Ovigwe Eguegu: African Geopolitics in the New Cold War

Security analyst Ovigwe Eguegu gives us an overview of African geopolitics in the New Cold War and helps us make sense of U.S., European, Russian, and Chinese influence on the continent. He also looks at the African Union (AU), its 2063 agenda, and how Covid-19 is impacting Africa today. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rumble Geopolitics & Empire · Ovigwe Eguegu: African Geopolitics in the New Cold War #146 Transcript: [spoiler] Podcast: The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast is joined by Ovigwe Eguegu. He is an international security analyst based in Nigeria who specializes in security diplomacy, geopolitics, global system transformation, conflict, and peace. We'll be looking at Africa and geopolitics in the context of the New Cold War, including the numerous actors who are continuing to vie for influence, and which are not limited to the United States, the EU, Russia, China, Turkey, and Middle Eastern states. We'll also look at African debt relief and China decoupling. I would like to remind listeners to subscribe to all of our channels on social media, to share and like our material, and to leave us a podcast rating and review. Please do bookmark and subscribe to our new channels on BitChute and Brighteon on because as YouTube has officially become the new Mainstream Media, alternative viewpoints are summarily dismissed, deleted, and memory-holed as we've experienced. I would also urge listeners to subscribe to our free email list that includes our weekly interview and collection of news headlines, and you can leave us a donation via Bitcoin, PayPal, Patreon, and also now SubscribeStar. Just yesterday we reached the maximum user limit for our email list services free tier and so now we must pay a new costly annual fee, and so donations go to pay for these essential services Now on to our guest and African geopolitics. How are you doing these days Ovigwe, you're currently in Nigeria? Ovigwe Eguegu: Yes, yes I'm in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. I'm doing fine and you? Podcast: I'm doing well, that's good to hear. So I thought before we start that you would educate us a bit on how Africans today view the foreign influences vying for economic, cultural, and political control in Africa. You know, for many years it's been my dream to go visit Africa but now with the economic problems that we're facing, the historic economic problems, and the whole Covid situation and the difficulty of travel I don't know if that's going to become a reality. But whether we're talking about the Western powers, Russia, China, the Middle East, we all know the history of imperialism in Africa and so maybe if you can enlighten us a bit on what is the opinion or feeling of Africans today regarding what's going on. Ovigwe Eguegu: Yeah, it's been quite quiet you. I think Africa started making the news again for stuff other than poverty and humanitarian missions from around 2000. Because the 1990s were really like a lost decade or where what we had was quiet. I remember that New York Times article about the Forgotten Continent. There were so many negative headlines about the African story, but I think around 2000 was when we started getting some of our act together as a continent. First of all, because I think one of the good things we've done as a continent, was repurpose the OAU to get to the AU, the AU being quite committed to the new agenda 2063. And during all of this background what it has been doing with its international partners was sort of like created it simply for a new Africa, including when the Chinese started coming into Africa. I think one of the first countries they or the first country that they started making waves in was Ethiopia and then Angola. So with the coming of China and Chinese investments, spreading from Ethiopia to Angola,