Africa: The Beijing of It All - Africa's Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels

[African Arguments] In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa's development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this Western-facing architecture took the form of policy conditionality, governance agendas and institutional reform attached to rotating credit agreements. This approach rested, at least in part, on a simple reality: countries in the Global South had limited alternatives for accessing large-scale development financing.