Agenda 2063 is faltering as military coups, insurgencies, and conflicts ravage the continent
Africa is a chronic battle zone. Across the Continent, the panorama is riddled by gunfire, the political topography defaced by instability, insurgency, and unconstitutional and military power seizures.
The African Union’s flagship initiative, “Silencing the Guns” – once praised as a powerful continental covenant to build a peaceful, sovereign Africa by 2030– now appears to have lost all its momentum.
Current-day Africa has yet to be liberated from the architecture of colonial violence. The might of imperial economic and political power remains firmly in place, as do exploitative, extractive, and exclusionary economic ecologies. Coups and insurgencies arise from the deep vacuum left by incomplete post-colonial transitions and abysmal post-independence African governance. Insurgency has increased dramatically.
Dangerously, coups,…
