Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) is a network of students, academics, and civil society organisations committed to challenging how economics is taught and learnt in universities, and how it is practiced in the real-world of research and policy-making.

REFA is about making economics accessible to everyone; giving a platform to different points of view and making sure that the economics curriculum is relevant to the real world. 

The main themes explored by REFA are: 

• Promoting pluralism in economics (such as exploring different economic schools of thought, and how they apply to real world topics). 

• Bringing about change in the formal economics curriculum (including the formal academic economics curriculum, 

• Promoting an "extra-curricular" economics curriculum through debates, workshops, reading groups and public education

• Exploring alternative economics and alternative economies. 

REFA is mainly organised as university chapters at a number of South African universities. Chapters organise public debates, reading groups, and are moving towards other activities like curriculum reform.