The Chinese presence in Africa: pure economic geopolitics
Since his election in 2013, President Xi Jinping made it clear that China would have a say in African development over the coming decades
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Rethinking aid to Africa as a way to dethrone mainstream assumptions
The interactions between long-term processes of transformations and short-term changes both at national and international levels bring to the surface persisting structural difficulties and, at the same time, new opportunities to be seized.…
Regional terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel connections
Long before Western colonization, it was merchants from the Maghreb that brought Islam to West Africa. Since the ninth century, it has spread widely and now the region is home to some of the largest concentrations of believers in the…
Nigeria: Boko Haram è ridimensionato ma le sfide restano
A confermare che la strategia di contrasto a Boko Haram messa in campo dal Presidente Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria stesse producendo risultati positivi ci sono ormai vari riscontri.
Urbanization in Central Africa: contradictions and challenges
“There are no wealthy countries that are not urbanized, but there are plenty of urbanized countries that are not wealthy.” This eloquent phrasing by urban analysts Joseph Parilla and Alan Berube gives adequate context to the phenomenon of…