U.S. Foreign Policy

Democrats and Republicans Promise to Work with African continent

The Repub­li­can (GOP) and Demo­c­ra­t­ic nation­al polit­i­cal con­ven­tions were inter­est­ing. Of equal inter­est was the near absence of any­thing African in them. More broadly—while the con­ven­tions illu­mi­nat­ed the vast dif­fer­ences between Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans in Amer­i­ca, at least with an unusu­al nom­i­nee on the GOP side, they spelled out where both par­ties would like to take…