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Author: Nick Westcott

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Nick Westcott

Nick Westcott is Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.

  • Africa Summit DiplomacyDiplomacy & geopoliticsOpedTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    October 11, 2024
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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 ...
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  • Debating IdeasKenyaOPINIONTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    July 31, 2024
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    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 ...
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  • Global AfricaOPINION
    By Nick Westcott
    February 16, 2024
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    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.  ...
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  • Diplomacy & geopoliticsTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    August 31, 2023
    698
    2

    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, ...
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  • Coup in NigerNigerTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    July 28, 2023
    1236
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    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 ...
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  • Challenges for South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa meets President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019. Credit: GovernmentZA.
    PoliticsSouth AfricaTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    May 30, 2023
    1630
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    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, ...
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  • The men in suits are back in their combat fatigues: Composite picture of head of the Rapid Support Forces, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Hemedti', and Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who has led Sudan since 2019. Courtesy Wikicommons, and credit for Hemedti photo (Russian Federation), and Burhan (Govt of Azerbaijan).
    Conflict & CrisisSudanTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    April 19, 2023
    1768
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    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 ...
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  • Peter Obi presidential campaign rally, Borno State, 28 Jan, 2023 (Photo courtesy: Peter Obi media team)
    NigeriaPoliticsTop story
    By Nick Westcott
    February 3, 2023
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    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 ...
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  • Despite billions in aid over decades, the rise in living standards in Africa has been meagre. Some presidents, like Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana (pictured), are calling for countries to move "beyond aid". Credit: Paul Kagame.
    Book reviewEconomy
    By Nick Westcott
    August 19, 2022
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    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 ...
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  • Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba giving a public address after the coup in Burkina Faso. a
    Burkina FasoPolitics
    By Nick Westcott
    January 31, 2022
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    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, ...
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