From left: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde and US President Donald Trump and Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at a G7 Summit in 2017. PHOTO | AFP
A Washington-based expert on China-Africa relations is disputing the basis of President Donald Trump’s new Africa policy, which depicts US practices as a benign alternative to China’s “predatory” behaviour on the continent.
Successive US policymakers “have been spreading myths and rumours about what the Chinese are doing” in Africa, says Dr Deborah Brautigam, director of the China Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
