ACSUS Newsletter | July 2026
We are pleased to share the July 2026 edition of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) Newsletter, highlighting the Centre's recent programmes, research, partnerships, and engagements. This edition features African Agency in a Shifting Global Order:
African Stakeholders Convene to Advance Africa’s Agency in a Changing Global Order
By IJR Johannesburg, 2–3 July 2026 – African policymakers, scholars, civil society representatives and international affairs experts gathered at the University of the Witwatersrand for a roundtable discussion on “African Agency in a Shifting Global Order: African Priorities on the Reform of
Extra-Constitutional Changes of Government in Africa: The Dilemmas of Mischaracterised Political Convulsions
Image:The Youth Cafe Abstract This paper examines unconstitutional and extra-constitutional changes of government in Africa as legal, political, and geopolitical phenomena that are frequently mischaracterised when analysed solely through domestic constitutional doctrine or conventional coup typologies. It argues that contemporary political convulsions