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 ...

Opinion - It's no longer debatable," scholars Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis wrote in Foreign Affairs in October 2021, "that the US and China . . . are entering their own new cold war." The ...

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.

To many in Africa and beyond, the heightening great-power rivalry smacks of the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union backed rival African leaders, including dictators.

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.