Who Dey Fear Donald Trump?

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‘Who Dey Fear Donald Trump?’ assesses Africa’s global positioning in the new Trumpian era of multipolarity.

Who Dey Fear Donald Trump?

Wale LawalMay 22, 2025

‘Who Dey Fear Donald Trump?’ assesses Africa’s global positioning in the new Trumpian era of multipolarity.

International Affairs

African Cooperation in the Age of Anti-Globalization

Abel B. S. GaiyaMay 22, 2025

Unlike nineteenth-century multipolarity where Africa had limited internal interaction and post-colonial bipolarity when South Africa was under apartheid, the present state of multipolarity under anti-globalization may create sufficient pressure and open up a window for Africa’s powers to pursue clos

International Affairs

Africa’s Opportunity in the Trumpian Age of American Transactionalism

Andréa NgombetMay 22, 2025

Amid Trump’s disruptive return, Africa isn’t just reacting—it’s recalibrating. The continent has the opportunity to turn Washington’s unpredictability into a strategic advantage.

International Affairs

Africa’s Climate Future in a Fragmented Multipolar World

Chido NyaruwataMay 22, 2025

Africa’s ability to shape its climate future in a multipolar world depends on deepening feminist, decolonial and intersectional approaches to foreign policy, development cooperation and justice.

Climate Change

Africa and the Politics of Foreign Aid

Blessing SimuraMay 22, 2025

President Donald Trump’s major changes to the United States’ foreign aid programmes have put Africa in a position where the continent has to question its place in a multipolar world order and strive for its own growth.

International Affairs

Lagos Avenue

Manasseh Azure AwuniMay 22, 2025

‘I had heard that police had raided Lagos Avenue. If that good Samaritan hadn’t come my way, I probably might have been paraded in front of the cameras and made it to the front pages of the tabloids that screamed: POLICE ARREST 54 ASHAWO GIRLS AT LAGOS AVENUE.

Culture & Society

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Conversation in Transit

E. C. OsonduMay 22, 2025

‘When I boarded the Uber, my driver immediately identified me as African—specifically Nigerian. “You know, we know ourselves. We can tell when we see each other that we are from the same Africa,” he said.

Culture & Society

‘Who Do We Imagine AI Is Built By and Built For?’

Wale LawalAugust 24, 2025

With AI proponents promising to ‘save’ Africa, Nanjala Nyabola asks an urgent question: what happens when a continent’s future is outsourced to someone else’s imagination?

Science & Technology

The Economic Uncertainties of the AfCFTA Amidst Regional Conflict

Eberechukwu EzikeMay 22, 2025

The AfCFTA’s potential to transform intra-African trade risks being undermined by the volatility created by instability in the Sahel and Great Lakes regions.

Economics

The Gendered Blindspots of Climate Policies

Imad MusaMay 22, 2025

Gender alone does not determine climate vulnerability, and an intersectional approach that accounts for class, economic status and sociocultural norms must be brought into climate policies to move beyond representation towards meaningful empowerment.

Climate Change

‘Translation Is Where All Languages Meet’

Mũkoma wa NgũgĩMay 22, 2025

Kenyan writer and author of Unbury Our Dead with Song, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, does not believe in the idea of a ‘great African novel’: ‘I do not think there is such a thing as the “great African novel”—or the “great Russian” or “European” novel—nor do I believe in the idea of major and minor literatures.

First Draft

A Feminist Pan-Africanism for a World in Flux

Toni HaastrupMay 22, 2025

As the impacts of recent events in global politics continue to reverberate, business as usual for Africa is impossible. A radical new vision is needed and possible.

Culture & Society

Naledi Pandor’s Feminist Reimagining of Africa’s Global Engagement

Maggie LoWillaMay 22, 2025

Global politics has often been framed as the ‘business of men’. Yet, Dr Naledi Pandor’s leadership disorders colonial patriarchal expectations of who does politics and how politics is done.

Economics

The Timeless Solutions of the Gadaa System

Nicholas KimbleMay 22, 2025

The Gadaa system of the Oromo people of Kenya and Ethiopia offers an indigenous method of governance in Africa, as the adopted Western democracy seems to be failing the continent.

History

Algeria’s Golden Opportunity

Lotfi SourMay 22, 2025

Africa’s largest country, Algeria, has a sizeable record of global mediation, spanning the Iran-Iraq conflict in 1975 to the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict in 2000. Algeria’s evolving diplomacy raises questions on how it balances its revolutionary roots with pragmatic politics.

Politics & Security

The Bronze Cracks in ECOWAS’s Golden Jubilee

Chinyere Rita Agu PhDMay 22, 2025

As ECOWAS marks its 50th anniversary, the regional union faces remarkable successes and daunting challenges that have raised questions about its future.

International Affairs

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