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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 11, Number 3, December 2024

From the liberation struggles in Africa, digital diplomacy in Kenya-South Africa relationships, the management of geopolitical stability between Malawi and Mozambique, to the transformation of foreign policy after the 2020 constitution in Algeria, Africa is becoming more assertive in international and intra-continental affairs in face of a rapidly changing global environment. Last summer, the French President recognized Western Sahara as part of Morocco. The newly reelected President of Algeria cancelled his long-expected visit to Paris. The re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States will affect world affairs including US policy vis-à-vis Africa. The aftermath of the climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan (November 2024), one hopes, will somehow help Africa mitigate the negative effects of climate change. In all cases, it is important that, through improvements in domestic and intercontinental affairs, Africa prepare to assume its role in the future bec...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 11, Number 2, August 2024

One more time, the Journal of African Foreign Affairs is bringing to you a series of original research done on Africa from African perspective. It goes from climate change, African states’ contributions to the International Law, interactions with great powers such as the United States, Europe, China, intra-African affairs such as South Africa-Nigeria relationships, to the influence of Russia-Ukraine war on global order. What is important in seeing and explaining the world from African perspective, sui generis, is the agency of the continent in influencing the world of today and the envisioning of tomorrow by the power of ideas. Politics and development are not only about material resources and leadership, but also about ideas. The last article discusses the influence of the Russia-Ukraine war on the global order. The fear, when the war started, was the flow of European refugees into Africa. Instead, there are reports that the war itself has spilled over to Africa. Niger and Mal...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 11, Number 1, April 2024

This issue of the African Journal of Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) is being published in a particularly turbulent geopolitical environment. Since the 2020s, the international order seems to be moving adrift: Brexit (2020); the United States’ (US) chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after the fall of Kaboul (2021); Russia’s war on Ukraine (2022); Gabon and Togo joining the Commonwealth (2022); surprise reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran (2023); annexation of Nagorno Karabakh by Azerbaijan (2023); return of Syria to the Arab League (2023); civil war in Sudan (2023); October 7, 2023 events in which Israeli civilians were killed and/or kidnapped by Hamas and other non-state armed groups, followed by a new Israeli-Palestinian war; a series of military coups d’etat in western Sahel; and US’ military gesticulations in the Middle East where local conflicts are merging into one regional war. How does one explain this runaway geopolitical upheaval? How does one comprehend the multi...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 10, Number 3, December 2023

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 10, Number 2, August 2023

 This issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs has a variety of topics that can be classified in four categories: direct relationships with great powers such as France and China, the impact of international events on Africa such as the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war, international organizations and the relationships of a liberation movement such as the Southern African National Liberation Movements with the United Nations, and intra-African affairs. The range of topics reflects the increasing complexity of the environment in which evolve African affairs. Within a generation Germany might become the most important military power in the European Union. Will Europe experience a period of deindustrialization of which the United States will be the principal beneficiary? Will a Cold War materialize between China and the United States, much more complex than the previous one, and with a racial overtone? What will be the consequences of such an environment for Africa? And what are the cha...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 10, Number 1, April 2023

 Dear friends, This issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs focuses on Africa in world affairs with particular emphasis on the continent’s relationships with the BRICS nations including intra-BRICS interactions with India, China, and Russia and extra-BRICS politics vis-à-vis the European Union and in the Pakistan-India conflict. Of course, South Africa’s role is unavoidable. It ends with Africa’s own endeavors from the role of parliamentary diplomacy in foreign policy making in Zimbabwe, to regional organizations such as SADEC and COMESA, and to continent-wide economic reconfiguration in the form of African Continental Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA). Professor Jagdish Sheth of Emory University, author of Chindia Rising: Implications for Global Competitiveness (2011), in a video presentation titled “The African Awakening: When Will the Giant Wake Up” asserted that the second half of the 21st century will be an African century the same wa...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 9, Number 3, December 2022

The issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs of December 2022 begins with practical analysis of specific cases such as the US and Africa in relation to the Agenda 2063, the Franco- Rwandese collaboration in southern Africa, and various aspects of China’s policy vis-à-vis Africa. It examines the challenges and opportunities of cyber diplomacy and cyber security, envisioning a move toward a “Borderless Regional End” in Africa, and discusses the “international relations” among subregional entities. In so doing, this issue combines praxis and theory by bringing to the reader the concepts of paradiplomacy, proposing an explanatory theory of the relationship between international NGOs and authoritarian regimes, and using Afro-decolonial principle to analyze the changes and continuities in China’s foreign policy towards South Africa. This illustrates the commitment of the African Journal of Foreign Affairs to be an integral part of the geopolitics of the production of inno...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 9, Number 2, August 2022

This issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs features various aspects of the continent’s dynamism that are not usually highlighted in commentaries about Africa. The titles spanning from relationships with China, Saudi Arabia, and the BRICS countries to the role of non-state actors in foreign policy making, and to the ideological construct of terrorism show the agency of the continent in dealing with world politics. After all, isn’t Africa the “Real roots of the modern world” as Olúfémi Táiwò affirmed in an article of the same sub-title published in the Foreign Affairs issue of May/June 2022? Take for example the geopolitics of the production of innovative ideas: the first coffee shop opened in Oxford in 1650.The drink produced by Black labor and sweetened by the sweat of enslaved Africans created a culture for conversation and debates in Europe that would lead to innovative ideas. To borrow one more example from Táiw&og...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 9, Number 1, April 2022

In this issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs, the reader will find analyses ranging from non-state actors, sub-state actors, sovereign state policies, and state-to-state relationships particularly with China. A regular reader may notice that the relationships between China (the biggest developing country) and Africa (the biggest continent with developing countries) have been more the focus of our contributors than the relationships between the African continent and Western countries. Signs of the time? Pivot to the East? It is also noticeable that, in most of Western books about geostrategy, Africa is barely mentioned. In that respect, a book by late Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (2012) comes to mind. It may not be a matter of mutual ignorance but certainly that of emphasis. As the topics of this issue show, the emphasis is on the agency of African states and the role they play within the continent and vis-à-vis players ...

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Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) Volume 8, Number 3, December 2021

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