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The United Kingdom has left the European Union as part of a momentous effort to redefine the UK's role in the world - with tremendous consequences for its global partners, including many of the countries in Africa. How do African countries view their relationship with the UK? What will be the future of Africa-UK relations after Brexit?

Outlining plans for foreign policy and security in its annual , the United Kingdom has explicitly referenced strengthening its bilateral relations with key African countries, such as Nigeria. How will the UK and its African partners together address shared challenges ranging from peace and security, immigration, and the ongoing global health crisis and vaccine rollouts?

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Gilbert Khadiagala

鈥淧ost-Brexit鈥攁nd this is my second point鈥擨 argue that the constituencies鈥攖he coalitions within the United Kingdom鈥攖hat pushed for Brexit are precisely the constituencies that do not have a stake in Africa relations or in the rejuvenation of Africa-UK relations.鈥澛�

鈥淎frica is a very crowded area now, there are so many actors who are converging around Africa, and my skepticism of the UK beginning to reconstitute the commonwealth as an avenue of competition with these other powers stems from the fact that you have the Europeans, you have the Chinese, you have the U.S., this crowdedness therefore complicates the reconstitution of our commonwealth that is going to function with the same purpose as it was from the beginning.鈥�

鈥淚 think the UK has an opportunity to rebuild the commonwealth, but not in the image of a multilateral institution, but in the image of a more strategic partnership with some of its core partners.鈥澛�

Julia Gallagher

鈥淚ncreased focus on trade with particularly the big African players. So, the idea that the UK having left the European Union would be able to lean more imaginatively鈥攎ore creatively鈥攊nto bilateral trade relationships, particularly with Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the big economies.鈥澛�

鈥淭he third area is the Integrated Review [鈥 when it comes to Africa鈥擨 don鈥檛 know what to say really鈥攖here鈥檚 mention made of bilateral relationships and there are sort of a handful of African countries that are mentioned. There鈥檚 much quoted Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, and South Africa, but there鈥檚 very little follow through [鈥 In fact if you look at the way that the trade deals with some of these countries and some of the economic blocs in Africa have been negotiated, actually they鈥檙e pretty much reproductions鈥攐r slightly less good reproductions鈥攐f the old EU-based arrangements.鈥澛�

鈥淎frica, in association with all of this discussion about the legacies of colonialism and the race relations which it has produced in this country, has become I think more obviously political in Britain, and I wonder if it鈥檚 possible that this might help to enrich or to fill out the kind of image of Africa as a flat moral cause and have the potential to actually change the British myopic view of Africa.鈥澛�

Andrew E. Yaw Tchie

鈥淭here is also a lack of comprehensive assessment on security and military training provided, so there are no regulatory bodies that the U.K. reports back to.鈥澛�

鈥淚ndirectly, the UK is helping to support the erosion of some states and extension of grievances which are embedded in protracted conflicts, but also enables groups to flourish and capitalize on existing community grievances and weak governance structures.鈥澛�

鈥淭here needs to be more of a shift towards supporting institutional knowledge and knowledge hubs that retain expertise but also awareness of, for example I would argue, the rule of law, criminal justice, but also resolving existing and ongoing conflicts.鈥澛�