The Review of African Political Economy is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering African political economy. It was founded with the help of Lionel Cliffe and is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis since 1974. As of January 2024 the journal will leave Taylor & Francis and become open access. 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 editor-in-chief is Janet Bujra (University of Bradford).

Impact and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 0.988, ranking it 118th out of 181 journals in the category "Political Science". . It is indexed in a number of databases, including Scopus (Elsevier), Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate), IBZ Online (De Gruyter), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO), ABI/INFORM (ProQuest), Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO), CAB Abstracts (CABI), Humanities Abstracts (EBSCO), and Index Islamicus (Brill).