US-Africa relations under Biden: a mismatch between talk and action

By Christopher Isike, Director, African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria
Samuel Oyewole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

In his first year in office, US president Joe Biden committed to resetting US-Africa relations based on a doctrine of equal partnership.

He sent his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria. The visit was used to outline the administration’s policy outlook towards Africa. It laid the ground for the official US-Africa…

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