The Review of African Political Economy is a refereed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 covering Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

n political economy

Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...

. It is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis

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 since 1974. It focuses in particular on 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.

The chair is currently Janet Bujra of the International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford

University of Bradford

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, and the deputy chair is Ray Bush

Ray Bush

Raymond Carey Bush is a professor of African Studies at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He is also a member of the Leeds University Centre for African Studies advisory board and deputy chair of the Review of African Political Economy . Bush is married...

 of the School of Politics and International Studies

School of Politics and International Studies

The School of Politics and International Studies is part of the faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Leeds...

, University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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