Description
‘Global Order’ provided a single, solitary opportunity for the inception of African statehood in the middle of the twentieth century. Through the efforts of liberation movements, and the consolidation of the principle of self-determination, former dependent territories became independent states. However, there is a growing literature on the missed opportunities of decolonization (Grovogui, Othman). Drawing upon the work of Adom Getachew (2019) who sees the inception of the current global order and its dislocations – at base - in the waning of anticolonial nationalism, this paper examines African visions of global order from the 1990s onward in order to track changes in these conceptions since the Cold War, and examine their impact on the establishment of pan-African institutions such as the AU and on pan-African identity in the 2000s. This study links the local and the global, as these institutions and identities are then placed within the context of fading US commitment to multilateralism and the current global impasse.
