CHRIS ROPER: Africa a pawn in geopolitical chess game
Attempts to cosy up to Africa with offers of financial aid are all good and well, but they don’t mask the fundamental inequalities baked into the international system
01 September 2022 - 05:00
As a continent, we’re being wooed by a bunch of suddenly affectionate countries from all around the world.
If this were a love story, it would be written by someone who combines the mannered courtship rituals of Jane Austen’s male protagonists with the impenetrable motivations of John le Carré’s exhausted spies. To paraphrase Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a power-hungry country in possession of an ailing fortune, must be in want of a new faux-colony.” ..
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