Globalisation now comes wearing Ankara, Kitenge; has dreadlocks
John Nkengasong, Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa CDC sourced and distributed and worked to get vaccines into African arms. PHOTO | FILE | AFP
With Donald Trump’s “America First”, Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic and now the fall-out from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, talk of “deglobalisation” has been getting louder and louder.
Deglobalisation paints the world as getting less connected; countries more tribal; hostility to open borders; less regional cooperation; and the decline of global commerce.
