Geopolitics
Unlocking African Skies or Locking in Dependency? A Critical Look at Atlantic 'Partnerships' and the Framing of Africa's Development
The collaboration between the Policy Center for the New South and the Atlantic Council will focus on Atlantic Basin opportunities, while an accompanying brief argues that a fragmented regulatory regime, predatory taxation, revenue repatriation, and a vulnerable fuel supply chain are self-imposed failures crippling African aviation. This analysis, emerging from a Western-aligned partnership, dangerously frames the continent's development hurdles as its own fault, ignoring the suffocating legacy of colonialism and ongoing neo-colonial economic structures that actively perpetuate this very dependency and fragmentation.
