Has America Lost the “New Scramble for Africa?”

China in Africa, Headline, US-Africa Relations

Editor’s Note: In this piece, Keshawn Young argues that Amer­i­ca appears to be the “sore los­er” in the “scram­ble for Africa,” a bat­tle it is wag­ing against Rus­sia and Chi­na in Africa.  On Octo­ber 21, Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Minnesota’s 5th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, Ilhan Omar, called out Amer­i­ca for its con­tin­u­ing strug­gle to estab­lish strong…

Dawn of a second Cold War and the ‘scramble for Africa’

Business and Finance, Business and Investment, China in Africa, HeadlineLeave a comment

Abstract Ample empir­i­cal evi­dence shows that the African Con­ti­nen­tal Free Trade Area (AfCF­TA) will boost the com­pet­i­tive­ness of African economies and accel­er­ate the diver­si­fi­ca­tion of sources of growth and trade to deep­en eco­nom­ic inte­gra­tion in Africa and enhance the region’s assim­i­la­tion into the world econ­o­my. How­ev­er, real­iz­ing these poten­tials hinges on revers­ing the cur­rent trend…