Future belongs to young Africans who know what is happening
Majority under 25 see American power overtaking China, contradicting experts fearing Beijing as the new coloniser and wary of an isolationist first term.
The biggest eyebrow-raiser has to be the finding that, while half of Africa’s youth worry that US President Donald Trump could disregard international laws and norms to seize the continent’s resources, an even bigger proportion – two-thirds of them – believe Trump’s second term will bring them a better future.
The optimism about Trump shows that the president’s second term has been about projecting an image of a great power becoming great again, whereas the first term was isolationist and disparaging about places like Africa.
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