The much heralded U.S.-Africa Summit held in Washington DC on December 13-15, 2022 and what is left is a scrutiny of the outcome. In the last two decades, Africa has been the centre of attraction of the great powers as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries...
The much heralded U.S.-Africa Summit held in Washington DC on December 13-15, 2022 and what is left is a scrutiny of the outcome. In the last two decades, Africa has been the centre of attraction of the great powers as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries up to the period of decolonisation in the late 1950s. There was the scramble for human beings as chattels.
This is perhaps the latent function, in other words, the ulterior motive of the new scramble for Africa by the great powers, namely, Britain, China, Indian, Japan, Russia, Turkey and United States. In the thinking of the Americans, “Africa is a major geopolitical force. It’s one that has shaped our past, it’s shaping our present, and it will shape our future.” It seems an inadvertent admission of the role the continent has played as beast of burden for the rest of humanity.
On the whole, the summit was a deepening of neo-colonial relations. Some of the bilateral agreements that were endorsed by Africa leaders on the platform of the U.S.-Africa Business Forum left much to be desired. There was no common Africa position in ways that such meeting ought to be attended by a delegate of African leaders to be led by the AU chairman.
It is to be noted that part of the latent function of the summit is geopolitics, in other words, who controls the continent? The inroad of China into the continent has made the West ill at ease. The Chinese inaugurated the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2000. After much propaganda on why Africa should be wary of china, the U.S. made a bid in 2014 to inaugurate the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
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