Something happened recently at the resort city of Davos in Switzerland, that has a population of almost 11,000, to destabilise the sense of togetherness and leadership pecking order in the Conceptual West. Davos has over the years gained prominence as the place where global economic power brokers meet annually with their political counterparts to plot the fate of the rest of the world.
They occasionally invite leaders from African countries mostly to observe the global mighty deliberate. During the 2026 meeting, however, there was a ‘rupture’ of the leadership type in which Mark Carney of the middle power, Canada, displaced Donald Trump of the United States as leader of the Conceptual West.