The New Scramble for Africa

Editorial Board

The Economist

March 9, 2019

Pg. 9

Peyton Jackson

Mr. O’Grady

Contemporary World Issues

April 9, 2019
 A New Era of Africa

It is amazing to notice that Africa can progress in a significant way. I thought it was

interesting to know that Africa has had multiple scrambles ever since European imperialism,

because I’ve never really noticed. The fact that Africa may have a larger population by 2025

surprised me the most, but I can see why, especially after reading the article about China’s one

child policy. That policy will definitely distort their population causing a great decrease. As of

now Africa is able to seize economic opportunity and I think that they could definitely benefit as

long as they are wise in their decisions. After seeing how many embassies Turkey opened and

India opened that still does not compete with Africa. What is crazy is that it only took 6 years for

Africa to open 320 embassies and India lacked with 18 and Turkey with 26. However as Africa

improves I think it is irritating that there are stereotypes of Africa still being colonial because

Africa has evolved since the imperialism times.

I completely agree with Africa’s idea to maintain a transparent government. Without one

the people would not benefit, and the only ones benefitting would be the government and rich

people. By Africa showing unity within their government shows how new opportunity can grow

for everyone on the continent. The idea of unity is something that all countries need to find, and

togetherness is something that even our own government needs to maintain. As the nation grows

they no longer have to choose sides. Africa’s power increased which makes bargains easier for

them. It is good to see improvement from Africa because that could later benefit other countries,

especially since “2006 Africa’s three biggest trading partners were America, China and France,

in that order.” With Africa’s educational improvement and political competitiveness, the

continent can definitely become stronger, further developing more competition between other

countries. As long as Africa continues to progress their success could grow as well.