For much of the first Cold War, China was the Soviet Union’s junior partner in the competition with Washington. In the second cold war, their roles are reversed. Russia’s interest in Africa is more ...

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 ...

She focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on the Soviet Union, and the superpower rivalry in ...

Kevin Okoth and Jeremy Harding join Tom to discuss two recent books reassessing decolonisation. Textbook histories used to describe African independence as more or less complete by the mid-1960s, but ...

New Cold War raging, Africa must be careful – Gambari Mr Gambari stated that “a relentless militarisation is taking place” across the world. by Kabir Yusuf. November 23, 2024.

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.

During the Cold War, in everything from propagandistic films to offers of refuge to African Americans, the Soviet Union regularly seized upon U.S. racism as a means of promoting the communist ...