Cover Story: A Baobab Has Fallen
Samir Amin Intro
SAMIR AMIN was born in Cairo as son of an Egyptian father and a French mother (both medical doctors). He...
Long Road To Socialism
Long Road To Socialism (Lecture One) The end of the crisis of capitalism or capitalism in crisis? CAPITALISM, A PARENTHESIS IN HISTORY The...
A Baobab Has Fallen
By Issa Shivji Samir Amin was an exceptionally humble person. In spite of his huge influence on younger generations, he never treated them ...
Samir Amin: Scholar and Activist for Global Socialist Transformation
Peter Lawrence Samir Amin devoted his life’s work to the analysis of global capitalism. A scholar-activist and committed Marxist socialist,...
Samir Amin and Decolonising Economics
By Salimah Valiani Beginning over 50 years ago, Samir Amin did pioneering work on a question still relevant today: understanding the world...
The World Forum for Alternatives
The World Forum for Alternatives was reorganised and founded at a conference in Cairo in April 1997. François Houtart, director of the Trico...
Samir Amin and The Way Forward
I - Introduction I have known Samir since the early 1970s, and attended his burial in Paris following his death on 12 August 2018. I wrote ...
You Live On Samir Amin …… In Our Imagination
By Natasha Issa Shivji Dr. Natasha Issa Shivji is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Director in the Institute fo...
Toward the Formation of a Transnational Alliance of Working and Oppressed Peoples
By Samir Amin Firoze Manji Samir Amin (1931–2018) was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books. ...
Samir Amin: The Organic Intellectual
‘In our era, when we consider the destructive (ecological and military) might at the disposal of the powers-that-be, the risk, denounced by ...
Regular Column
Letters to the Editors
Cinema Nostalgia – A Sequel Reading the varied and fascinating contributions on the Indian Cinema theme brought back some further memories. Ameer Janmohamed, in his ‘Romance of the Regal’ (extracted from his book) writes that the Regal Cinema had a stage behind the screen that was often used for live shows. I remember going to a musical concert by Mohamed Rafi and his ensemble visiting from India, in around 1956/57. This was the first time I had been to anything like that. Seeing them sing and play the various instruments, especially the electric guitar, made a huge impression. It was an exciting performance to a cheering...
Global Gloom
London Calling by Ramnik Shah As I write this we are in the grip of a truly international health crisis. Originating in China, in December 2019, hence no doubt its scientific moniker Covid-19, coronavirus has rapidly spread across most parts of the world in the first three months of this year and become a global pandemic. So 2020 has not had an auspicious beginning; how it will pan out remains to be seen. I have changed the opening of this piece and the rest of the planned content several times already, because we are dealing with a...
Editorial Message from the Editors
So Covid-19 is here amongst us – a lifeless entity invisible to the human eye has brought our world to a stop! Revolutionary almost! The cover story of this issue is celebrating one of Africa’s most renowned revolutionary thinkers and activists: Prof Samir Amin who passed away on 12 August 2018. Amin devoted his life to the study of global capitalism and wrote extensively urging us to refuse the dictatorship of money, to rebuild and extend democracy, to de-link from Euro-centric policies and adopt an overall strategy of ‘self-reliance’, to globalize social struggles … and...
Special Feature
When Radical Scholars And Activists Converge: Inward Conversations
By Njuki Githethwa, a Kenyan writer and Activist The third of the series of the workshops held by the Review of African Political Economy, better known by the acronym of ROAPE took place on 26 and 27 November, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The workshop was held under the title: Resistance and Transformation in Africa: A Workshop for movements and activist...
Memories and Tributes to Mo (Sir Mohinder Dhillon)
Sir Mohinder Dhillon, ‘Mo’ to his friends, was a remarkable Kenyan. From an unschooled village lad in the Punjab, India, to becoming a world-famous frontline news cameraman; his life story is the stuff of legends. Official photographer to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; a near fatal helicopter crash on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro; coverage of the horrific Ethiopian Famine...
Religion And Politics In India: A Comment
Karim Hirji comments on `Babri Masjid: A Case of Criminal Trespass’ (A...
The Use And Effects Of Pesticides In Kenya
By Felistus Mwalia, Programme Officer for the Route to Food Initiative...
She Never Imitates, Never Does The Same Thing Twice....
By Ali Zaidi My wife is black, beautiful and strong. I was born and g...
No to Gender-Based Violence at the Workplaces & Communities: Ratify Convention 190 NOW!
Lai Brown, The National Organising Secretary of the Automobile, Boatya...
Apolitical Intellectuals
One day the apolitical intellectuals of my country will be interrogate...
The Northeast's Fears of Being Swamped are Genuine
Nandita Haksar: ‘We do not seem to realize that the cultural diversity...
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Footsteps
Thandika Mkandawire 1940 - 2020
It is with great sadness and a deep sense of loss that the Council for the Development o...
Dr FRS de Souza 1929 - 2020
With the death of Dr FRS de Souza in London on 2 March 2020, the curtain has been finall...
Marcelino dos Santos 1929 – 2020
Remembering Marcelino dos Santos, founder of Frelimo and the former Vice President of the ...
Raficq Sheik Abdulla 1940 - 2019
Raficq Sheikh Abdulla passed away peacefully at home in London, England on 19 December 2...