I'm hiring! Come and work on a project connecting policy and research. We are looking for a casual research assistant for our policy research project on Africa and #digital #geopolitics funded by CIGI. Tasks: qualitative desk research+ webinar org.

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How China🇨🇳 became a crisis mediator (or contract enforcer...) by default between Benin🇧🇯 and Niger🇳🇪 to finally get WAPCO's first 1million oil barrels exported via Sèmè port - is a case study to thoroughly investigate. This story has so many layers...
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Column: African countries are largely absent from D.C.’s diplomatic scene. It’s partly a question of resources, but it’s also about political will and hustle, writes our senior foreign affairs correspondent Nahal Toosi. politico.com/news/magazine/…

#READING L'Afrique face au dilemme des deux «Chine»: Abdoul Karim Saidou (Uni Thomas Sankara🇧🇫) analyse les stratégies fluctuantes de reconnaissance diplomatique du Niger et du B. Faso à l’égard de 🇨🇳 /🇹🇼 par la construction sociale de l'intérêt national
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ISA executive committee: please find here (and in an email sent to you today) an open letter calling for immediate actions to address the #genocide in #Palestine , signed by more than 100 of your current, former and prospective members tinyurl.com/mr27vjsu

Honoured to deliver the keynote speech on 'Africa and China: methods, actors, and geopolitics in the everyday'at the inaugural conference of #AISAC , local chapter of Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk in 🇮🇹, in a wonderful setting at the geography department at Università di Padova .Congrats to the organisers!

Unwinding after an intense #ISA2024 . A few gems from the Zanele Muholi #EyeMe exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Peace Medie and Nadège Compaore

Great #ISA2024 reunion in San Francisco with Peace Medie , Lyn Kouadio, Nadège Compaore (@UofT), and Abii-Tah Bih (@Cambridge_Uni).

Looking forward to #ISA2024 in #SanFrancisco next week! Join us for what promises to be very insightful discussions that will explore Multilateral responses to Great power rivalries; Bringing Global IR to the classroom; Contributions of African systems of Political Thought to IR

Very insightful (and frank!) conversations in Berlin🇩🇪 about the German Sahel policy amidst geopolitical rivalries at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Africa department and at a Megatrends Afrika seminar at SWP Berlin on strategic partnerships with coastal countries where I discussed my recent policy brief

Sharing my latest Megatrends Afrika publication📝 on the role of external #security #partnerships for coastal West African states 🇧🇯🇬🇭🇹🇬.This policy brief explores how these states strategically approach external security partnerships with (non) western countries
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Are Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions marginalised in China'ssub-national allocations of development aid to🇨🇲? This insightful article addresses this question by exploring the sub-national geography of 🇨🇳 loan-funded projects across 🇨🇲 admin. regions
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We have just published a dataset of over 3,000 African diplomats attending international training programmes for newly independent states from 1955-1997. You can find it here: doi.org/10.18742/25315…

'Différents aspects de sa production universitaire s’enracinent dans un vécu et dans des débats généralement ignorés ou passés sous silence en Occident'
Par Lionel Zevounou
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Sharing some news:
1️⃣I am joining African Affairs as the new reviews editor(review essays/book reviews) in addition to my editorial board member role

2️⃣My research ptoject on digital geopolitical rivalries in Africa funded by CIGI will be extended for another 2 years🎉

Led by our non-resident scholar Folashade Soule, we hosted a private workshop, “Maximizing the Benefits of the Renewed Global Interest in Africa’s Strategic Minerals,” with government officials and key stakeholders.