Africa

In human history there are transmissions from generation to generation: cultivated lands, modern languages, standing architectures, accumulated knowledge, stone-built institutions. Even devastating wars left behind a physically intact world, quick to regenerate. What the baby boomer generation is about to bequeath is another nature — and another gravity: an unprecedented global liability, fractured ecosystems, a destabilized climate, dilapidated resources, and a bill that succeeding generations will pay without ever having signed a cheque.

State-investor arbitration in Africa — BAOBIZZ Back to Blog BAOBIZZ · An African Perspective on Global Issues BAOBIZZ BAOBIZZ The Blog That Talks About Africa About · Contents · Africa · Podcasts · Finance & Law Tools · Africa The investor-state arbitration in Africa: understanding the mechanisms of systemic legal risk 22 March 2026 ... Read more

Some voices do not only sing: they accuse, question, hurt and console in the same breath. Nina Simone's voice belongs to this rare category. Grave, vibrant, almost telluric, it seems to arise from the depths of history to remind that art can be both pure beauty and instrument of combat.

In contemporary conflicts, war is no longer confined to the battlefields. It is also played in the minds. Armed forces are competing on the ground, but governments, intelligence services and communications equipment are competing in another equally strategic area: information.

Western powers, particularly the United States, are willing to present themselves as the guardians of democracy, human rights and international order. They denounce authoritarian regimes, stigmatize massive violations of freedoms and brandish international law as a moral compass of the international community. Yet when we observe the long history of international relations ... Read more

When aid, donation and infrastructure become the vectors for organised underdevelopment The semantic trap of cooperation The word cooperation has an almost indisputable positive moral burden. He refers to mutual aid, solidarity, sharing of interests and the reassuring idea of common progress. Applied to Africa, it has been imposed since independence as a discursive pillar of development ... Read more

Democracy, victim of slow and administered death Contemporary democracies no longer collapse as in the past. They do not necessarily fall under the blows of an insidious general, nor on the brutal night of a military coup. They gradually weaken, by wear and tear, by slipping, by diverting their own mechanisms. They continue to organize elections, to make ... Read more

For many financial firms and directorates, the closing of accounts remains an intense moment when balance sheets, tax deadlines, last-minute arbitrations and high time pressure accumulate. However, beyond the regulatory production of the financial statements, the end of the financial year offers a unique opportunity: to operate a structured financial landing, allowing to anticipate the results, to secure ... Read more

The argument that « power drives mad and absolute power drives absolutely mad » is often mobilized as a moral formula, almost lazy, to disqualify leaders who deviate from their promises or harden their governance once installed. Yet behind this sentence is a mechanism that is otherwise more complex, deeper, and above all more... Read more

As international relations move dangerously towards an era dominated by the law of the strongest, Africa finds itself at the heart of a new world order governed by strategic predation. Faced with the collapse of the diplomatic principles inherited from the post-war period, the rich but vulnerable continent became the privileged target of a ruthless struggle to influence between the ... Read more