AAS 3205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Congressional Research Service, John Kufuor, The Strongest

• School: Temple University
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AAS 3205
• Professor: Gerald Boodoo

Document Summary

In the chapter entitled (cid:862)african international relation ,(cid:863)you read. That there were many similarities among african countries as a. Result of their having been colonized by european powers. The united states was not a colonial interloper or imperial power in. Though we can derive some pride in that fact in comparison. To the british, french, portugese and other colonialists, there was, However the unfortunate and deplorable era of slavery that. Forcibly brought millions of africans to the southern part of the. Other than this fact of history, combined with the founding of. Liberia by freed american slaves in 1847, america was not heavily, Overtly and consciously engaged in africa in any meaningful way. Until the advent of the clinton administration with the exception of. The united states and the soviet union used the. Tenaciously for the hearts and minds of countries newly emerged. Throughout the continent with the exception of south africa.