America and human rights post-2016 elections: A view from the South post-2016 elections: A view from the South
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Okeoma Ibe
This article reflects on the recently concluded presidential election in the United States and its potential implications for the promotion of democracy and human rights across the world, particularly in Africa. It suggests that the election provides an opportunity for the US to deepen rather than reduce its engagement.
The 2016 US presidential election was always going to produce an unprecedented outcome. Had she won, Hillary Clinton would have become the first woman to be elected US president. Going by many pre-election polls, that was the outcome most Americans preferred. But the polls were wrong. Donald Trump won. He is the first to win without any prior political or military experience. In a sense, that takes ...