Assessing US-Africa Strategies:

Abstract

This study provides an account of the general US foreign policy, along with an outline of its overall strategy towards Africa; including its economic, humanistic and national security aspects. It also compares US-Africa relations under both the Obama and Trump Administrations in order to deduce whether the policy was affected by administrational change or continued to be the same. Furthermore, the study looks at internal developments as well as new emerging foreign powers in the studied period and examines how this affects US foreign policy in the region. This study finds that there is an observable pattern of crossadministration continuity concerning the United States’ foreign policy towards Africa.