Africa Interest (AI) is dedicated to building a bridge between ordinary citizens, academics, policymakers, and practitioners. We focus in particular on encouraging ordinary citizens to share their thoughts on African politics in accessible formats, encouraging engagement and wide-ranging debate.
Our hope is that the website will provide impartial and constructive debate on African issues, and enable those with contributions in, and on, the continent to share ideas and information. We are positive about the prospects for constructive discussions and their role in shaping events in the continent. We, therefore, believe that more time, resources, and energy should be put into understanding the complexities of politics in Africa’s local, national, regional, and global contexts. This website is a small but significant contribution to this end.
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- Our experts examine only what’s most important in global affairs, and we tell you why.
- We don’t just report the events, we analyze them, so you can find the signal in the noise.
- We cover the entire Africa, including the key countries and regions everyone else is ignoring.
- We help you understand how individual developments fit into larger African, and global trends.
- We curate information, delivering to you only what’s important, so you get superior insight in less time.
Our Mission
Africa Interets publishes in-depth news and expert analysis on African affairs to help our readers identify and make sense of the events and trends shaping our continent. Guided by a commitment to integrity, quality, and intellectual honesty, we serve as a forum for creative ideas about how to tackle Africa’s most important challenges.
Our Approach
AI seeks to strike a balance between the two dominant schools of international relations, realism and liberal internationalism, combining an effort to see the world as it is with a preference for diplomacy and multilateralism in support of rules- and norms-based global order.
We pay particular attention to important but undercovered stories as well as underexamined aspects of the news making headlines, and cover Africa’ often-ignored corners independently of whether and how they affect Africa’s interests.
Our Independence
So, far AI is funded almost exclusively by Futurical (@futurical) on X.com. But the plan is that it will eventually be funded by its general readership with an interest in African affairs—through individual subscription fees.
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