Modern Diplomacy has just published a handbook titled "Putin's African Dream and the New Dawn: Challenges and Emerging Opportunities" by Kester Kenn Klomegah, an independent research writer and a policy consultant in the Russian Federation and Eurasian Union. Modern Diplomacy is a platform that publishes "international issues that are often outside the boundaries of mainstream Western media and academia." Partner organizations include the Russian International Affairs Council.
The handbook looks at Russia-Africa relations mostly through the eyes of Russian officials, business persons, and academics and its release is timed to precede the Russia-Africa Summit at Sochi in October 2019. It is a helpful guide in explaining how Russia currently views Africa and what it hopes to achieve at Sochi and afterwards. Russia has not been particularly active in Africa since the end of the Cold War. It remains to be seen if its relationship with Africa will become a "new dawn."
