{"id":22419,"date":"2018-01-03T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:44:42","slug":"what-are-the-prospects-for-africa-in-2018-and-does-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22419","title":{"rendered":"What are the prospects for Africa in 2018 &#8211; and does anyone care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve been to Africa 8 times and visited eight countries (Kenya four times). But the continent is home to no less than 54 nations and, in. terms of the world&#8217;s media, very under-reported.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jan\/02\/africa-heads-different-directions-politically-economically\">this short article<\/a>, the Africa correspondent of the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper briefly reviews the state of the continent and the position in some major countries. He concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Washington\u2019s interest in Africa is minimal, with scores of top official policy-making and ambassadorial posts still unfilled.<\/p>\n<p>China, though its attitudes and interventions are frequently misrepresented, retains a strong focus on the continent. France is likely to try to expand outside its traditional sphere of influence \u2013 as signalled by President Emmanuel Macron in November.<\/p>\n<p>The UK will look to historic ties in places like Zimbabwe or Nigeria to project influence post-Brexit, though it may find imperial nostalgia or the advantages of the anglosphere have less attraction in Bulawayo or Abuja than in Tunbridge Wells.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve been to Africa 8 times and visited eight countries (Kenya four times). But the continent is home to no less than 54 nations and, in. terms of the world&#8217;s media, very under-reported. In this short article, the Africa correspondent of the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper briefly reviews the state of the continent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22423,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions\/22423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}