Why Europe is losing Africa to Moscow and Beijing 

Europe is retreating from Africa in what seems likely to be the greatest shift of all in the 21st century’s new era of tectonic geopolitical change. It has been 500 years since Henry the Navigator’s explorers set up Portuguese trading posts that eventually led to European colonialism, turning Africa into a non-man’s land to be exploited and fought over strictly by Europeans. It appears the situation has changed; Europe is on the way out. As warned 18 months ago, “little by little, we are losing Africa.”