New African (UK)

1 month ago | newafricanmagazine.com | Hichem Ben Yaïche

Thierry de Montbrial is a French academic and geopolitical scientist. He is the founding president of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), a think tank he established in 1979. He is also a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He has published L’Ère des affrontements: les grands tournants géopolitiques (The Age of Confrontation: Major Geopolitical Turning Points) with Dunod. He analyses the state of the world in the Trump era.

2 months ago | newafricanmagazine.com | Hichem Ben Yaïche

A protean personality, Mohamed Aziza, writer, poet and man of action, author of some twenty books, is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Med 21 Programme. You’ve just finished writing your memoirs, retracing your long and eclectic career. How did you go about capturing the experience of a lifetime? I hesitated for a long time before embarking on the perilous exercise of writing a memoir.

2 months ago | newafricanmagazine.com | Hichem Ben Yaïche

Dominique Barjot, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences de l’Outre-Mer, deciphers his institution for us and shares his thoughts on North-South relations. Is it a challenge for you to take charge of the Académie des Sciences de l’Outre-Mer, founded in 1922, an institution that embodies the ‘temple’ of knowledge (Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania)? Yes! This Academy was born just after the First World War with the aim of taking an interest in the entire French colonial empire.

Jan 8, 2025 | newafricanmagazine.com | Anver Versi

Once again, as a crisis-scarred 2024 gives way to an as-yet pristine 2025, it gives us great pleasure to introduce you to 100 African individuals who we believe have made a substantial difference to the continent – and in many cases, to the world over the year. “The real value of this annual feature in New African,” one of our esteemed readers and collaborators told us, “is that it is a like a large family get-together.

Dec 15, 2024 | newafricanmagazine.com | Hichem Ben Yaïche

In his book  Se nourrir, le défi de l’Afrique, Pierre Jacquemot deciphers the continent’s inertia in terms of agriculture, as well as its assets, and combats preconceived ideas. Why publish such a book on the question of food, an issue addressed by many African academics and institutions? The idea came from the realisation that Africa will have to feed a population of two and a half billion over the next few decades.