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Competition for African assets
Competition between powers for African assets requires organisations to understand the interests at play in order to defend their own.
These three shifts require African businesses and institutions to better understand their environment, make well-informed decisions and take ownership of their narrative. ARMD exists to support them through this change.
Competition between powers for African assets requires organisations to understand the interests at play in order to defend their own.
But scattered data and opaque interests make this harder to understand, making verified information essential to decision-making.
All the more so as African aspirations to control their economies and narratives require businesses to demonstrate their contribution in order to earn their trust.
Giving African companies and institutions the means to understand
the power dynamics that affect them, secure their decisions and shape their own narrative.
The name ARMD echoes this call by Cheikh Anta Diop, delivered at the Niamey conference in Niger in 1984:
“Young Africans: educate yourselves, arm yourselves with science to the teeth, and reclaim your cultural heritage.”
We make this a working principle: bringing knowledge and method to the service of independent decision-making for African organisations.
This ambition requires a disciplined approach, from gathering information through to action.
Verify sources and cross-check information to give every analysis a solid foundation.
Put information in context to illuminate power dynamics and their consequences.
Protect the confidentiality of engagements, conversations and the people who trust us, at every stage.
Detect weak signals and less visible dynamics to anticipate what could change a situation.
Turn this understanding into swift, precise responses guided by sound judgement.