Johnson battles Trump, Xi for Africa’s soul

Johnson

When something is a first, it just means that the person or people behind it have a serious purpose for it.

So the first-ever UK-Africa Investment Summit is a first for the UK for several reasons, chief of which is that its message to the US and China that it will not watch idly while they continue to gorge themselves on Africa.

New UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is rearing to write himself into the history books and exploiting Africa is one of the easiest and fastest ways to do that.

And with US President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping already on the Africa cruise ahead of him, Johnson is wasting no time to catch up with them.

Trump (left) and Xi

The basic reasons for the summit say it all.

To make African countries know the UK should be their investment partner of choice, and to generate new opportunities in Africa for businesses across the UK.

While virtually every country and continent of the world are involved with themselves in one way or the other, Johnson, Trump and Xi are not just any men but the most powerful in the world and anything they do is in cold calculation for their countries’ sakes.

Sadly, African leaders are opposite to them in this regard.