistance and repression in Zimbabwe: a case study of Zimplats mine workers
Paddington Mutekwe

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 46, Number: 160 (03 Apr 2019)

Published online: 12 Apr 2019
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The new struggles of precarious workers in South Africa: nascent organisational responses of community health workers
Mondli Hlatshwayo

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 45, Number: 157 (03 Jul 2018)

Published online: 02 Oct 2018
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The politics of recognition, and the manufacturing of citizenship and identity in Senegal’s decentralised charcoal market
Papa Faye

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 44, Number: 151 (02 Jan 2017)

Published online: 24 Mar 2017
AbstractforThe politics of recognition, and the manufacturing of citizenship and identity in Senegal’s decentralised charcoal market | Full Text | References | PDF (1.3 MB)
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‘I am a paramount chief, this land belongs to my ancestors’: the reconfiguration of rural authority after Zimbabwe's land reforms
Grasian Mkodzongi

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 43, Number: sup1 (22 Aug 2016) Special Issue: Land, liberation and democracy: A tribute to Lionel Cliffe

Published online: 05 Nov 2015
Abstractfor‘I am a paramount chief, this land belongs to my ancestors’: the reconfiguration of rural authority after Zimbabwe's land reforms | Full Text | References | PDF (1 MB)
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Rethinking ‘expert sense’ in international development: the case of Sierra Leone’s housing policy
Steven Nabieu Rogers

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 43, Number: 150 (01 Oct 2016)

Published online: 27 Jun 2016
AbstractforRethinking ‘expert sense’ in international development: the case of Sierra Leone’s housing policy | Full Text | References | PDF (1.1 MB)
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The invisible hands: women in Marikana
Asanda Benya

Originally published in Review of African Political Economy, Volume: 42, Number: 146 (02 Oct 2015) White gold: new class and community struggles on the South African platinum belt

Published online: 13 Jan 2016
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