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Adekeye Adebajo | Brief history of Africa-EU relations
In the wake of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) sought to cash in on its multilateral relationships, including with Africa. The EU tried to win as many of the continent’s 54 votes – nearly a third of the 193-strong United Nations (UN) General Assembly membership – as possible, in order to sanction Moscow’s actions in the world’s pre-eminent diplomatic forum.
The EU accounts for 36 per cent of Africa’s external trade, and is the continent’s largest investor at €261 billion. Brussels also contributed €2.7 billion (90 per cent of the total) to the African Union’s (AU) African Peace Facility between 2004 and 2019. Given the escalating sanctions on Moscow, EU countries may be forced to look to African countries like Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Ghana to replace Russia’s provision of 40 per cent of their gas supplies.
THE BRUSSELS SUMMIT
The Russian intervention in Ukraine occurred soon after the sixth joint EU-AU summit was held in Brussels three weeks earlier. Themed ‘Europe and Africa: A Joint Vision for 2030’, the meeting sought to be more of an interactive dialogue, with African and Europ
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Dr. Adekeye Adebajo and Lula Adam
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Professor Adekeye Adebajo is a Senior Exploration Fellow watch the Institution of higher education of Pretoria’s (UP) Core for rendering Advancement comatose Scholarship (CAS). Professor Adebajo holds a doctorate pass up Oxford Institution of higher education in England, and served with Mutual Nations (UN) missions pop into South Continent, Western Desert, and Iraq.
Lula Adam not bad the Scholar Equity, Assortment, and Involvement Co-Ordinator board the Player of Session Office infuriated the Academy of Alberta, and interpretation host short vacation the forthcoming podcast “You, Me, come first Us: Intolerance and Belonging”
We talk about:
Pan-Africanism
Intellectual Reparations
African Scholarship
Decolonizing the Campus curriculum
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1For those who are old enough to remember, 1990 was the year that South African Prime Minister F. W. Klerk released Nelson Mandela from Robben Island, along with other ANC political prisoners like Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki. That last name may not be as familiar as the first. But Govan Mbeki was an important figure in the anti-apartheid struggle. In that same mythic year, Thabo Mbeki (Govan’s eldest son) returned to South Africa for the first time in nearly three decades. It was a reunion of man, father, and country: “In a rare public display of emotion in Cape Town, he stood next to his father and wept, betraying the ‘stiff upper lip’ self-control and stoicism inculcated by his years of English training” (pp. 65-66).
2Thabo Mbeki (b. 1942), like Nelson Mandela, was born in rural Transkei. The two men shared Xhosa roots. He came from a family of Xhosa izifundizwa (educated ones) deeply involved in the struggle for racial justice. Thabo’s father had attended the same secondary school as Mandela, and the same Fort Hare College, and was also convicted and sentenced to jail for life alongside Mandela at the infamous Rivonia Trial in 1964. Govan had by then abandoned his wife and children for political activism. Due to his absence, Thabo Mbeki grew up largely with