The African Peace and Security Architecture is incapable of resolving crises as it is based on assumptions which are not only false in Africa, but false everywhere.
The CAR is an artificial creation with no great sense of national identity and a history of competition. There will be many challenges to overcome before the CAR sees peace.
Welz’s comprehensive study reveals that despite the ever-present ambition for an integrated Africa, the perspectives of African states remain divided on the utility of a unified continent.
The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of African unity brought the ideas of completing the unification of Africa back to the center of the agenda for the African Union.
Vast economic divergences and uneven development across the continent represent a major problem for African unity. Until this changes, the African Union is unlikely to reach its potential.
The APSA has managed to establish itself as the premier African organization. However, dispersed ownership, unfinished or vague security and policy doctrines and scarce resources will continue to hamper the AU from reaching its full potential.
The politics of foreign aid in Africa has taken twists and turns, with the current shift from the ‘West’ to the ‘East’. Individual African countries have found themselves prey to the conditionalities imposed by the western donor agencies. While these are meant to engender accountability and transparency, the opposite has prevailed.
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