International Affairs Archives

Exploring Global Mobility with Alma Asinobi

Osione Oseni-ElamahApril 20, 2025

Nigerian travel and lifestyle content creator, Alma Asinobi, is on a mission to redefine global exploration by making travel accessible to those with low mobility passports.

AfricaApril/May 2025Interviews

The Charged Politics of an African Passport

Mustapha IsaApril 13, 2025

Africans remain constrained within and outside the continent due to their passports, which have hindered the exploration of global opportunities.

AfricaApril/May 2025

What the American Foreign Aid Freeze Means for Africa

Njahira GitahiMarch 30, 2025

In his second term as the president of the United States, Donald Trump has committed to cutting foreign aid, with a particular focus on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) raising questions about whether we are witnessing a withdrawal of American benevolence or a refashioning of soft power.

February/March 2025

The New Realpolitik

Muzz MuhammadMarch 9, 2025

In a deal between Tinubu’s Nigeria and Trump’s America, Trump wins. Tinubu might win too. The Nigerian people will not.

February/March 2025Nigeria

The Politicization of Fact-Checking

Chioma IrukeFebruary 16, 2025

The role and perception of fact-checking in regions with fragile trust in media and government has sparked recent debates, as analysts question its effectiveness amid partisan exploitation by political actors.

AfricaFebruary/March 2025

The Mad Scramble for Congo

Poncia NyemboFebruary 9, 2025

At the heart of Congo’s prolonged crises is a scramble for its natural resources, similar to the precolonial scramble for Africa. All hands must be on deck this time to protect the over 100 million Congolese lives caught in this unfortunate unending war.

Democratic Republic of the CongoFebruary/March 2025

Congo-Brazzaville’s Chinese Roulette

Andréa NgombetFebruary 9, 2025

As new co-chair of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) until 2027, what does the relationship between the Republic of Congo (or Congo-Brazzaville) and China illuminate about global economic interests, political alignments and geostrategy?

Congo-BrazzavilleFebruary/March 2025

The Captive Democracy of South Africa’s Coalition Governance

Rekgotsofetse Chikane and David EverattFebruary 2, 2025

Coalition governance offers potential for enhancing democracy in theory; but the dominance of party-political funding and influence of elite and commercial interests from the minerals-energy-finance sectors risk exacerbating political and economic inequalities in South Africa.

February/March 2025South Africa

Madagascar’s Promising Asia–Pacific Strategy

Juvence F. RamasyJanuary 26, 2025

The growing importance of the Indo-Pacific region in global strategizing amid increasing economic globalization and maritimization of trade has prompted Madagascar to deepen its relationships with Asian countries such as China, Japan and South Korea.

December 24/January 25Madagascar

Tinubu’s Precious Frenchship

IGWE KELECHI NJOKUJanuary 19, 2025

Amid growing anti-French sentiments in former African colonies, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s relationship with France raises the question of whether Nigeria will become Paris’s new inroad into Africa.

December 24/January 25Nigeria

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