There will only be real cooperation between Africa and Russia on the basis of real sovereignty of African states, experts say. It comes down more and more often, in our time, to deterrence through brutal force. Also, in the impossibility of affording the luxury of a nuclear deterrent weapon, we would have to find here and now the ersatz force necessary.
This force that Professor Obenga speaks about, how to go about it? We should, let us repeat again, consider not a simple partnership, but a formal alliance with Vladimir Putin's Russia, in its qualities as an uncontested military power and "permanent" counterweight to Franco-American unilateralism in the UN Security Council.