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Hillary Dissed Black Leaders During Africa Trip: Lectured,Criticized, Patronizing Neo-Colonial Scold
Last edited Thu Feb 25, 2016, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)
Secretary of State Hillary showing respect toward Africans and Africa (NOT):
hillHillary Was Tone-Deaf During Africa Trip
The media in Africa immediately labeled her speeches "lectures."
One day before [Hillary Clinton] arrived in Nairobi, her first stop on the seven-nation tour, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga told the United States: "We don't need lectures on how to govern ourselves.
Lecturing us on issues that deal with governance and transparency is in bad taste."
The next day, Clinton went ahead and criticized Kenya's leaders, calling on them to hold those responsible for the post-election violence accountable.
In Nigeria, the ruling party and the Senate President strongly condemned Mrs. Clinton's remarks.
In South Africa, the Southern Times argued in an editorial titled "Do we need these lectures from the West?" that her preaching cast her in the role of a "neo-colonial scold."
An editorial in the East African, "Poor Hillary, just good enough for Africa," pointed out that Clinton has been relegated to the "sort-out-the-Africans role," while her husband and other White House envoys get the critical foreign policy assignments.
One day before [Hillary Clinton] arrived in Nairobi, her first stop on the seven-nation tour, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga told the United States: "We don't need lectures on how to govern ourselves.
Lecturing us on issues that deal with governance and transparency is in bad taste."
The next day, Clinton went ahead and criticized Kenya's leaders, calling on them to hold those responsible for the post-election violence accountable.
In Nigeria, the ruling party and the Senate President strongly condemned Mrs. Clinton's remarks.
In South Africa, the Southern Times argued in an editorial titled "Do we need these lectures from the West?" that her preaching cast her in the role of a "neo-colonial scold."
An editorial in the East African, "Poor Hillary, just good enough for Africa," pointed out that Clinton has been relegated to the "sort-out-the-Africans role," while her husband and other White House envoys get the critical foreign policy assignments.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 11-day trip to Africa, which came less than a month after President Barack Obama's visit to Egypt and Ghana in July, was an attempt to emphasize Africa's importance to the United States. Clinton was supposed to reassure African leaders that the Obama administration intends to engage with the continent, despite wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and perennial problems in Israel and the Korean peninsula.
The trip, however, merely reinforced Africa's marginal position in U.S. foreign policy. Clinton did not announce any new initiatives or policy directions. Instead, she said the United States would continue to support Bush administration initiatives on "faith-based" HIV prevention and Millennium Development grants. She also pledged to extend military aid to Somalia and $17 million for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Clinton's rhetoric during the trip signaled a continuation of the Bush administration's dualism in its policies toward Africa. This dualism consists of moral condemnation of corruption and human rights abuses while facilitating economic and security ties with mineral-rich and security partners.
During the trip, Secretary of State Clinton appeared as petulant and imperious.
Her self-proclaimed "tough love" speeches sounded patronizing.
She threatened Eritrea with unspecified action for supporting militants in Somalia. In the DRC, she lost her temper at skeptical questions from students. In response to a question about the motives for her trip, she replied that the United States was not obliged to aid victims of violence. [/b
]She also took umbrage at another student's query about her husband's views on China's investments in Africa. In Angola, too, she struck an incongruous figure lecturing on good governance, despite the history of U.S. efforts to subvert the democratic process by financing a terrorist militia (UNITA) to destabilize the government.
Clinton insisted on giving unsolicited advice on the connection between democracy and economic growth.
Her self-proclaimed "tough love" speeches sounded patronizing.
She threatened Eritrea with unspecified action for supporting militants in Somalia. In the DRC, she lost her temper at skeptical questions from students. In response to a question about the motives for her trip, she replied that the United States was not obliged to aid victims of violence. [/b
]She also took umbrage at another student's query about her husband's views on China's investments in Africa. In Angola, too, she struck an incongruous figure lecturing on good governance, despite the history of U.S. efforts to subvert the democratic process by financing a terrorist militia (UNITA) to destabilize the government.
Clinton insisted on giving unsolicited advice on the connection between democracy and economic growth.
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Nesbitt, Francis Njubi. Foreign Policy in Focus. (Aug 21, 2009).
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instead of settling. 
