What Is President Obama's African Strategy?

Does Obama Have A Strategy For Africa? -- John Norris, Foreign Policy

Not yet.

Africa responded with joy when Barack Obama was elected. There was dancing in the streets of Liberia. Kenya declared his inauguration a public holiday. When Obama visited the continent in July 2009, far earlier in his term than the handful of other U.S. presidents that had actually traveled to Africa while in office, expectations only continued to rise. Obama's major address on Africa policy, delivered in Ghana, was generally well received, with African politicians across the spectrum broadly reassured by its themes of self-reliance and good governance. Many Africans (and many American Africa experts) assumed that, with a father born in Kenya, Obama's approach to Africa would be transformative.

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My Comment: I call President Obama's Africa policy a "work in progress". But in the event that President Obama is not successful in winning a second term .... my prediction is that a President Romney will also have the same African policy .... a "work in progress".