By Daki Nkanyane The world is sorting itself into camps again. Africa is being asked – sometimes diplomatically, sometimes with barely disguised coercion – to pick...
The old assumption - that industrialization is engineered within national borders - has expired. Africa's economic future will be shaped not by the walls that divide...
By Des H Rikhotso President Duma Boko’s refusal to visit the White House signals a bolder African posture on sovereignty – and may be backed by...
By Daki Nkanyane Africa’s growing relevance is structural, not sentimental. The world has run out of ways to plan the future without it. For a long...
By Charles F.V. Chitekwe Across Africa, a quiet but consequential revolt against conditional aid is gathering momentum – and the United States should pay close attention....
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 September Ethiopia is not merely pursuing the 2028 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) – it is wagering its political resurgence on it. This ambitious...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
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 When Israel formally recognized Somaliland earlier this week, the international community responded with predictable outrage. The African Union (AU) condemned the move....
By Apollo Buregyeya When the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began generating electricity in 2023, it marked more than an engineering triumph – it signaled a...
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 Mary Alorh In today’s fiercely competitive global landscape, opportunity often emerges where others have failed – and nowhere is this more evident than in the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu More than a year after this piece was first written, the presence of the Gulf states in Africa has become increasingly pronounced....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Since rejoining the African Union in 2017, Morocco has steadily expanded its influence across the continent, with a particular focus on West...
By Godfred Zina The growing diplomatic ties between Eritrea and Saudi Arabia are poised to reshape the power dynamics in the Red Sea and the Horn...
By Mary Alorh In Ghanaian parlance, there is a saying: “When two elephants fight, it is the ground that suffers.” This proverb rings true in light...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In December 1990, the late Idriss Déby, and his insurgent Patriotic Salvation Movement, overran the country’s capital, N’Djamena, having invaded from Libya...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Hellenistic civilization that emerged from southeast Europe greatly influenced North Africa. The Roman empire and other political establishments in East Asia...
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 Bhaso Ndzendze Some three decades since the end of the Cold War, the world order is undergoing a structural transformation. At the heart of it...
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...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa, as with the rest of the developing world, continues to be impacted by events on the international stage – from the Ukraine-Russia...
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 For two decades, the United States has held a trio of conferences that used to be considered summits: the African Growth and Opportunity...
