Transforming the Africa–Europe Relationship

This piece draws on a longer publication, “Walking Together Differently: Transforming the Africa–Europe Relationship, which explores in depth what it will take to shift how Africa and Europe work together.

Here, the focus is on one aspect of that broader reflection: the gap between the language of partnership and how the relationship is currently experienced in practice, and why addressing that gap matters for building more credible, reciprocal, and effective collaboration between the two continents.

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What Will It Take To Transform the Africa–Europe Relationship?

Grounded in two decades of facilitating multi-stakeholder engagement across Africa and Europe, Mahmood Sonday, Mille Bøjer, and Ellen Sow explore why the Africa–Europe partnership is important, what is holding it back and what it will take to transform it — offering practical insights for policymakers, practitioners, and leaders working at the Africa–Europe interface.

Part 2: How to work with high stakes low trust

This article explores how to work with high stakes low and trust.

How Do We Talk When the Stakes Are High and the Trust Is Low?

How Do We Talk When the Stakes Are High and the Trust Is Low?

Power, love and justice: an interview with Rebecca Freeth

This interview explores Rebecca Freeth's experiences, working in South Africa on issues of justice and, in particular, racial justice.

Power, love and justice

This article explores the element of justice in the power-love configuration and what this combination might mean for all of us who navigate social change.

World Cup 2010: Why We Must Not Forget What Just Happened

Like many others locally and abroad, I have been curious about how we as South Africans have changed as a result of our hosting of the recent World Cup football tournament. In case you missed it, the

How to develop the capacity for cross-sector collaboration

An analysis of the complexity of cross-sector social problems, particularly concerning the issue of orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa.