While this sounds pleasant, 50 years plus of piss poor leadership means that Africa has to choose between China, US, Europe or a mix of all 3.
Your “sovereignty and autonomy” is built on the back of decades of hard investments that our leaders did not make. Aka it does not exist.
Let me use internet for example. The bulk of Africa’s internet runs on infra owned by Google, Meta, Huawei.
The largest African player Liquid Intelligent Tech is funded by a raft of Western development finance institutions, Google snd Nvidia.
I say this not to discourage us from pursuing autonomy but to encourage us to be clear eyed and honest about where we are.
They’re not going anywhere.