01101cas a2200145   4500008004100000022001300041035002000054050004800074245004000122260001000162310001400172362004600186520070300232650002000935161216n                            eng u  a03056244  a(Sirsi) a199565  ahttp://www.jstor.org/subject/africanstudies  aReview of African Political Economy  aJSTOR  aQuarterly  aNo. 1 , 1974   -  Vol. 35 , No. 118, 2008  aThe Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.  aAfrican Studies