What does a Trump Presidency mean for Africa? And we remember Patrice Lumumba

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What does a Trump Presidency mean for Africa?

Ok, Trump is President and how does that affect Africa? If history is anything to go by, Trump has shown us to be a transactional President. Not that the other American leaders were not but he is more predictable and one could argue straight forward. African countries should position their best trade negotiators in Washington as we expect Trump’s presidency to be highly influenced by trade negotiation terms. One African country that might need to work harder than most is South Africa. Mzansi has established a relationship with Russia and China through the BRICS set up and that has not gone down well with the USA. Expect Trump to play the AGOA card in negotiations with Africa’s most industrialized country.

Remembering Patrice Lumumba

It’s been 64 years since the death of one of Africa’s great sons, Patrice Emery Lumumba. Lumumba was assassinated just 6 years after leading the Democratic Republic of Congo to independence. As a way to remember one of the continent’s gallant sons, here is an excerpt from his Independence Day speech that rattled the colonizer’s feathers;?

“No Congolese worthy of the name will ever be able to forget that it was by fighting that [our independence] has been won,” Lumumba said.

“Slavery was imposed on us by force, we remember the blows that we had to submit to morning, noon, and night because we were ‘negroes’.” “We shall show the world what the Black man can do when working in liberty, and we shall make the Congo the pride of Africa.”

May his legacy continue to live on!!

Kenya demands social media companies set up offices in the country.

In an interesting move, the Kenyan government has asked social media companies to set up physical offices within the country’s borders or risk being banned.

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram applications are the most used with 56 and 30 percent of Kenya’s population using them according to Kenya’s Communications Authority.

If you are wondering if this could have a ripple effect when it comes to how other African countries engage with the platform, your guess is as good as ours.