Why Africa must reinvent itself to survive the multipolar world
As global power shifts from a US-led order to a multipolar world, Africa faces a stark choice: remain a passive player in systems designed elsewhere—or reinvent itself as an active architect of its future.
Since gaining independence, African nations have been operating within a global system that they did not help design, and which often undermines their autonomy and development. This is why they continue to grapple with internal governance challenges, corruption and conflict.
The post-Second World War liberal international order, based on the principles of market capitalism, secular individualism and democracy, was presented to the continent not as an optional framework, but as the only path to legitimacy and development.
