Category : Foreign Policy Analysis
Strategies for Uganda to Harness China’s Development Finance
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February 2nd, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi On 8th August 2023, David Theis-the Press Secretary and Spokesperson of the World Bank Group- released a statement about Uganda in the wake of our Parliament’s passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, noting that “no new public financing to Uganda will be presented to our Board of Executive Directors until the efficacy of […]
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Let’s not diminish Uganda’s G77 & China leadership
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January 30th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi On 21st January 2024, Uganda assumed chairmanship of the Group of 77 (G77) and China during the official opening of the Third South Summit at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The G77 is a coalition of over 130 developing countries founded to promote shared economic interests and to amplify their negotiation voice at the […]
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Navigating the minefield of negative media punchlines on China-Africa relations will take forming our own opinions
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January 27th, 2024
By George Musiime As Africans, we cannot continue to be a people that turn on our own because we have outsiders urging us on to do so. We are as human, as the next human trying to help us determine our destiny. Unfortunately, to use the words of one notable Son of Africa Dr. Kaihura […]
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Examining Ideological Foundations Informing China & the West’s Relations with Africa
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January 24th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi 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 […]
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Myths & Misconceptions: How the West biases our perception of China
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January 15th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi We are interesting animals, humans. Interesting! Nobel Laurette and profound cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, has argued that our brains are predisposed to give priority to bad news. That negative perceptions stick to our psyche faster than positive perceptions. If true, nowhere has this attribute of […]
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Non-Aligned Movement Offers us Hopes for a Multipolar World
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January 10th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi. The world’s bipolar power structure which had determined the security policies of the two global powers, the USA and USSR, collapsed with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. This left America as the sole power with global dominance. I think that the inherent structure of unipolarity and the U.S.’s […]
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They Came, They Saw, They Joined: China’S Association With G77
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January 10th, 2024
By Steven Akabwayi While at Kigezi High School Kabale, we had a teacher who was fond of making fun of students but we could find it hard to hate him because of his great sense of humor and storytelling skills that made us fall in love with history. One of the remarkable phrases I remember from […]
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China’s Example for Uganda’s Development Dilemmas
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January 8th, 2024
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi If you are to read only one line in this article, and merely for motivational value, it is that China reassures us of the possibility of changing the course of history. It did so. I don’t suggest we should copy and paste the Chinese model. I call that we learn […]
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Israel at the International Court of Justice: A Stern Test for the United Nations and its Institutions
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January 4th, 2024
By Marvin Hannington Kalema The year 2024 promises to be yet another interesting one if the events that transpired at the close of the past year are anything to go by. On the 29th of December 2023, the government of the Republic of South Africa formally filed a case against the state of Israel with […]
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SQUEEZE OR SYMBIOSIS? WEST’S BAD BET ON CHINA-AFRICA RELATIONS
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December 26th, 2023
During my high school years, music wasn’t just an entertainment to me ,it was the air I breathed, I had a taste for different music genres but more remarkably, I held Bob Marley’s Reggae and Pharrell William’s RnB so dearly. Bob and Pharell’s hits were not just a mere sound to me but a gateway […]
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