The 20th G20 summit held in South Africa in November 2025 was the most geopolitically tense since the organisation was established in 1999. The tensions emerged from the spectacular ideological, political, diplomatic, and economic fallout between the United States and the rest of the G20 member states. President Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy instituted upon his inauguration in January last year as the 47th president of the US clashed with South Africa’s and Africa’s inaugural G20 summit. The vociferous bickering over the G20 as a multilateral platform recalls the Italian Marxian philosopher Antonio Gramsci’s dictum: “The old world is…
Bob Wekesa
Bob Wekesa
Bob Wekesa is deputy director and research and communications coordinator at the African Centre for the Study of the United States, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nairobi and Master’s and doctoral degrees from the Communication University of China, Beijing. His area of teaching, research and public engagement is the intersection of journalism, media, and communications on the one hand and geopolitics, diplomacy and foreign policy on the other.
