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21 century Africa
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It’s a different world now!

From the comfort of a Westminster office and armed with the 'intellectualism' of a
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m'zuŋ u university education, it may well seem wrong to you. It isn't. The wrong is allowing
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the m'zuŋ u to determine what is right for African nations at this time in their evolution.
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Africa & the m'zuŋ u
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21st century will see the relationship between African nations and m'zuŋ u go through
significant changes
The rate of change will be determined by several factors

• Inevitable progress of individual African nations towards Economic Independence
• The gradual growing 'togetherness' of African nations that gives Africa a greater 'regional'
influence on the world stage
• The transformation of global superpower dominance into a mixture of competing global
regional powers

• The growing confidence amongst Africans that Africans will follow their own ways
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(including in willingness to defy openly m'zuŋ u 'powers')
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Economic Independence
A number of African countries are approaching the point where they feel they are strong

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enough economically to control their own affairs - regardless of m'zuŋ u views!. Some, like
Ethiopia, have always been strongly 'independent' minded.
The transformation from the USA's dominance of the global economy to their being

several competing regional 'powers' has served to increase the 'negotiating power' of
African nations. This effectively lowers the threshold for an African nation's sense of

'economic independence'.

The 2020 CV-19 pandemic has amply demonstrated the extent of current global
economic interdependence and can only encourage companies to move at least some of

their manufacture to selective African countries.

Low-income countries are from being masters of their own futures. In the short-term
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m'zuŋ u neo-colonialism will be able to 'pick off' vulnerable individual African countries.
This will not always be the case.
At first, it will be a few stronger African states and Africa as a whole that will require

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the m'zuŋ u to adjust their approach to Africa. But there will come the time of a tipping
point.