The scramble for African trade has moved on, but Britain hasn’t | Afua Hirsch
by Afua Hirsch from on (#3Y3CX)
Theresa May danced across the continent - but the UK needs to stop arrogantly assuming Africa will fill the Brexit trade gap
While the British media dined out on Theresa May's Africa trip last week, Africans are still reeling from the reporting. Sky News captioned Uhuru Kenyatta as "president of Africa", while the BBC gave the title he should have had, "president of Kenya", to his rival, Raila Odinga.
There are a million metaphors in Britons declaring an African superstate based in Kenya - who knew our broadcasters were such pan-Africanists? - and declaring an Odinga coup. But the reality is that there is widespread cluelessness in Britain about the political and economic situation across the continent today, and it shows.
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