Perhaps Donald Trump offers a good lesson in patriotism for contemporary African leaders. Talking about hypocrisy, devil is in the details of Donald Trump’s speech. Germany’s Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel reportedly has accused Donald Trump of delivering
Not being a fan of Donald Trouble, (sorry President Donald Trump!), reflecting on some “lessons” of the Inauguration speech of the 45th President of the United States of America (USA) for Nigeria and Africa would definitely sound and read hypocritical.
And certainly for once to be hypocritical in analysing President Donald Trump, will just perfectly be politically correct. For one, the less than 1500 presidential words of Donald Trump on Friday January 20, 2017, contain scores of hypocritical presidential diatribes such that no academic analysis of his speech will be objective enough if it is not seemingly hypocritical.
Donald Trump mentioned America almost 25 times in a speech delivered less than 20 minutes, meaning America is mentioned in almost every minute!. No mention of Europe or American Allies. Of course Donald Trump is totally Africa blind in his inaugural speech. Africans and African leaders who since last year have been concerned and almost obsessed about the possible outcome of American election (as distinct from the outcome of the recently concluded Ghanaian election!) must know that in the final analysis Donald Trump was elected as the President of USA to serve America and American interest.
“From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first, America first.” he declared! Since the good days of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinean, Murtala Muhammed of Nigeria, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Nelson Mandela, I don’t know when last any African leader proudly put Africa first. There is certainly a collapse of dignity here in Africa. In speeches, African leaders are eager to celebrate the “support” of the International community rather than acknowledge the sacrifices of their own peoples. African leaders fuel medical tourism abroad and even proudly spend their leave days abroad.
Perhaps Donald Trump offers a good lesson in patriotism for contemporary African leaders. Talking about hypocrisy, devil is in the details of Donald Trump’s speech. Germany’s Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel reportedly has accused Donald Trump of delivering an inauguration speech with “high nationalistic tones” adding that the businessman had been elected as a result of “bad radicalisation” in the US. Maybe. But reading Trump, he was as nationalistic as he was imperialistic like any previous American President. Read him; “Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come.” The lesson here is that Africans should define everything from international politics to entertainment”. The United States is still the most influential country. But even at that while in hypocritical denial of remarkable economic recovery under President Obama with all-time lower unemployment level, Trump is still aggressively pushing American agenda to even a greater height at the expense of other nations. Will African leaders learn that investment charity must start at home and that no foreign investors would develop the continent than we Africans are willing to invest here? Talking about investment, Trump’s speech is strong on reviving closed