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Most US foreign policy responses to issues of democracy, security, and development in sub-Saharan African countries appear self-serving. As the Economist asserts, “the mind-set of U.S. foreign policy-makers to the world evoke terrible bickering, divisions and derisory discourses.”1 In sub-Saharan Africa for instance, such bickering is rife, given the excruciating underdevelopment that still exists, in contrast to the infinite opportunities the people rightly or wrongly believe the United States could offer. Essentially, most people consider “the U.S. to be the world’s greatest liberal democracy, adorned with exceptional human emancipation, incarnated by highly resonating human and material resources, epitomised by all sorts of imaginable opportunities.”2 Perhaps, this explains why people believe, “associating with the U.S. portends immense individual or collective life achievement.”3
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Masumbe, P.S. (2013). US Foreign Policy toward Sub-Saharan African Countries: What Challenges Democracy, Security, and Human Development?. In: Burt, S., Añorve, D.A. (eds) Global Perspectives on US Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137357663_8
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