Leo is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. He has written in a number of academic domains, including sociology, political science, political economy, geography and history. Here are a few of the academic articles, chapters and reports he has written in recent years.

Books

• Thomas Sankara, with Jean-Claude Kongo Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2017
• Voice of Liberation: Frantz Fanon Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2015 Available here.
• Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of Third World Liberation London: I. B Tauris, 2015 Available here.
• Voices of Liberation: Patrice Lumumba Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2013 Available here.
• African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence, with Peter Dwyer Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012 Download here.
• Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa, editor, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009 (2 editions, 2 languages) Read here.
• Africa’s Lost Leader: Lumumba London: Haus Publishing, 2008 (2 editions) Available here.
• Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa London: I.B. Tauris, 2007 (2 editions)
• Congo: Plunder and Resistance, with David Seddon and David Renton London: Zed Books, 2006

Edited collections and reports

• Review of African Political Economy, Special Issue on Ruth First, with Janet Bujra and Gary Littlejohn 41: 139, 2014 Available here.
• Zimbabwe 2008: a new beginning? Understanding Global Issues, 2009 Available here.
• Journal of Higher Education in Africa, Special Issue on Student Activism in Africa, with Marcelle Dawson, 6:1&2, 2008

Articles and chapters

• ‘Marxism, Class and Revolution in Africa: Understanding the legacy and the defeat of the 1917 Russian Revolution,’ International Socialism 157, 2018
• ‘Burkina Faso: from Thomas Sankara to popular resistance,’ Review of African Political Economy 44: 151, 2017
• ‘Frantz Fanon’s Radical Psychiatry: the making of a revolutionary,’ Critical and Radical Social Work 5: 1, 2016 Available here 
• ‘From London to Maputo: Ruth First and the problems of liberation,’ Review of African Political Economy 41: 139, 2014 Available here.
• ‘Não vamos esquecer (We will not forget)’, with Gary Littlejohn and Gavin Williams, Review of African Political Economy 41: 139, 2014 Available here.
• ‘Pitfalls and Radical Mutations: Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary life,’ International socialism 134, 2012 Read here.
• ‘An epoch of uprisings: Social movements in Africa since 1945,’ with Miles Larmer, Socialist History Journal 40 (2012) Available here.
• ‘Frantz Fanon, une vie révolutionnaire,’ Contretemps 10, 2011 Available here.
• ‘Tony Cliff: Deflected Permanent Revolution in Africa,’ International Socialism 126, 2010 Read here.
• ‘The student-intelligentsia in sub-Saharan Africa: Structural adjustment, activism and transformation,’ Review of African Political Economy 36:119, 2009 Available here.
• 'Southern African social movements at the 2007 Nairobi World Social Forum,' with Miles Larmer and Peter Dwyer, Global Networks 9:1, 2009 Available here.
• ‘Turning to Africa: Politics and student resistance in Africa since 1968,’ in Gurminder K Bhambra and Ipek Demir, eds., 1968 in Retrospect: History, Theory, Alterity London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009 
• ‘Zimbabwe: imperialism, hypocrisy and fake nationalism,’ International Socialism 119, 2008 Read here.
• “Increasing my value proposition to the struggle”: Arthur Mutambara and student politics in Zimbabwe,’ African Sociological Review 12:1, 2007 Download here.
• ‘Slums, resistance and the African working class,’ International socialism 117, 2007 Read here.
• ‘Class and protest in Africa: New waves,’ with David Seddon, Review of African Political Economy 102, 2005. 
• ‘En quête de changement politique: La mobilisation étudiante au Sénégal, 2000–2004,’ Politique Africaine 96, 2005 Read here.
• ‘Crisis in Zimbabwe,’ International Socialism 94, 2002 Read here.