Leo Zeilig
Biographic Data
| ID | 216695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Zeilig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeilig |
| SIGNATURE | ZEILIG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1443-3037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter and WhatsApp service at the top of the home page of …
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter by entering their email address at the top of the ho…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter and WhatsApp service at the top of the home page of …
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter by entering their email address at the top of the ho…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this new section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what’s been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter by entering their email address at the top of the …
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Not quite post-political
International audience
The state: The executive committee of global capitalism
The articles in this issue are in one way or the other concerned with the state and its function within the economy. ROAPE has since its inception engaged with issues relating to the nature and rol
In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Samir Amin died on 12 August 2018, far into his ninth decade. His contributions to radical political economy in practice as well as in scholarship, to the ways we see the world and realise the worl
On filling voids
Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: Roape/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017
no abstract
Connections 2: Roape Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 16-17 April 2018
Creating alliances, making
Frantz Fanon: Anti-colonial and Pan-African Revolutionary
Frantz Fanon could be rightly considered as one of the major anti-colonial voices of Africathat sprang into vocal and physical action after the devastations of World War II. Fanon was a personage of formidable intellect mixed with a passion for political action on behalf of the decolonisation process in Africa. In this regard, Fanon stands on the same podium with the chief architects of anti-colonial action and discourse. That anti-colonial podiu…
Frantz Fanon’s radical psychiatry: The making of a revolutionary
Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and revolutionary. Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, he studied in France and then moved to occupied Algeria. As a young doctor in Algeria he adopted the country’s struggle against the French as his own. In 1956, he wrote, ‘madness is one of the means were man has of losing his freedom ... [and] psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man no longer to be a stranger in his own environment’ …
Mecca of Revolution
After the French fled Algeria in 1962 – almost a million settlers left the country over the course of several months – there was a brief radical moment. The Algerian revolution had defeated the Fre
Burkina Faso: From Thomas Sankara to popular resistance
Arguably the résistance populaire across Burkina Faso in September 2015 against the coup led by members of the old regime was as significant as the uprising that toppled Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. This Briefing attempts to unpick the significance and extent of the popular resistance
Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon
xxii, 287 pages : 21 cm
Não vamos esquecer (We will not forget)
The views expressed here are our own unless specifically accredited
Liberation movements in power: Party and state in southern Africa
From exile to the thick of the struggle: Ruth First and the problems of national liberation, international sanctions and revolutionary agency
Much of Ruth First's work examined the projects for radical transformation of Africa's political economy. She was aware of the failures of independence, writing in 1970 that decolonisation had been little more than ‘a bargaining process with cooperative African elites’. But she remained an enthusiastic advocate of some of these ‘projects’ on the continent. In 1977 she moved to Maputo to contribute to the socialist transformation of the country. T…
Suret-Canale de la résistance à l'anticolonialisme
During the 1960s and 1970s the research and scholarship of Jean Suret-Canale helped to educate a generation of activists and African intellectuals. But this author and militant, with an impressive
A Political and Economic Dictionary of Africa
This invaluable Dictionary provides an essential guide to the politics and economics of the African continent. Each individual entry provides clear and concise information, and entries are fully cross-referenced to enhance the book's usability. Organizations listed include contact details wherever possible. Key features* Provides authoritative up-to-date information on a region that is changing fast, and for which reliable data is often hard to l…
African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence
Chapter One--Introduction Chapter Two--Social movements and the working class in Africa Chapter Three--An epoch of uprisings: Social movements in post-colonial Africa, 1945-1998 Chapter Four --South African social movements Chapter Five--Social movements after the transition: Choiceless Democracies? Chapter Six--Frustrated transitions: social movements, protest and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Swaziland Chapter Sev…
The Student-Intelligentsia in sub-Saharan Africa: Structural Adjustment, Activism and Transformation
University students acquired a politically privileged status in much of sub-Saharan Africa; this was connected to the role the student-intelligentsia played in the struggles for independence. After independence, student activism became an important feature of the new states. However, higher education on the continent came under sustained attack in the 1980s and 1990s, with the policies of the IMF and World Bank reversing the generous funding nati…
Southern African social movements at the 2007 Nairobi World Social Forum
How relevant is the anti-globalization movement to the ideas and activities of social movements seeking to achieve economic justice and greater democratic accountability in southern Africa? Case study research in four southern African countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Swaziland) indicates that, while aspects of the anti-globalization approach resonate with civil society and social movement actors (for example, an emphasis on mass participat…
The Congo: Plunder and Resistance
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexati…
Spaces and Scales of African Student Activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean University Students at the Intersection of Campus, Nation and Globe
African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage. Student activism employs highly spatialised strategies yet has received minimal attention from geographers. Drawing on case studies from Senegal and Zimbabwe, we identify four phases of activism in which students have mobilis…
Class & protest in Africa: New waves
This article considers the relationship between working class struggle and popular protest in Africa over the last 40 years. We argue that the form and content of class relations which developed in the period of nationalist struggle and early ‘national development’ have been fundamentally restructured by the process of globalisation. From the late 1970s, a great wave of widespread popular protest and resistance was noted around the world, includi…
Student Politics and Activism in Zimbabwe: The Frustrated Transition
Student activism has made an important contribution to the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe. In the first years of independence students were among the most fearsome defenders of the regime. Three broad periods of student activism can be identified. The first pro-government period was followed by a violent break with the regime in 1988, the second period saw students declare that they were `the voice of the voiceless'. With the onset of structu…
The Student-Intelligentsia in sub-Saharan Africa: Structural Adjustment, Activism and Transformation
University students acquired a politically privileged status in much of sub-Saharan Africa; this was connected to the role the student-intelligentsia played in the struggles for independence. After independence, student activism became an important feature of the new states. However, higher education on the continent came under sustained attack in the 1980s and 1990s, with the policies of the IMF and World Bank reversing the generous funding nati…
Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: Roape/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017
no abstract
Burkina Faso: From Thomas Sankara to popular resistance
Arguably the résistance populaire across Burkina Faso in September 2015 against the coup led by members of the old regime was as significant as the uprising that toppled Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. This Briefing attempts to unpick the significance and extent of the popular resistance
In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Samir Amin died on 12 August 2018, far into his ninth decade. His contributions to radical political economy in practice as well as in scholarship, to the ways we see the world and realise the worl
Connections 2: Roape Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 16-17 April 2018
Creating alliances, making
Southern African social movements at the 2007 Nairobi World Social Forum
How relevant is the anti-globalization movement to the ideas and activities of social movements seeking to achieve economic justice and greater democratic accountability in southern Africa? Case study research in four southern African countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Swaziland) indicates that, while aspects of the anti-globalization approach resonate with civil society and social movement actors (for example, an emphasis on mass participat…
Frantz Fanon’s radical psychiatry: The making of a revolutionary
Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and revolutionary. Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, he studied in France and then moved to occupied Algeria. As a young doctor in Algeria he adopted the country’s struggle against the French as his own. In 1956, he wrote, ‘madness is one of the means were man has of losing his freedom ... [and] psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man no longer to be a stranger in his own environment’ …
From exile to the thick of the struggle: Ruth First and the problems of national liberation, international sanctions and revolutionary agency
Much of Ruth First's work examined the projects for radical transformation of Africa's political economy. She was aware of the failures of independence, writing in 1970 that decolonisation had been little more than ‘a bargaining process with cooperative African elites’. But she remained an enthusiastic advocate of some of these ‘projects’ on the continent. In 1977 she moved to Maputo to contribute to the socialist transformation of the country. T…
A Political and Economic Dictionary of Africa
This invaluable Dictionary provides an essential guide to the politics and economics of the African continent. Each individual entry provides clear and concise information, and entries are fully cross-referenced to enhance the book's usability. Organizations listed include contact details wherever possible. Key features* Provides authoritative up-to-date information on a region that is changing fast, and for which reliable data is often hard to l…
Student resistance and the democratic transition: Student politics in Senegal 1999-2005
University students participated in the democratic transition in Senegal that, throughout the 1990s, saw student activists across the continent advocate for political change. This paper examines the role students played in the election of the new government in Senegal in 2000 and the years that followed. Many student activists in Senegal argued that they were responsible for the changement politique, that saw the first defeat of the ruling Social…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this new section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what’s been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter by entering their email address at the top of the …
On filling voids
En quête de changement politique: La mobilisation étudiante au Sénégal, 2000-2004
Les étudiants sénégalais, depuis longtemps impliqués dans la mobilisation en faveur du changement, ont joué un grand rôle dans l'élection d'Abdoulaye Wade en 2000. Cet article examine la place des étudiants dans la démocratisation au Sénégal depuis 2000, les réformes de l'université et l'évolution du mouvement estudiantin. Pour ce, plusieurs moments clés des mobilisations étudiantes illustrant la nature de la relation entre le gouvernement et les…
Class & protest in Africa: New waves
This article considers the relationship between working class struggle and popular protest in Africa over the last 40 years. We argue that the form and content of class relations which developed in the period of nationalist struggle and early ‘national development’ have been fundamentally restructured by the process of globalisation. From the late 1970s, a great wave of widespread popular protest and resistance was noted around the world, includi…
Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: Politics, students and protest Chapter 2: Student activism, structural adjustment and the 'democratic transition' Chapter 3: Researching students Chapter 4: Reform, revolt and student activism in Zimbabwe Chapter 5: Political Change and student resistance in Senegal Chapter 6: The meaning of student protest in the democratic transition Conclusion: The return of the student-intelligentsia
The Congo: Plunder and Resistance
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexati…
Spaces and Scales of African Student Activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean University Students at the Intersection of Campus, Nation and Globe
African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage. Student activism employs highly spatialised strategies yet has received minimal attention from geographers. Drawing on case studies from Senegal and Zimbabwe, we identify four phases of activism in which students have mobilis…
From 'whiteman in rags' to revolutionary nationalist: Patrice Lumumba 1925-19601
Patrice Emery Lumumba (1925–1961) is perhaps the most famous leader of African independence. After his murder in 1961, he became an icon of anti‐imperialist struggle. His picture was brandished on demonstrations across the world, together with those other faces of the 1960s, Che Guevara and Mao Tse‐Tung. The subject of this article is the life of Patrice Lumumba before he came to power in 1960. Lumumba was born in Kasai province in the centre of …
Student Politics and Activism in Zimbabwe: The Frustrated Transition
Student activism has made an important contribution to the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe. In the first years of independence students were among the most fearsome defenders of the regime. Three broad periods of student activism can be identified. The first pro-government period was followed by a violent break with the regime in 1988, the second period saw students declare that they were `the voice of the voiceless'. With the onset of structu…
The Student-Intelligentsia in sub-Saharan Africa: Structural Adjustment, Activism and Transformation
University students acquired a politically privileged status in much of sub-Saharan Africa; this was connected to the role the student-intelligentsia played in the struggles for independence. After independence, student activism became an important feature of the new states. However, higher education on the continent came under sustained attack in the 1980s and 1990s, with the policies of the IMF and World Bank reversing the generous funding nati…
Southern African social movements at the 2007 Nairobi World Social Forum
How relevant is the anti-globalization movement to the ideas and activities of social movements seeking to achieve economic justice and greater democratic accountability in southern Africa? Case study research in four southern African countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Swaziland) indicates that, while aspects of the anti-globalization approach resonate with civil society and social movement actors (for example, an emphasis on mass participat…
Student resistance and the democratic transition: Student politics in Senegal 1999-2005
University students participated in the democratic transition in Senegal that, throughout the 1990s, saw student activists across the continent advocate for political change. This paper examines the role students played in the election of the new government in Senegal in 2000 and the years that followed. Many student activists in Senegal argued that they were responsible for the changement politique, that saw the first defeat of the ruling Social…
African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence
Chapter One--Introduction Chapter Two--Social movements and the working class in Africa Chapter Three--An epoch of uprisings: Social movements in post-colonial Africa, 1945-1998 Chapter Four --South African social movements Chapter Five--Social movements after the transition: Choiceless Democracies? Chapter Six--Frustrated transitions: social movements, protest and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Swaziland Chapter Sev…
Suret-Canale de la résistance à l'anticolonialisme
During the 1960s and 1970s the research and scholarship of Jean Suret-Canale helped to educate a generation of activists and African intellectuals. But this author and militant, with an impressive
A Political and Economic Dictionary of Africa
This invaluable Dictionary provides an essential guide to the politics and economics of the African continent. Each individual entry provides clear and concise information, and entries are fully cross-referenced to enhance the book's usability. Organizations listed include contact details wherever possible. Key features* Provides authoritative up-to-date information on a region that is changing fast, and for which reliable data is often hard to l…
Não vamos esquecer (We will not forget)
The views expressed here are our own unless specifically accredited
Liberation movements in power: Party and state in southern Africa
From exile to the thick of the struggle: Ruth First and the problems of national liberation, international sanctions and revolutionary agency
Much of Ruth First's work examined the projects for radical transformation of Africa's political economy. She was aware of the failures of independence, writing in 1970 that decolonisation had been little more than ‘a bargaining process with cooperative African elites’. But she remained an enthusiastic advocate of some of these ‘projects’ on the continent. In 1977 she moved to Maputo to contribute to the socialist transformation of the country. T…
Burkina Faso: From Thomas Sankara to popular resistance
Arguably the résistance populaire across Burkina Faso in September 2015 against the coup led by members of the old regime was as significant as the uprising that toppled Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. This Briefing attempts to unpick the significance and extent of the popular resistance
Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon
xxii, 287 pages : 21 cm
Frantz Fanon: Anti-colonial and Pan-African Revolutionary
Frantz Fanon could be rightly considered as one of the major anti-colonial voices of Africathat sprang into vocal and physical action after the devastations of World War II. Fanon was a personage of formidable intellect mixed with a passion for political action on behalf of the decolonisation process in Africa. In this regard, Fanon stands on the same podium with the chief architects of anti-colonial action and discourse. That anti-colonial podiu…
Frantz Fanon’s radical psychiatry: The making of a revolutionary
Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and revolutionary. Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, he studied in France and then moved to occupied Algeria. As a young doctor in Algeria he adopted the country’s struggle against the French as his own. In 1956, he wrote, ‘madness is one of the means were man has of losing his freedom ... [and] psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man no longer to be a stranger in his own environment’ …
Mecca of Revolution
After the French fled Algeria in 1962 – almost a million settlers left the country over the course of several months – there was a brief radical moment. The Algerian revolution had defeated the Fre
The state: The executive committee of global capitalism
The articles in this issue are in one way or the other concerned with the state and its function within the economy. ROAPE has since its inception engaged with issues relating to the nature and rol
In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Samir Amin died on 12 August 2018, far into his ninth decade. His contributions to radical political economy in practice as well as in scholarship, to the ways we see the world and realise the worl
On filling voids
Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: Roape/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017
no abstract
Political science (30 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works)