Regions Refocus is building cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy.

Post-Colonialisms Today

Policy research and advocacy on development policies and initiatives adopted, promoted, or formulated by governments and policy institutions across Africa in the immediate post-independence period.

Resistance Across Regions

Collating analysis of activists confronting the global authoritarian surge, this report compares right-wing regimes across contexts and the challenges of progressive and feminist movements, proposing strategies aimed at weaving together the threads of resistance.

Reimagining Regionalism

African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals present and discuss progressive and feminist policy proposals around trade, climate, change, fiscal governance, agriculture, and debt, emerging from three regional workshops in Addis Ababa, Kampala, and St. Augustine.

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Why Post-Colonialisms Today? Introduction to the Project

Africa, Arab States 2020-06-22

Lessons to Africa from Africa: Reclaiming Early Post-Independence Progressive Policies

This collection of case studies from Post-Colonialisms Today recovers insights from the revolutionary governments of early post-independence Africa to confront today’s development challenges through a progressive, feminist lens. See More

Africa, Arab States 2022-01-18

Unfinished Liberatory Agendas

Offering a feminist vision for reclaiming the developmental state, Akua Britwum and Amina Mama discuss the gender politics of post-independence leaders such as Nkrumah and Nyerere and outline the role of African women in anti-colonial struggles. See More

Africa 2020-12-10

Annual Round-Up and Winter News

See articles, videos, and events from the year, including our UNCTAD XV advocacy, lessons from the decolonization era on industrial policy, critical analysis of the COVAX initiative, and more. See More

Cross-Regional 2021-12-20

Biden and Economic Imperialism

Cross-Regional 12 May, 2021

COVAX Protects the Vaccine Apartheid Status Quo

The COVID-19 Global Access (COVAX) initiative is touted as a program for vaccine equality. But many of COVAX’s donors and architects are enmeshed in the global intellectual property regime fueling vaccine apartheid. By Aishu Balaji (Regions Refocus). See More

Cross-Regional 2021-05-09

Africa

Topics: Agriculture, Extractives, Regional Integration, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Arab States

Topics: Social Policy, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Asia

Topics: Caste, Finance, Sexuality, Regional Integration

Caribbean

Topics: Climate, Debt, Finance, Trade

Cross-Regional

Latin America

Topics: Education, Finance

Pacific

Topics: Climate, Trade

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