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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS (JoAFA)
Published Since: 2014. It is accredited by DHET (the South African regulator of Higher Education) and indexed by IBSS, JSTOR, COPERNICUS, ERIH PLUS, ProQuest, EBSCO, SABINET and J-Gate.
Publication Frequency: Triannual ISSN: 2056-564X E-ISSN: 2056-5658

Dear readers,  In this issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs, contributors focus on an Africa-centered development and security analysis from multiple perspectives. They include pressures from the international environment (Enaifoghe et.al.), the evaluation of bilateral relationships with foreign entities such as the European Union and Gambia (Omotosho et. al.), and China and Ethiopia (Benjamin). The authors also provide an assessment of some internal challenges: the issue of porous borders such as between Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria (Obah-Akpowoghaha et. al.), and of the need to embed African values in African policy evaluation using an approach based on the concept of “Ubuntu” (Uwizeyimana). Furthermore, authors suggest solutions that are both practical (the African Continental Free Trade Agreement by Okafor and Udibe) and theoretical, linking ideology and international politics (Agbude and Lawal). While these analyses are far from being exhaustive, they ............

  The last issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs was published amid the multi-faceted challenges of Covid-19 for the African continent. This issue emphasizes foreign affairs from an African perspective: from Zimbabwe-China relationships (Chivanga and Monye), western influence on public administration epistemology (Erasmus), the philosophy behind Nigeria’s foreign policy for the last 60 years (Mbara and Gopal), South Africa-Zimbabwe foreign policy during Zuma’s administration (Langa and Shai), a comparative study of India’s and South Africa’s agricultural economies (Mbatha), to making a case for African exceptionalism with focus on Joaquim Chissano’s leadership style (Nyuykonge and Shulika). This issue shows the importance of study of African foreign affairs. An Africa-centered perspective reifies the needs and aspirations of African people. It is a good step in ensuring peace and economic development in the region. And, beyond............

Dear readers   This issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs comes in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic. Despite personal and social challenges involved, contributors have made every effort to produce thoughtful and timely analyses. I am grateful to them.   Covid-19 is a global phenomenon. But it has fragmented the international community. It has also become a symbol of a U.S.-China potential Cold War. Thus, geopolitical calculations may intensify and influence great powers’ involvement in Africa. Furthermore, both developed and developing countries are experiencing recession simultaneously. International cooperation is needed to address existing global challenges, but the solutions are to be local. For, example, by mid-century, just 30 years from now, due to severe climate, the world food production may decline by 30 percent and food prices double while the world population is expected to grow 30 percent. Conflict may erupt consequently and, in turn,............

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The ‘Western leverage and linkage’ factor in African Foreign Affairs Despite its peripheral position and the sometimes-negligible contributions, Africa is deeply embedded in global political economy. This embeddedness becomes even clearer when one analyses Africa‘s relations with the world and relations between African states and in the regional bodies they establish. Of course it is often difficult to find a balance or accord equal weight on the extent to which ‗global externalities‘ as opposed to endogenous factors impact on the direction and even character of state relations within Africa and how these also influence Africa‘s foreign affairs. To capture the role of both domestic and international factors in African foreign affairs one is tempted to invoke the notion of ‗Western leverage and linkage‘ as one of the dominant if not the most key factors in shaping African foreign affairs. It‘s a factor which is both an indicator of Africa&ls............

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 When I was contacted to be a guest editor of this globally respected journal, many thoughts came to my mind bothering on whether to contact those I know of as specialists in Foreign Policy and International Politics in general, or to send out a call for papers to scholars, pundits and foreign affairs analysts, in order to assemble their positions on the development of international relations in Africa. I eventually settled for a call for paper/s, which yielded positive results as many papers where submitted. Articles in this edition have made frantic intellectual effort towards exploring many social issues in Africa from theoretical as well as empirical points of view. They have been peer reviewed before being carefully and meticulously selected by the editor. It is a continuous attempt towards exploring and interrogating social issues that confront Africa and the entire world.    Lucky Asuelime, in Mnangagwa’s Foreign Policy is an eye opener for students of fore............

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