Africa is still a puzzle in world politics: rising in significance in the world mostly for demographic and endowment reasons but how does the significance gets realised?
Well, the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) thinks it has a resource person who has been cracking his brains on the puzzle. It has subsequently scheduled him to take the podium at its ‘Foreign Policy Lecture’ series to crack the topic: “Africa’s rising importance in international politics: realising the continent’s great significance in international relations”
Come September 10th, 2025, the event will take place at NIIA’s Conference Chamber in Victoria Island where Ambassador Godknows Igali, a retired Nigerian career diplomat will deliver the lecture.
After the lecture, the continent must have got the key ideas on how to move from being a conundrum in world politics to a realised actor. At the moment, critics are arguing it is a conundrum in the sense that the continent is rich but the people are poor. Although rich in spirit, the majority are very poor in material terms and, as Nyerere said, nobody respects the poor and the beggarly.
