Africa's future is being built on steel, copper—and strategy. Africa's New Scramble reveals the high-stakes contest reshaping the continent: the U.S.-backed Lobito Corridor versus China's Belt and Road Initiative.
From the copper mines of Zambia and cobalt fields of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Angola's Atlantic ports, the world's major powers are racing to secure the minerals, infrastructure, and trade routes that will define the global economy of the twenty-first century.
But this is not simply a story of America versus China. It is a story of African agency.
Bosco Mutarambirwa examines how African governments are using superpower competition to negotiate better terms, reclaim control over natural resources, confront debt and corruption, expand regional trade, and turn corridors of extraction into engines of industrialization.
Blending geopolitics, economics, history, and on-the-ground infrastructure analysis, Africa's New Scramble asks the question that will shape the continent's next chapter:
Will Africa once again become the prize in a global scramble—or will it use the rivalry to become a power in its own right?
