Africa: Trump Sees Africa for Markets, Plots to Checkmate China

27 August 2018

When Donald Trump won the US Presidency in November 2016, a commentator writing in Quartz Africa warned Africa would "fall off the map."

Before he hosted Nigerian and Kenyan leaders at the White House, Trump had been seen in the criticism of Barack Obama's spending on aid in Africa and his campaigns focused on "America first", and spending more on domestic programmes than international assistance.

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