By Fidel Amakye Owusu Great-power competition has returned to Africa. But this is no simple reprise of the Cold War – it is more chaotic, more...
By Gregory Simpkins In recent weeks, the island of Greenland has become a hot international topic. It has been at the top of the agenda for...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu On August 27, 1975, the world learned of the death of Emperor Haile Selassie – a moment that marked not just the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, many expected international organizations formed during that era...
By Mary Alorh The shifting dynamics of global power over recent decades have profoundly impacted policies and diplomatic relations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. African nations are...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Portugal finally withdrew from Angola in 1975, the nation quickly descended into a civil war that would last nearly 30 years....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the United States declared war on global terrorism in 2001, it was equipped with the world’s most powerful military in terms...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu During the Cold War, the West held significant influence in West Africa, particularly through France, which had considerable control over many countries...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu During my undergraduate studies, I enrolled in a course titled “US Foreign Policy in Africa.” Essentially, the motivations driving US foreign policy...
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 John J Stremlau China’s foreign ministry published a 4,000-word analysis entitled US Hegemony and its Perils on 20 February. It’s an indictment of alleged US...
By Hippolyte Fofack More than 20,000 Africans were killed in violent conflicts in 2020, an almost tenfold increase from a decade ago. Concurrently, and perhaps not...
Ignorance about Africa-China is a convenient way to keep the focus on China, while not acknowledging the toxicity of the actual Africa-West relationship, or to reckon...
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...
