What are US interests in Africa?

Obama sits alongside his step-grandmother, Mama Sarah (L) and half-sister Auma Obama (R), during a family gathering at a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, July 24, 2015. (AFP photo)

How genuine is the US in promoting growth in Africa? The US’s history of wrongdoings in Africa includes support for dictators who were on good terms with US, the plundering of African resources and the destruction of their agriculture.

The US has played a pivotal role in sabotaging the natural evolution of democratic African institutions if they did not suit the US agenda.

After World War II, Africa was seen both as a resource and a weapon in the Cold War against the USSR. Leaders like the Congo’s Lumumba were systematically sabotaged or assassinated because they exposed the nature of imperialism and its role in Africa.

Pan-Africanism, the idea of a united states of Africa, was attacked at its birth in the late 50 and early 60s. The early independence movements in Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and the Congo were all manipulated to create the leadership vacuum and rampant corruption characterizing so many African governments today.


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