empire and fragmentation
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The New Scramble For Africa: How Fragmentation Serve Empire’s Latest Phase

The continent’s territory and minerals have become the currency of a multipolar contest – one in which the old colonial powers, rising Gulf states, and rival hegemons each pursue distinct but overlapping strategies of extraction and containment Introduction: The Return of the Scramble – But Not As We Knew It The spectacle of great powers… Continue reading
African geopolitics, Belt and Road Initiative, China-Africa relations, corridor geopolitics, critical minerals, ECOWAS withdrawal, empire and fragmentation, Ethiopia fragmentation, France Africa policy, great power rivalry, Kenya diplomacy, military basing, mineral diplomacy, Morocco Western Sahara, resource competition, resource-for-security deals, RSF Sudan, Russia-Africa relations, Sahel rupture, StraitBelt doctrine, Sudan partition, Tanzania mineral logistics, UAE influence, US National Security Strategy, Western Sahara
