UNLOCKED /328/ The New Scramble for Africa

On geopolitical competition over Africa.
 
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In light of the 'new Cold War', we look at what the US, Europe, Russia and China's respective "pitches" are to African countries – what are they selling? And we examine the factors that contribute to Africa's place in geopolitics today: Chinese hunger for raw materials, the global war on terror, the green energy transition, drug and people smuggling, and more.
 
If the original Scramble for Africa (1884-1914) was driven by an attempt to displace European class war onto another terrain, can we say anything analogous is happening today?
 
Links:
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
/304/ The Failure of the French Forever War (2) ft. Yvan Guichaoua
Russia in Africa, Financial Times series of articles
Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity, Tricontinental Institute
Italophone Somalia, Then and Now, Iman Mohamed, The Drift
Emmanuel Macron must reset France’s Africa policy, Sylvie Kauffman (Le Monde editor), FT
Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’, Lee Jones & Shahar Hameiri, Chatham House
Let’s talk about neo-colonialism in Africa, Mark Langan, LSE blog
/267/ South Africa Mafia State ft. Benjamin Fogel