Still thinking about what is fundamentally decrepit about US policy towards Africa. Something is. It starts with how we've theoretically substituted existential respect for realist policy. What if China had an Africom? We'd be "uneasy."
Machiavelli told us coercion is central. Friedman told us it was free markets. The 20th century listened to them. Why not Polanyi? Land being the principle source of all wealth. Not quite metaphorically put, coercion is now; markets are tomorrow; and long term stability and extraction are years from now.
China seems to be listening. Western style capital doesn't have the reach to look as far, maybe. For better or for worse, the West is singing an antiquarian love song to 21st century Africa. There's got to be something next. I just don't know how yet.
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