Geopolitics in Contemporary Africa: African Wealth still targeted by the West.

Abstract

The geopolitics of contemporary Africa lead us first to consider ancient Africa and evaluate the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and the post-colonial era. the geolocation of Africa has not changed, but its geopolitical and geostrategic behaviour evolve from period to period. The African continent has always been in the sights of the colonizer who was inspired by the golden rules of "divide to better rule" and exploit the African continent and his inhabitants then considered savage. The African continent has been humiliated and despoiled by Westerners seeking to enrich themselves to the detriment of the African peoples. In order to firmly establish their influences and not to fight on the African soil, they gathered in the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to define how to divide Africa into separate parts. Thus, 14 countries were present at this Conference and made resolutions to which the Kings and Chiefs of the African people were not associated. The Euro-African relationship was never balanced because some considered themselves masters while others were servants in their own countries. At present the African continent remains the target of foreign hidden hands or neocolonialists who do not care about the inhabitants whose fate is severe poverty, malnutrition, diseases, lack of safe drinking water, etc. due to unfair geopolitics both internal and external, Africa has been on the dinner table for too long and Europeans have been at the same table to enjoy her wealth that they do not even share with most Africans.