When I first joined the WPR editorial team and took over Africa Watch, I wrote an inaugural edition introducing myself and my guiding principles, as well as the trends, topics and developments you could expect to see me cover in the newsletter as well as in my other writings for WPR.
It’s now been six months since I began writing these newsletters, an experience that has been as remarkable as it has been exciting. And while the newsletter’s format has since evolved, I would like to believe that the orientation I set out in that edition has largely remained intact.
During that period, I’ve covered major news stories, including the largest social unrest in South Africa since the end of apartheid; a presidential election in Zambia; military coups in Guinea and Sudan; vaccine nationalism and its impact on Africa; the globalized web of corruption in Zimbabwe; Africa’s climate transition; and the future of the continent’s international relations with powers including the United States, China and France.