This issue of the Journal of African Foreign Affairs has a variety of topics that can be classified in four categories: direct relationships with great powers such as France and China, the impact of international events on Africa such as the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war, international organizations and the relationships of a liberation movement such as the Southern African National Liberation Movements with the United Nations, and intra-African affairs. The range of topics reflects the increasing complexity of the environment in which evolve African affairs. Within a generation Germany might become the most important military power in the European Union. Will Europe experience a period of deindustrialization of which the United States will be the principal beneficiary? Will a Cold War materialize between China and the United States, much more complex than the previous one, and with a racial overtone? What will be the consequences of such an environment for Africa? And what are the challenges and opportunities for the continent? The debate about unipolarity and multipolarity is a false dilemma. While Europe lives in a more unipolar world with the United States at the center, the rest has a multipolar tendency. As the articles in this issue collectively show, Africa cannot retreat in a passive nonalignment. It should engage, on the contrary, in an initiative-taking multi-alignment.