Valdai Club

A stronger South Africa – Russia partnership will be realised not through mere rhetoric but through deliberate, strategic alignment founded on trust, shared values, and a mutual commitment to navigating the challenges and opportunities of a multipolar world.

Often Africa is portrayed in terms of how outsiders perceive the continent’s external relations. This has led to a misalignment in the perceptions that tend to define Africa’s engagements, which echo the global mainstream narrative regarding who the legitimate state actors are in African external affairs. The inside perspective on how African state and non-state actors with agency would themselves pursue global affairs is often muted or relegated to the periphery.