Ghanas allgemeine Wahlen 2024 Kontext Themen

The document argues that Africa-EU and Africa-Germany relations are still defined by 'coloniality', manifesting as power imbalances that marginalise African agency. It critiques the EU's security-development nexus and the 'Samoa Agreement' for prioritising European interests, and examines German development aid through the GIZ as often intrusive or tokenistic. The author highlights the exploitation of raw materials and the use of intelligence services to acquire indigenous medicines as contemporary colonial practices. To decolonise, the paper recommends respecting African demands on trade and resource beneficiation, ending the 'Europeanisation' of security missions, and shifting from development aid to industrialisation projects.

• The relationship between the EU and the African Union is characterised by a power imbalance where the EU models the AU in its own image and uses economic advantages to secure political gains in security matters.
• EU foreign policy towards Africa is structured to maintain Africa's subaltern position through 'saviourism' and the marginalisation of African agency in summitry, where the EU typically decides the agenda and drafts agreements before African involvement.
• The EU's approach to raw materials, specifically through the Critical Raw Materials Act, is viewed as a means to undermine Africa's negotiating power and pit African states against other global suppliers like China and India.
• EU development projects in Mauritania, Mali, and South Sudan often exhibit colonial patterns by prioritising EU-defined targets over local needs and preferring European experts over qualified local counterparts.
• Germany's military and intelligence presence in Africa, including its role in the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA), is critiqued as a tool for gathering strategic information for political and economic gain rather than genuine security.
• There are allegations that German companies and intelligence agencies have engaged in the exploitation of indigenous medicines in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa through clandestine operations to secure patents.
• The G20 'Compact with Africa' is described as a self-serving mechanism that privileges a small number of economies and focuses on creating favourable tax regimes for investors rather than African industrialisation.
• Germany's support for the AU Border Programme is critiqued for reviving colonial legacies and targeting territories with oil, gas, and petroleum deposits to facilitate raw material access.
• German development cooperation in Namibia is marked by a lack of genuine reconciliation, evidenced by Germany's insistence on dictating how reparations for the 1904-1907 genocide are spent.
• The author argues that the EU and Germany have consistently avoided supporting African industrialisation, preferring piecemeal development aid that maintains African dependency on Europe.

APA

Gwatiwa, T. (2024). Ghanas allgemeine Wahlen 2024 Kontext Themen. Africa Policy Research Institute. https://afripoli.org/de/ghanas-allgemeine-wahlen-2024-kontext-themen-en

Chicago

Gwatiwa, Tshepo. Ghanas allgemeine Wahlen 2024 Kontext Themen. Africa Policy Research Institute, 2024. https://afripoli.org/de/ghanas-allgemeine-wahlen-2024-kontext-themen-en.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gwatiwa2024ghanas, author = {Gwatiwa, Tshepo}, title = {{Ghanas allgemeine Wahlen 2024 Kontext Themen}}, institution = {Africa Policy Research Institute}, year = {2024}, month = nov, url = {https://afripoli.org/de/ghanas-allgemeine-wahlen-2024-kontext-themen-en}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }