Africa’s democracies will be torn. Some leaders will ally with Beijing and Moscow in the hope of solidifying their power. Others will straddle the divide, seeking aid, debt relief, and investment from ...

The stakes are profound. During the first Cold War, African governments pitted Moscow and Washington against each other, trading membership in rival blocs for finance and weapons that were used to ...

To many in Africa and beyond, the heightening great-power rivalry smacks of the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union backed rival African leaders, including dictators. It is a comparison the ...

Next target: Chad. By Declan Walsh NAIROBI, Kenya — Fueled by guns, gold and social media, the rivalry between Russia and the West in Africa is rapidly escalating. The latest flashpoint is Chad ...

Since we achieved our independence, several distinguished foreigners have visited our young Republic, and among the many questions they have asked have been those concerning our approach to Pan ...

Textbook histories used to describe African independence as more or less complete by the mid-1960s, but millions of people were fighting white minority rule into the 1970s and 1980s, while Cold War ...

The former UN Undersecretary General, Ibrahim Gambari, has warned of a brewing new Cold War, threatening to divide African nations along geopolitical lines. Mr Gambari, a professor and former ...

This public event aims to open a new conversation between historians of the USSR, of Africa, and members of the public with an interest in the Cold War. The Soviet Union was a key actor in ...

The United States’ treatment of African Americans at home exposed it to criticism on the world stage. During the Cold War, in everything from propagandistic films to offers of refuge to African ...

With the US now accusing South Africa of providing arms and ammunition to Russia, we’ve officially been thrown into something comparable with the Cold War setting of the middle to late 20th century.