This issue of the African Journal of Foreign Affairs (JoAFA) is being published in a particularly turbulent geopolitical environment. Since the 2020s, the international order seems to be moving adrift: Brexit (2020); the United States’ (US) chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after the fall of Kaboul (2021); Russia’s war on Ukraine (2022); Gabon and Togo joining the Commonwealth (2022); surprise reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran (2023); annexation of Nagorno Karabakh by Azerbaijan (2023); return of Syria to the Arab League (2023); civil war in Sudan (2023); October 7, 2023 events in which Israeli civilians were killed and/or kidnapped by Hamas and other non-state armed groups, followed by a new Israeli-Palestinian war; a series of military coups d’etat in western Sahel; and US’ military gesticulations in the Middle East where local conflicts are merging into one regional war.