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AfCFTA: The treaty without a people 1280 720 Aether Strategies

AfCFTA: The treaty without a people

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was launched in January 2021 for trade (although the treaty entered into force on May 30, 2019). It covers 54 countries, 1.4 billion…

The New Scramble: : How Trade Deals and AI Are Redrawing Africa’s Future 1184 864 Aether Strategies

The New Scramble: : How Trade Deals and AI Are Redrawing Africa’s Future

By Kambale Musavuli A new pattern is reshaping global digital politics, and African nations must pay attention. This pattern is taking shape not through military force or overt political pressure,…

Making Better Decisions with Awareness, Consequence, and Collective Intelligence 1024 683 Aether Strategies

Making Better Decisions with Awareness, Consequence, and Collective Intelligence

The challenges facing most African countries are not only multiple but equally crucial: the appetite of major powers and multinationals for strategic raw materials on African soil, the challenges of…

Persona Non Grata in Burkina Faso: The case for the UN strategic communication 649 425 Aether Strategies

Persona Non Grata in Burkina Faso: The case for the UN strategic communication

On August 18, 2025, the government of Burkina Faso declared the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System, Ms. Carol Flore-SMERECZNIAK, persona non grata. The reason: a report on ‘Children…

Microsoft, Nayara and the lessons of digital sovereignty for Africa 1080 769 Aether Strategies

Microsoft, Nayara and the lessons of digital sovereignty for Africa

Imagine that, overnight, your essential digital tools (messaging, software, data storage) stop working, at the behest of a foreign state. This is a scenario we must already find possible solutions…

Shifting from spectator to scenarist of our own digital future 1777 1000 Aether Strategies

Shifting from spectator to scenarist of our own digital future

Watch children discover a sophisticated toy. They will marvel at the effects and imitate the gestures shown to them. But, they will remain completely unaware of the mechanisms that animate…

AI in Africa: Regulate to rule, not to suffer digital servitude 1920 1279 Aether Strategies

AI in Africa: Regulate to rule, not to suffer digital servitude

The call by the Pan-African Parliament for ethical governance of artificial intelligence (AI) is far more than a mere technical issue ; it is a historic crossroads for Africa. For…

Leadership Lessons from the “Great Debaters” 1920 1080 Aether Strategies

Leadership Lessons from the “Great Debaters”

How speech, when mastered, structured, and courageous, becomes a tool for mental decolonization and the achievement of dignity. The film “The Great Debaters” by and starring Denzel Washington, although set…

Healing and Reparations towards Socio-Economic Justice for Africans and People of African Descent 1920 2560 Aether Strategies

Healing and Reparations towards Socio-Economic Justice for Africans and People of African Descent

Kambale Musavuli’s statement at the United Nations’ Africa Dialogue Series 2025, on 21 May 2025, themed “Healing and Reparations for Socio-Economic Justice”. Statement-by-Mr.-Kambale-Musavuli-for-the-Africa-Dialogue-Series-2025_May21_english-1

Communication: the Art of Managing and anticipating Consequences 2000 1331 Aether Strategies

Communication: the Art of Managing and anticipating Consequences

On September 30, 2021, seven UN agency officials in Ethiopia were declared persona non grata with the obligation to leave the national territory within 72 hours. On December 23, 2022,…

DR Congo – USA: When, why and Who to negotiate with? 600 350 Aether Strategies

DR Congo – USA: When, why and Who to negotiate with?

Cornered militarily, weakened politically and limited strategically, the Democratic Republic of Congo seems determined to solicit the United States. Raw materials in exchange for military support. This is what the…

AI, digital colonialism & social mobilization in Africa 1260 840 Aether Strategies

AI, digital colonialism & social mobilization in Africa

Mophat Okinyi, a former content moderator, actively participated in training ChatGPT by tagging toxic content for an OpenAI subcontractor, Sama. Because he experienced the harsh working conditions and low wages…

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