World Orders and Africa Security in the Post-Cold War Era

A Theoretical Review

Abstract

The globe is always dominated by a given order at one point in history or the other. Often regarded as world order: a very constant implication of world order has been its impact on the affairs of nations. This impact has largely been felt in Africa in so many ways. A major area of concern for Africa amidst the world order is the security sector. Against this backdrop, the paper seeks to theoretically reviewed the impacts of World orders on African security. It focused on ascertaining how the Africa security network, structure and task changed in the post-cold war era. To achieve this, the paper adopted ex post facto design. It explored archival and historical evidence on world order and challenges of Africa Security. The study was qualitative utilizing vital and related secondary materials to generate data for analysis. Thus, it used the combined approaches of realism and Marxism as its theoretical framework. The paper concluded that the security challenges confronting Africa in the post-cold war era were direct offshoots of various Europe’s invented and propagated world orders. Thus, the security challenges staring Africa in the face, since 1990 include war/conflict, resource control crisis, identity politics, Great power, cold war politics, proxy conflict wars and globalization attack on sovereignty of African states amongst others.