Africa–United States relations

He also went to Britain which came to London from the British West African colony of the Gold Coast, following the end of the Second World War in Europe which marked as VE Day in May 1945.

The religious ethos and cultural norms of the ACS shaped Afro-American settler society and determined social behavior in 19th-century Liberia.

Although they could identify with the local population on a purely racial basis, the nature of their religious indoctrination caused them to view the Liberians as inferiors whose souls needed saving.

The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, occasionally sending naval vessels to help the Americo-Liberians, who comprised the ruling minority, put down insurrections by indigenous tribes (in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915).

By 1909, Liberia faced serious external threats to its sovereignty from the European colonial powers over unpaid foreign loans and annexation of its borderlands.

[5] President William Howard Taft devoted a portion of his First Annual Message to Congress (December 7, 1909) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention: In 1912 the U.S. arranged a 40-year international loan of $1.7 million, against which Liberia had to agree to four Western powers (America, Britain, France and Germany) controlling Liberian Government revenues for the next 14 years, until 1926.

American administration of the border police also stabilized the frontier with Sierra Leone and checked French ambitions to annex more Liberian territory.

The meeting both strengthened the Emperor's already strong predilection towards the United States, as well as discomforted the British who had been at odds with the Ethiopian government over the disposition of Eritrea and the Ogaden.

[12] The economic aid came through Washington's "Point Four" program and served as a model for American assistance to the newly independent African nations.

The island of Gorée was one of the first places in Africa to be settled by the French, after it was discovered by the Portuguese in 1444 before it was ceded to the Dutch in 1558, then to England in 1664 and finally to France in 1677.

Senghor served as its first President of Senegal until 1980, after more than 283 years of French rule, and Saint Louis was the capital of Francophone Africa before the seat of government relocated to Dakar.

The six colours were arranged around a Y shape, representing a convergence on a new harmonious future which has led the opinions of the past since the British settlers who came to South Africa and the Afrikaners with Dutch settlement along with those opinions of the majority Black population between the tribes of Xhosa and the Zulu peoples along with the former German colony and the mandate of South African administration of Namibia since independence in 1990 which shares the border between the two countries since the end of Apartheid regime.

The flagship institution was the American University in Cairo, which offered all classes in Arabic, and practiced flexible methods that were adopted in Egyptian-sponsored schools when they began to appear in the 20th century.

In 1956, the U.S. was alarmed at the closer ties between Egypt and the Soviet Union, and prepared the OMEGA Memorandum as a stick to reduce the regional power of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

A major result was that the United States largely replaced Great Britain in terms of regional influence in the Middle East.

[17]In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, a state college in Alabama directed by the national Black leader Booker T. Washington, sent experts to the German colony of Togo in West Africa.

With the British based in Egypt pushing back German and Italian forces, the United States and Britain launched Operation Torch with amphibious landings in Morocco and Algeria in November 1942.

Historian James Meriweather argues that American policy towards Africa was characterized by a middle road approach, which supported African independence but also reassured European colonial powers that their holdings could remain intact.

Washington wanted the right type of African groups to lead newly independent states, which tended to be noncommunist and not especially democratic.

Kennedy was alarmed by the implications of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's 1961 speech that proclaimed the USSR's intention to intervene in anticolonial struggles around the world.

Since most nations in Europe, Latin America, and Asia had already chosen sides, Kennedy and Krushchev both looked to Africa as the next Cold War battleground.

Under the leadership of Sékou Touré, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence in 1958 and immediately sought foreign aid.

[22] Eisenhower was hostile to Touré, so the African nation quickly turned to the Soviet Union--making it the Kremlin's first success story in Africa.

Revisionists said that did not matter nearly as much as the intense rivalry between dovish Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and hawkish National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.

[26] Along post-revisionist lines, Nancy Mitchell in a monumental book depicts Carter as a decisive but ineffective Cold Warrior, who, nevertheless had some successes because Soviet incompetence was even worse.

[27] The Presidency of Ronald Reagan, starting in January 1981, decided that the Carter administration had largely failed in Africa, and sharply changed directions.

[30][31] The Reagan administration mobilized private philanthropic and business sources to fund food supplies to areas in Africa devastated by famine.

The Geopolitical situation in southern Africa, 1978–79.
SWAPO allies
South African allies
South West Africa (Namibia)
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