‘’Imagine this: smooth roads and railway lines weaved through our landscapes, not just connecting places, but stitching dreams to reality. They are not just routes; they are the veins of commerce, making business not just easy, but irresistible. ‘’ Now end that imagination, and let us embark on a journey into reality, the African continent […]
USAID has one of the most appealing organisational commitments ever encapsulated in a mission statement. On behalf of the American people, they commit to promoting and demonstrating democratic values abroad and advancing a free, peaceful, and prosperous world. They are devoted to supporting America’s foreign policy by leading the U.S. Government’s international development and disaster […]
The nation breathes in a symphony of fiscal toxins, with each exhale dealing a crushing blow to its fragile economy. Loans of all kinds now sit on its people’s shoulders, tasked with bearing the weight of unjustified financial obligations. National debts, the financial chains binding governments come in various haunting forms and they are the […]
Probably you have heard about it. Probably not. What is it? Let us first understand what it isn’t. Many initiatives from China suffer from being misunderstood, even at the highest echelons of policy experts around the world. This is due to the saturation in public media internationally by Western propaganda and culture, which has bred […]
At the dawn of African independence, Kwame Nkrumah is quoted to have said “Seek ye first the political Kingdom and all else shall be added unto you.” However, as reality has proved to us, whereas political freedom might have been a necessary condition for Africa’s economic freedom, some analysts contend that this was not necessarily a sufficient […]
As a continent that is unfortunately suffering late development, Africa is a highly engaged region of the globe with interventions in trade, politics, and culture from the different global powers. We can taxonomize the divide of global powers intervening in Africa today under two categories; the West and China (East). How Africa benefits or loses […]
I’m I a little late to the party? It seems all the experts have already weighed in on the recent move by the Biden administration to exclude Uganda from the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA) platform. Just last week the inevitable happened with Uganda being struck of the list of AGOA participating nations. AGOA is a […]
Recently, the European Union(EU) Parliament issued a formal complaint against the Chinese People’s Republic regarding its trade deficit with China. This complaint has sparked global debate about the nature and impact of China’s economic engagement with the world especially with developing nations. While the EU’s concerns are not without merit, in the new multipolar world, the […]
China’s ‘Win-Win’ Cooperation with Global South Signals Shared Vision By Abubakar M. Zirabamuzale The term North/South divide, so often described by economists and scholars alike as the “Brandt Line”, has been around for 40 years now. Initially, it didn’t seem to mean much since it was coined by the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt in his […]
By Akech Sarah Elias In international relations and foreign policy, diplomacy is considered to be a major catalyst for good relations of countries and a step-in introduction and implementation of social-economic development projects of a country. Like in human beings, good cooperation and relations among countries which is always characterized by effective diplomacy, international relations […]