By Daki Nkanyane The world is sorting itself into camps again. Africa is being asked – sometimes diplomatically, sometimes with barely disguised coercion – to pick...
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 Fidel Amakye Owusu The continent can no longer afford to wait for the world’s attention to turn its way. As conflict in the Middle East...
By Farhia Noor The Sahel is teaching the world a lesson it had forgotten: Africa is neither weak nor helpless. And it is certainly not for...
By Danilo Desiderio The proposition that Africa’s single market will collapse without a supranational court is simultaneously persuasive and fundamentally flawed. Persuasive, because it accurately diagnoses...
By Ronald Sanders When powerful states make policy decisions, small states reflexively personalize them. When small states fragment, powerful states need not justify their actions at...
By Godfred Zina When Washington intervened in Venezuela, the response from African capitals was swift and notably unified. Yet this wasn’t about taking sides in Latin...
By Godfred Zina As global power shifts accelerate, African nations are abandoning diplomatic deference in favor of strategic reciprocity – and the consequences could reshape international...
By Ronald Sanders Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the right to govern itself, protect its territory,...
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 Farhia Noor Africa is speaking. And she is not addressing the farmer under the scorching sun, the child walking barefoot to school, or the market...
By Mary Alorh The recent developments in Chad and Senegal regarding French military bases have sparked important discussions about the relationship between France and its former...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Recently, I had the chance to discuss the dynamics of the second round of legislative elections in France. The next day, the...
The principle of state sovereignty has been an integral part of international relations since the end of the Second World War and this principle guarantees smaller...