Sadly, while Western policymakers continue to demand that Africans conform to Western norms that are often not achievable where there is no electricity, sanitation, or functioning infrastructure, Russia views the continent much as the West did for centuries — as a source of wealth and an outlet for its power. The Chinese have over five millennia viewed themselves as “culturally superior,” suggesting that equal partnerships between Africans and the Chinese are doomed to failure.
A proper realignment of U.S. Africa policy, therefore, must focus on developing the full potential of Africa’s youth, who, as Ichikowitz points out, are no longer content to be bystanders in global discourse. They are, he says, “ready to rewrite the narrative, and they have every intention of wielding the pen themselves.”
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