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Here you go - from the horse's mouth:



and its political bosses are:

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That should cheer you...

I've briefly mentioned Turse - without going into his veracity. Here's Nick -
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After that, the matter ended up in the White House, where the President declined to support any other sanctions against SA.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963
Volume XXI, Africa,...

to December 1961; and a meeting with Brits, in which the US position (different from the UK's) was presented by Soapy Williams (G. Mennen Williams, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs 1961-1966)....

but, in the last few days I've read or watched a half-dozen or so African intellectuals whose dislike of the USG was far deeper and stronger than anything you have posted here. The two issues were...

The three-paragraph quote below is from materials re: Portugal and its colonies.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XIII, Western Europe and Canada - Portugal

re: George...

KJ:



It's the same as the Bush-Cheney message: If you're not for us, you're against us. It also is the same message which underlies the Beltway Blame Game.

All of these have a number of...

As to both points 1 & 2, neither of us can have it both ways - that is, to argue on one hand that the US has been indifferent to Africa; and then on the other hand to argue that it has been actively...

KJ,

Let's start on what seems to be a point of agreement - the effects of the "Scramble for Africa" by the European Powers, brought to fruition by the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Pursuant to...

to what are difficult, futuristic questions. Two of your points stood out to me.

The first deals with co-operating ethnic groups:



This is also the point made by some (e.g., John Thornton)...

I was doing some reading on a different African topic and I came upon the following map (The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades; map is at p.17):

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It shows the major ethnicities...

China's trade with the World has climbed during 2001-2011 (Table A14 Merchandise trade by region and selected economies, 2001-2011 — China):

2001: Exp 266.1, Imp 243.6
2011: Exp 1898.4, Imp...

I don't know (though I expect they know the difference between Africans and African-Americans) - you'd have to ask the White House and 43 African-American House members (which no longer include Allen...

Let's take some more figures; this time from the WTO, which tracks exports to and imports from Africa as an entire continent (and other regions) here:



The relative economic significance of...

though, of course, you come with a Nigerian slant; I come with an American slant; and our rhetoric may sometimes clash (or at least grate) for that reason.

IMO (to the end of post):...

Sub-Saharan Africa has very little economic significance or influence in the US; its two way trade in goods and services is ~1.5% of the US totals. So, where Africa stands is, as you say, established...

of Sub-Saharan Africa to the US - based on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) data.

Here are the big three.

Canada:



China:

My complaint did not rest upon "The Ugly American", Col. Hillanddale (Lansdale), FAOs (like Tom Odom), or even with "The Quiet American" of Graham Greene.

Nope, it rested upon straight-up DoS...

Besides full agreement with what you say above, your cite to "The Ugly American" brings back memories of reading it as a serial, starting in the Saturday Evening Post, October 4, 1958. Of course,...