Africa already has AU; it need not choose between Bretton and Brics

The days of socialism versus capitalism are over. Now, it's a race between capitalism and capitalism, a naked struggle for resources and markets.

Photo credit: Illustration | Joseph Nyagah | NMG

It seems we are back to the cold war days. But this time it is not blatantly over the ideology politics that deployed thousands of spies working for either the US-led Western bloc and those for the Soviet-led Eastern bloc to hunt each other down in virtually all the cities of the world.

The imposition and support of the most obnoxious, bloodthirsty and corrupt dictators on African nations also characterised that era.