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This study examines the objectives and motivations of three different episodes of great power rivalry in Africa. The second half of the 19th century witnessed a competition between European powers in the brutal partition of Africa by acquiring colonial territories, called the “scramble for Africa”. During the Cold War, the continent became one of the battlefields of the global East-West confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The current great power rivalry in Africa is now taking place between China and the US. Since the 2000s, China has had extensive economic investments, intense educational, cultural and political interactions, and growing military ties in Africa that threatens the US global hegemony. Analyzing these three eras of great power rivalry in Africa, the study reveals the different underlying dynamics and features of each era, including the different strategies that great powers adopted to achieve their objectives within each era.

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