By Ajay Wasserman South Africa has executed a calculated maneuver that could redefine Africa’s position in global trade architecture – a strategic pivot that reshapes continental...
By Farhia Noor The continent’s partnerships with emerging powers demand scrutiny, not celebration. I am African. I read. I observe. I listen. I reflect. My elders...
By Danilo Desiderio The global trading system is fracturing, and Africa faces a pivotal choice: become a strategic player or remain a passive bystander in a...
By Daki Nkanyane There are moments in history when a continent doesn’t “rise” – it remembers. Africa stands at precisely such a threshold today. For years,...
By Ajay Wasserman The world came to Africa in 2025 – but not everyone showed up. That, however, turned out to be beside the point. While...
By Victory Azimih The world is reorganizing into powerful, consolidated blocs. Africa cannot afford to remain the outlier, negotiating as 54 fragmented voices. The cost of...
By Danilo Desiderio As the world’s economic center of gravity tilts decisively from West to East, Africa finds itself at a defining historical juncture. The rise...
By Emmanuel Musaazi From the fifteenth century onwards, Africa’s path has been shaped by external powers who saw the continent less as a partner and more...
By Godfred Zina As Russia expands its footprint in East Africa, Ethiopia and the Russian Federation are forging a closer strategic relationship that spans defense, economics,...
By Mary Alorh During my college years as a sociology student, I learned that every policy or action has two sides: the manifest effect, which is...
By Mary Alorh African nations and other emerging economies are increasingly aligning with the BRICS bloc, recognizing its potential as a key driver of global economic...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the Bretton Woods institutions – the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – were established in the aftermath of...
AP | Nigeria has been admitted as a “partner country” of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, according to Brazil, the group’s chair. BRICS was formed...
By JP Følsgaard Bak “Africa is not a place, it is an emotion,” said Kwame Nkrumah, one of Africa’s most revered leaders and the first President...
By Gregory Simpkins By the time this is posted on our website, there will be only days until the 2024 national elections in the United States....
By Mary Alorh Algeria and Morocco have long held significant roles in North African geopolitics. Both countries are part of the Maghreb and former French colonies,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, the creation of the G20 or Group of 20 emerged as a response to...
By Gregory Simpkins For more than a year now, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) coalition has been pressing hard for replacement of the...
By Gregory Simpkins The global environment is changing at an accelerating pace. The post-World War II arrangements have broken down to be replaced by an emerging...
It seems like there’s a growing discourse around Nigeria’s potential membership in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), a coalition of emerging economies aimed...
By Jevans Nyabiage SCMP | China’s total trade with Africa grew a modest 1.5 percent in 2023 from 2022 to US$282.1 billion, but Africa’s trade deficit...
By Gregory Simpkins In the late 1800s, European nations consolidated their colonization of Africa at an 1885 conference in Berlin to ensure that each colonial power...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been significant discussion over the past year about replacing the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The dollar has held...
By Lauren Johnston In a year when headlines have been dominated by conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and geo-economic tensions between China and the...
Bloomberg | Nigeria will seek to become a member of the BRICS group of nations within the next 2 years as part of a new foreign...
By Gregory Simpkins For the past several years, African governments and their non-African supporters have lamented the continuing exclusion of African governments from seats on international...
By Christopher Isike How might BRICS affect US-African ties? Altering diplomatic relations between African countries and the US on account of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China...
By Gregory Simpkins One of the biggest stories in recent weeks has been the ongoing evolution of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this...
By Chinedu Okafor China’s senior African diplomat stated earlier this week, during a briefing on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa that African...
By Zita Zage In recent years, the BRICS group of nations, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has emerged as a formidable presence...
Reuters | The development bank founded by the so-called BRICS countries closed the auction for its first South African rand bonds on Tuesday, as it comes...
By Dimitri Zabelin In the coming decades, Africa will become a pivotal player in international affairs. A confluence of the continent’s abundance of strategic resources, favorable...
By Padraig Carmody A few years ago, the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – had lost salience because three of its...
Xinhua | South Africa has invited heads of state of all African countries to the BRICS summit, which is set to be held in August in...
Reuters | Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has asked to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The term...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about the current drive to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. A reserve currency is defined as...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been increasing talk about a New World Order created by the alliance primarily of China and Russia, along with other nations...
By Thebe Mabanga The 7th Summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) member states – the five major emerging national economies –...
The emerging market BRICS nations will have their own development bank by the end of the year, South Africa has said. “The New Development Bank is...
A new development bank launched by emerging economies will help all nations in distress to return to health, South African President Jacob Zuma said earlier this...
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging giants are expected to sign a deal next week to open their own development...
When it comes to acronyms of the global economy, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have repeatedly represented Africa. They show up in acronyms coined by economists and...
Nigeria’s technology startup scene is heating up with more pitching competitions and incubators being launched this year, but experts say key challenges hinder innovation in the...
The seaports and rail system of South Africa play an important role in the economies of not only that country, but those of neighboring landlocked members...
By Carlos Lopes This year Africa celebrates fifty years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); never before has the continent been so...
While South Africa remains the most attractive corporate investment destination in Africa, Nigeria is nipping at its heels and may overtake it as soon as next...
Business leaders from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging economies met Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss trade with...
(IANS) – Business leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa Monday to identify specific measures to eliminate...
The just concluded BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit concluded in Durban, South Africa calls for stronger partnerships, integration and industrialization to tackle various...
Africa is rising not only on the growth charts of economists. The continent that was a byword for poverty, chaos and bloodshed only a few decades...
The establishment of the BRICS bank will provide the emerging economies in Africa and the Caribbean with an alternative to the IMF and World Bank (Bloomberg)...
The new president of China, Xi Jinping, lands in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Sunday at the beginning of a three-country tour of Africa. He faces...
High level representatives of the African Union and African regional economic blocs have been invited to attend the the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
South Africa today indicted that it was ready to host a planned development bank for the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) grouping of...
The launch of the BRICS development bank in South Africa would provide Africa, the Caribbean and other emerging countries an alternative to the Western dominated Bretton...
Zimbabwe has set sights on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging world economic powerhouses as a source of trade and...
South Africa’s membership of the bloc of leading emerging economies and its unique position in Africa heralded the country’s role as a gateway into the African...
