Author: Nick Westcott
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Africa in a multipolar world
How does the continent press its advantages in the age of multipolarity, summit diplomacy and the new scramble for minerals for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? The ... -
Debt and the Gen Z protests: The moral economy of the African crowd
A generation after the 1980s debt crisis triggered the rebirth of democracy on the continent, will Kenya’s youthful idealists spark a pan-African revolt? The protests in ... -
Africa in the global village: Notes on some epochal trends
Hidden in plain sight, Africans are in the thick of the kind of history-making that will define the 21st century. In 2024, Africa presents a paradox. ... -
BRICS and Africa: New beginning or false dawn?
With 40 countries on the waiting list, Egypt and Ethiopia’s entry into BRICS marks another notch for Beijing’s geopolitical expansion. The decision to expand the BRICS, ... -
Niger: Will the Sahel survive another coup?
An Arab, deposed President Bazoum’s attempts to shuffle his Fulani-dominated Republican Guard, may have triggered the coup. With French and US troops stationed there, and Russia ... -
The two defining challenges facing South Africa
Stagnation at home and fence-sitting abroad are costing the country dearly, and the costs are only rising. South Africa is facing two fundamental challenges, one internal, ... -
What Will Happen in Sudan?
The current crisis exposes the motives of the men with guns. It requires, paradoxically, the intervention of a distracted international community that has done little to ... -
Oligarchs, Oil and Obi-dients: The battle for the soul of Nigeria
The end of the oil-fuelled patronage system may pose the greatest threat to the nation since the Civil War. Therein may lie its salvation. Nigeria’s elections ... -
How useful is aid to Africa?
Mills’ latest book calls for donors to focus on democracies, but electoral systems can be as susceptible to corruption as autocracies. Since 1960, Africa has received ... -
Making sense of the coup in Burkina Faso
The latest coup in the Sahel again points to domestic and international distrust and policy failures. Another day, another coup in the Sahel. Within 12 months, ...
