International Affairs Archives

Another Military Takeover What We Know About the Coup in Gabon

Victoria AuduSeptember 3, 2023

Gabon follows Niger on the list of countries that have experienced coups in Africa after the military ‘cancelled’ the Gabon general election results. Without military intervention, Ali Bongo Ondimba would have resumed his third term in office continuing a 54-year family dynasty.

August/September 2023

The African Union and the Multipolar World Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World

Blessing Simura and Phatsimo Praymore PhidaSeptember 1, 2023

The global rise of China in the post-2000 era and the strengthening of other regional hegemons has seen Africa being courted by various powers for alignment and realignment. Since the birth of the continental body, the African Union has struggled to develop into a formidable union in the form of the European Union or a strong sub-continent economy like India and China.

AfricaAugust/September 2023vol7-no3

The Not-So-Free Movement of People South Africa’s Haphazard Commitment to Open Borders

Adenike FapohundaSeptember 1, 2023

South Africa’s complex migration policy highlights the contradiction between its commitment to free movement within the African continent and its stringent immigration regulations. The country’s political, philosophical, and economic underpinnings of free movement struggles against the AU's Agenda 2063 and international treaties.

August/September 2023South Africavol7-no3

Crisis Pan-Africanism The Drivers of Institutionalized Pan-Africanism

Abel GaiyaSeptember 1, 2023

The absence of a strong external military threat for Africa has created an atmosphere whereby attempts at institutionalizing pan-Africanism are typically weak and it has typically been through the pressures of crises (warfare, famines and geopolitical competition) that more substantive efforts at regional cooperation have emerged.

AfricaAugust/September 2023vol7-no3

Pan-African Dreams Editor’s Foreword: The Republic V7, N3

Wale LawalSeptember 1, 2023

60 years since the founding of the Organization for African Unity (OAU), where is pan-Africanism today? Our latest issue, Pan-African Dreams, looks at the significance of the African Union today and the future of pan-Africanism.

AfricaAugust/September 2023vol7-no3

Zimbabwe’s Next Hero? Zimbabwe Celebrates Heroes’ Day on Their Way to the Polls

Victoria AuduAugust 15, 2023

Later this month, Zimbabwe will elect a new president. The options include a 45-year-old youth leader and the 80-year-old sitting president, who has been in politics longer than the youth leader has been alive.

August/September 2023Zimbabwe

Congo’s Forgotten Uranium How The DRC Was Used to Make the First Nuclear Bomb

Victoria AuduAugust 8, 2023

On 06 August 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on a Japanese city, Hiroshima, during the Second World War. Did you know that the uranium used in making the bomb and subsequent atomic weapons were sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?

August/September 2023Democratic Republic of the Congo

Concerning Violence How Frantz Fanon Might Interpret Today’s France

Kai MoraJuly 24, 2023

Over the last few weeks, France has seen unrest at the death of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old boy of Moroccan and Algerian origin shot and killed by police officers in a Paris suburb. The events dawn on the 98th birthday of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist who, educated in Paris, spent a critical part of his life in Algeria supporting its nationalist liberation movement against France, seeing the revolution as a ‘bridgehead’ of a pan-African vision.

AfricaAlgeriaBest of 2023: EssaysJune/July 2023

Race Still Matters The End of Affirmative Action and Its Impact on US Higher Education

Kosi OgbuliJuly 2, 2023

The United States Supreme Court's decision to turn its back on affirmative action may mark a pivotal point for higher education, potentially leading to diminished diversity in tertiary institutions and professional sectors.

June/July 2023Nigeria

The Murky Tint of Nigeria’s New President Nigeria’s Global Image under the Tinubu-Shettima Administration

Dare Leke IdowuJune 8, 2023

Controversies surrounding President Tinubu and Vice President Shettima point to an image crisis that could ultimately contribute to Nigeria’s demeaning and stereotypical international reputation.

June/July 2023Nigeria

International Affairs

Another Military Takeover What We Know About the Coup in Gabon

The African Union and the Multipolar World Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World

The Not-So-Free Movement of People South Africa’s Haphazard Commitment to Open Borders

Crisis Pan-Africanism The Drivers of Institutionalized Pan-Africanism

Pan-African Dreams Editor’s Foreword: The Republic V7, N3

Zimbabwe’s Next Hero? Zimbabwe Celebrates Heroes’ Day on Their Way to the Polls

Congo’s Forgotten Uranium How The DRC Was Used to Make the First Nuclear Bomb

Concerning Violence How Frantz Fanon Might Interpret Today’s France

Race Still Matters The End of Affirmative Action and Its Impact on US Higher Education

The Murky Tint of Nigeria’s New President Nigeria’s Global Image under the Tinubu-Shettima Administration

Why Nigerians Buy Foreign Citizenship

The Contradictions of Benin’s Alleged Coup Plot

A Poet and His Divine Inquiry

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