Nikki Haley’s Trip to Africa Will Be Exercise in Hypocrisy
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by: Uju Okoye
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is scheduled to visit Africa, but as Okoye writes, "the US may say it cares about Africa, but words are cheap." (Photo: Getty)
Donald Trump, an orator that never knowingly exits a room without leaving all eyebrows raised, surpassed himself on September 20th in a speech to African Leaders at the UN. He not only managed to happily endorse neo-colonialism by telling the assembled dignitaries that Americans love going to Africa to "get rich," he also managed to invent a whole new African country of "Nambia," having become confused between Namibia and Zambia.
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