The African Geopolitical ATLAS 2025: Conflicting Information, Conflicted Realities

ISBN: 979-8-218-64378-2
By: Biao, Claude

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this edition of its ATLAS, Stake experts aims to examine these questions from a critical, post-colonialist and constructivist theoretical standpoint. It challenges the dominant assumptions on information, such as the central role of the internet as a “neutral” tool for information dissemination or realist theoretical perception as sole players or power brokers in the information space. Instead, using specific perspectives and case studies from African scholars and practitioners, this volume points out a conflictual intersection of subjectivities in the information space, whereby information—and, therefore, perceived realities—is constructed through the intertwining of power dynamics, colonial legacies in framing African state actors, and struggles for legitimacy impose one’s subjective “truth” over others. Hence, although this volume admits some structural representation surrounding key concepts such as access, reach, and dissemination of information, it does so from the standpoint of seeing them as necessary fuels and tools that conflictual intersection of subjectivities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Claude Biao

Stake experts is a research consultancy firm that helps organizations to more serenely research and address conflict and security risks in the African context. We specialize in developing and implementing early warning systems, conducting in-depth field research, and translating complex data into actionable insights for our partners. Our expertise facilitates improved conflict-sensitive and research-driven programming in volatile regions in the Sahel and West Africa.