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Nagy: Africa's future - and why it's important to us
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in a one-day symposium in Washington, D.C., on “The United States and Africa — Looking Toward the Next Decade,” sponsored by the Institute for Defense Analysis (ida.org). The day brought together some of our leading African experts — practitioners as well as academics — along with the current and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Unlike
many such events where any meaningful content evaporates by day’s end
as puffs of smoke, this one was full of hard facts and gave plenty of
ammunition to both sides of the Afro-pessimist vs. Afro-optimist debate.
The
one certainty is Africa will play a much more significant role in
global affairs going forward, and the U.S. will have to focus more
attention on a part of the world which played no role in U.S. foreign
policy until the 1950s, and since then has been our lowest international
priority. This is not a criticism, just fact.http://lubbockonline.com/editorial-columnists/2016-07-03/nagy-africas-future-and-why-its-important-us#.V3vxUY6XQkj
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