A former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Tibor Nagy, has called on President-elect, Donald Trump, to change the US-Africa policy.
Tibor Nagy decried that US-Africa policy had been megaphone and hypocritical rather than engaging on issues of common interest that benefit Africans, especially youths.
In his congratulatory message, on his X handle, on Wednesday, Nagy, also a former US Ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia, said he hoped Trump would do better.
“I have high hopes for the incoming Trump administration’s Africa policy. Hopefully, we’ll drop the megaphone and hypocritical lectures and engage on issues of real common interest that genuinely benefit Africans – especially the youth. And credits Somaliland for their progress!” Nagy wrote.
On his part, the President of the African School of Governance, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has called on Africans not to expect much for the continent from Trump’s presidency.
The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) advised African leaders to fix the continent’s problems, starting with governance, leadership and security.
In a statement on Wednesday, Professor Moghalu added that Trump had never had an interest in Africa.
“For those wondering what Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback means for Africa, the answer is: Not much! He has never shown much interest in Africa. Even more important, Africans should fix their own problems, starting with leadership, governance, security, democracy.
We should stop looking to external props. It was not the US President that intervened in Botswana to achieve the remarkable electoral outcome there, and the incumbent’s gracious concession. Trump will certainly matter for the Middle East, Ukraine, Europe more broadly, and China,” he wrote on his X handle.
