Nigeria’s increasingly close relationship with France marks a departure from six decades of foreign policy aimed at reducing French influence in West Africa. An increasingly close relationship with a power that has long sought to undermine Nigerian influence in West Africa will benefit only politically connected business elites.
The war of words between Pope Leo XIV and US President Donald Trump has revived the age-old clash between the sacred and the secular. But Trump has severely misjudged the “soft power” of the world’s preeminent religious leader, and attacking a popular pontiff will likely come at a high political cost.
His vision for America is defined as much by whom he lets in as by whom he keeps out
By his own account, America’s mission in Venezuela is to seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves
US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”
The geopolitical environment is arguably not conducive to pursuing reparations for slavery and colonialism. But Africa and its diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe continue to make headway, with a focus on seeking financial compensation and ending racial discrimination
With US President Donald Trump blithely brushing aside the United Nations’ many achievements, it is worth revisiting the organization’s successes and failures over the years. While it is obvious that the world’s premier multilateral body must reform, it is equally obvious that we would all be worse off without it.
The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies
My latest book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994
South Africa has laid a solid foundation as G20 chair, undeterred by the US’s disruptions