How Africa can survive and prosper in a zero-sum world

Above, boxes of USAID-delivered drugs at Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Lodwar on April 1, 2025. (AFP/File Photo)

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Across Africa, foreign aid is disappearing, climate shocks are multiplying, and strategic competition has replaced economic cooperation as the organizing principle of international affairs. Many policymakers continue to debate these developments as though they belong to separate conversations. Reality suggests otherwise. Each reflects the same transformation: a unipolar order giving way to multipolarism, where power is measured by control over supply chains, critical minerals, industrial capacity, shipping routes, digital infrastructure, and financial systems.