Book Review Rethinking United States-Africa Relations: US Engagement and the Development Question in Africa-Jonah I. Onuoha

Abstract

The essay “Rethinking United States-Africa Relations: US Engagement and the Development Question in Africa” by Prof. Jonah Onuoha was published in 2020 as a reproduction of a lecture with the same title he delivered to Course 27 Participants at the National Defence College in Abuja, Nigeria in 2019. In the essay, Onuoha discusses the question of whether US engagement with Africa rather enhanced development or underdevelopment on the continent. In order to do this, Onuoha traces the history of US-Africa relations to analyse thrusts and trends of this relationship and paints a prognosis of possible future scenarios.