Adekeye Adebajo's book is an analysis of Africa in terms of 30 years of research and provides an overview of decades since the 1994 collapse of apartheid.
My new book, The Splendid Tapestry of African Life: Resilient Continent, its Diaspora, and 145 Essays from World, represents the clear fruits of history, regional integration, foreign policy, international policy, international policy, international policy, film, sports, and travel, over 30 years of history, foreign policy, international relations, culture, film, sports and travel, including the diaspora of Europe, Europe and Calbian.
This volume seeks to capture the periodists of the post-apartheid era after a fifth-century quest for the continent's fifth-century liberation from the twin tragedy of Europe-led transatlantic slavery and colonialism, and ends with the democratic transition of South Africa in 1994.
The battle for Africa's independence from the late 50s was reflected by similar battles in the Caribbean and American civil rights struggles. Both involved black Atlantic citizens: heirs to slavery and colonialism.
I entered the field of international relations as Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years of confinement in 1990 and negotiated the democratic future of South Africa at the end of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union.
Modern times threaten the looming battle between America (under Donald Trump's unstable nativeist regime). This is a relative decline, and Africa still has a major military presence, with Africa's biggest trading partner at $295 billion, accounting for about half the half.
Africa must contest these powers and other powers involved in the security, trade and investment activities of the continent, such as Russia, France, the EU and Gulf countries.
Half of the UN's 58 peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era are held in Africa, but world groups currently deploy 80% of peacekeeping forces across the continent.
Therefore, the UN remains Africa's most important security partner, with conflicts continuing to rage from the Great Lakes to Central Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and northern Mozambique.
While intra-African trade remains at just 15%, Africa's foreign debt is $1.2 trillion, and governments typically spend more than 45% of their revenues on serving these unsustainable debts, not the key social sector.
Therefore, Africa's continued struggle to achieve effective regional integration and industrialization constitutes the main focus of this book.
Similarly, 20 Caribbean microstates struggle to promote effective regional integration through the Caribbean community, often prioritizing parochial identities over local identities.
These essays are divided into ten main sections. The first part examines the Pan-African struggle against slavery, imperialism and imperialism, and the global African effort to achieve slavery and colonialism reparations, the theme of the 2025 African Union (AU) – and the legacy of global African efforts to promote cultural self-realization.
The subjects covered include pan-African public intellectual, western racism against Africa, German genocide in Namibia, religion, Cecil Rhodes' African heritage on Africa, African imperialism, cultural stereotypes in Africa, diversity of African life, transformation of the white scientific monuments of African historical monuments, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, historical monuments in Africa, and the transformation of the historical monuments in Africa. International neglect of damage caused by Covid-19 and the 2016 Haiti hurricane.
The criticism has also been taken over by past British afro-pethic authors such as Joseph Conrad and Graham Green. Current British Afrofieves such as Nigel Bigger, Richard Dowden, Stephen Ellis and Mark Haband, as well as Danvisa Moyo, an afro-pethic Zambian economist.
The second part assesses the challenges of African regionalism through the efforts of African unity, the AU, South African development communities and West African economic communities, examining regional integration initiatives, including Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific and Afro-Asian cooperation.
Part 3 focuses on a wide range of topics in African politics, diagnosing the success and failure of the continent, covering topics such as conflict resolution, popular revolutions, and the role of young activists and local hegemons through its “crazy” politicians and “experts” soldiers.
They also discussed the negative impact of European colonial engineering on African state construction and the 2011 “Afro Arab Springs” that overthrew dictatorship in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
With the advantage of living in South Africa for 21 years as a Nigerian citizen, the fourth section analyzes the outlook of two African regions Hegemon (Nigeria and South Africa) by examining domestic and foreign policies, leading the continent, and analysing the complex relationship between cooperative peace structure initiatives and cooperation and competition.
It also provides criticism of the writings of South African analysts Mills Soko and Peter Fabricius.
The fifth part evaluates Africa's international relations and examines Kenyan scholar Ali Mazurui's 1967 concept of Pax Africana.
Fourteen Nobel Peace Prize winners of African descent have been looked into, and the Tunisian Nobelist Quartet is counted as a single recipient.
The issues of conflict resolution from Liberia and Bosnia to Libya and Western Sahara, along with efforts from African regional agencies and the United Nations, are also being debated to silence African guns.
I assess the complex relationships between Africa and the EU and the role of bilateral foreign languages in France, the US, China and Russia in Africa.
While the afro-pessimistic neo-colonial meditations of American journalist Robert Kaplan and British economist Paul Collier have been criticised, the perspectives of African-American analysts Francis Kornegai and South African Greg Mills are being monitored in Libya.
The sixth part focuses on the rich diversity of black Atlantic culture and cinema, including the 1977 Nigeria-hosted second world black and African arts and culture festival. The phenomenon of Nollywood, Nigerian film industry. Nigerian Nobel Literary admiration, the death of Wore Soyinka's play and film, and the film Karsi: The story of Solomon Mafrangu, the King's Jockey and South African director Mandra Dube's film.
Analyse the deadly charm of global Africa and win in Hollywood. We look into the life and era of Caribbean American artist Harry Belafonte and review Maya Rainey's Black Bottom, based on the plays of African-American playwright August Wilson and the King of Women, if Selma, Black Panther and Beal Street can speak, if Bale Street can speak.
The seventh part examines the history of African soccer, the success and failure of modern Nigerian soccer, and the excellence of global African sportsmen at the Football World Cup.
He also has been praised for topics such as Brazilian soccer and New Zealand rugby geniuses. A Pan Africa athlete who excelled at the 2015 World Athletics Championships. The 1964 and 2021 Tokyo Olympics, and last year's Paris Olympics.
Additionally, the golden age of West Indian cricket has been analyzed between 1980 and 1995.
The eighth section presents travel to several major African cities, including Lagos, Abuja, Accra, Abidjan, Johannesburg and Rayonne.
Part 9 examines the trans-African world through a multilateral lens, analyzing the legacy of impactful conferences in Berlin (1884 and 1885) and Bandung (1955), as well as the evolving geopolitical struggles of Pax Americana and Pax Sinica.
Before examining the global Southern efforts to revive the Cold War-era unorganised concept in the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, I propose how Africa can be positioned in this rapidly changing global strategic environment.
After highlighting the EU's regional construction initiative, this section addresses the UN legacy of 75 and its institutional reform efforts. The world's humanitarian mission in Iraq in the late 1990s. The vain attempts of the eight-person group (G8) and the G20 are trying to alleviate global poverty and promote the exaggerated grand standout of the International Development and the World Economic Forum.
The tenth and final section of the book addresses the Anglo-Saxon world and the UK in America and the UK, where I spent a total of 21 years.
The issues of one-sided imperialism, hubristic hypocrisy, epic racism of racism, and stained wool racism have been analyzed in the politics of both countries, highlighting the roles of figures such as Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Joe Harris, Boris Johnson, Rhodes, and more.
Therefore, the book offers a panoramic view of the Black Atlantic Oceans of Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe, in a comprehensive yet concise and very easy to read volume.
Professor Adekeye Adebajo is a senior researcher at the Scholarship Center at the University of Pretoria.
