Trade Not Aid

arack Obama’s election as the first black President of the United States was greeted with tremendous fervour and hope across the globe, especially within sub-Saharan Africa. Many Africans (and Africa observers) had believed that the biracial son of a Kenyan father, whose biography did not typify that of many of his predecessors, would approach US-Africa relations in much less paternalistic ways, and would regard the region as strategically important to US interests

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