Connections 2: Roape Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 16–17 April 2018

Abstract

This is the second of our Debate Special Issue reports on the three linked workshops which the Review of African Political Economy held in Africa in 2017-18. We have called the series 'Connections' to emphasise its distinctiveness from the more usual academic conferences. We also wanted to widen our networks across Africa and create new ones, in particular to bring together activists and scholars to reconsider the potential for radical socioeconomic transformation and engagement in the continent. This report tries to avoid academicism and to speak in an accessible way to the 'moment of Dar'. It includes contributions from the presenters at the workshop as well as accounts from two active participants -Njuki Githethwa, a scholar activist and writer from Kenya, and Tamás Gerőcs, a political economist working as a research fellow at the Institute of World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.ROAPE was founded in 1973 in the context of liberation struggles and committed itself to anti-imperialism and socialist development in Africa, as well as to broadly materialist analysis; it aims to continue in that spirit. We dedicate this project to Samir Amin, who had hoped to come to the workshop but whose illness prevented this and whose death sadly occurred as we were preparing for publication.The second of our workshops was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on 16-17 April 2018. 1 The first was held in Accra, Ghana in November 2017 to coincide with the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the 60th anniversary of Ghana's independence. The workshop in Dar coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Arusha Declaration, which heralded a bold socialist experiment. Our final workshop in this series was in

Connections 3: ROAPE workshop in Johannesburg, 26–27 November 2018

“…(Interview, Roape.net 2019) Notes 1. For detailed reports of the workshops in Accra and Dar es Salaam see the Debate Special Issues in ROAPE issues 156 (Bush, Graham, and Zeilig 2018) and 158 (Bujra et al 2018) respectively. 2.…”