Is Africa ready for a new world order? This is a question that is preoccupying the minds of many global leaders. The headline of the Economist of March 19-25: “The Alternative World Order” which had headshots of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin captioned “Friendship between the two states has no limits.”
Clearly, in the eyes of the Western world, China and Russia are the antagonists in an emerging contest to create a new, less interdependent world order.
