AFRICA'S GEOPOLITICAL SHIFT IN THE 21st CENTURY
Part I: THE GEOPOLITICS OF AFRICA IN A FAST PACED CHANGING WORLD. Africa has risen to become the main go-to place for the global economic powerhouses yet again. This time, in this new race to dominate the next industrial revolution. A technological driven revolution that experts say has a potential of increasing global GDP by more than 15% in the coming 2 decades. From a realist point of view, everyone wants to be a part of this lucrative economy and to enjoy a share of this multi-trillion predicted economy and this brings about conflicts. Most of which are driven by either state driven or individual interests. For the past two decades, from 2002-2022, the number of African nations aligning themselves to Russia and the BRICS, from the United States and the G7 has surged up ten fold. In order to understand this, one needs to read a little bit on African history during the scramble and partition of Africa, to colonisation and finally to the African resistance and fight for independe...