TRUMPISM: TRENDS AND ISSUES IN AFRO-AMERICAN RELATIONS
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The paper undertook a succinct review of past and prevailing Afro-America relations in the light of the aggressive nationalist posture of the immediate past president of the United States, Donald Trump. If it is true that Afro-America relations, even at its peak, never constituted a formidable consequentiality, it is also equally true that it has never been subjected to the type of intense pressure it witnessed during the administration of Donald Trump. This attack was inclusive of state sanctioned negative labelling of Africans, markedly hostile and an untoward narrative of Africa, exclusionist policies on immigration and travel and significant reductions in development aid. The paper examined the impact of these policies on Afro-American relations through the review of secondary materials. Findings however revealed that Trump’s vitriolic attacks on Africa and Africans did not significantly impact negatively on Afro-American relations either at the mass or elite levels. Indeed all sections of African society appear to agree with the pronouncements of Trump on Africa. The paper concluded as a result of this finding that Africa generally has to restructure its society especially the economic system in order to gain greater recognition and respect globally.
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