Just sharing - Africa in focus

[Emmanuel Udogu]

Revitalizing US-Africa Ties, Intra-African Trade, and More

Cary Fraser	4:56 PM (3 hours ago)
to me

View in browser August 31, 2022 Biden’s Africa strategy seeks to revitalize ties with the continent   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Africa this month—the third in under a year—is a demonstration of the Biden administration’s growing commitment to Africa. Witney Schneidman and Landry Signé examine the outcomes of the visit and the recently released U.S. strategy toward sub-Saharan Africa.   Read more Intra-African trade has been underestimated for years   Hardly a presentation is made on the topic of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) without starting with a lamentation about how intra-African trade is “abysmally low” compared to other continents. But this observation is simply not true, Andrew Mold explains in a recent paper.   Read more   Learn more about intra-African trade and regional economic communities on the Foresight Africa podcast. Bureaucratic commitment to local government service: Lessons from Zambia   What drives public sector employees in Zambia and how can local governments retain them? Danielle Resnick and Gilbert Siame share findings from their surveys of bureaucrats.   Read more

[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

The Biden administration got a wake-up

call given Africa’s response to the Ukraine-

Russia crisis. It  initially assumed that

Africa could be forced to toe the line by

sanctions and intimidation. That didn’t work.

Now the tone has changed towards 

cooperation and negotiation. Fine.

The arrogance of the first half of the year,

perhaps  pushed by the neocons in the administration, had to give way, in the

light of dismal failure. The administration realized,  too, that anti-French sentiment

 is on the rise, paving the way  for more pro- Russian inroads. Malian documentation

of direct  French support to the jihadists

has not helped. 

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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[ABOLAJI Oluwatobi Omitogun]

You should read my piece with Blinken 

 Inside Sec. Blinken High Stake Meeting With African Diaspora Youth On US-Africa Strategy

http://bit.ly/3etPsct 

[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

If possible, can you cut & paste the article for us. I couldn't get on

the platform.

Thank you.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department, Central Connecticut State University
www.africahistory.net

http://web.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html

Chief Editor- "Africa Update"

www.vimeo.com/gloriaemeagwali

Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries

2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies

 University of Texas at Austin

2019   Distinguished Africanist Award                   

New York African Studies Association

Founding Co -Chair. Sengbe Pieh AMISTAD Committee

Founding Director, African Studies, CCSU

 

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