US PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE DIPLOMACY OF GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY IN AFRICA

Abstract

This study examines US President Barrack Obama’s transformational diplomacy of growth and opportunity for Africa and the promise it holds for African renaissance. The US government under President Obama construes its African diplomacy in terms of a partnership that rejects the old imperialistic perception of the U.S. and the West as patrons. This study, thus, x-rays US diplomacy under Obama against the backdrop of the structural imperatives of the global economy. Deriving from the Marxian theory of social production, the potentials of change in vibrant youthful energy resources of Africa and the capacity of democratic political leadership to engineer change is problematized.