Africa: USA-Africa - No Policy? Bad Policy? or Both?

"Africa is terra incognita for the Trump Administration: a continent it cares little - and understands even less - about. With no dyed-in-the-wool Trumpian Africa hands available, the administration appears ready to cede Africa policy making to career civil servants and a few mainstream Republican appointees." - Matthew T. Page

The headline to Page's article in Quartz Africa states that "Donald Trump could be getting his US-Africa policy right by simply not having one." His view is actually more nuanced, in judging that no policy would likely be only "less bad" than explicitly "bad policy" that might result from greater White House interest in Africa.

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