U.S. Election: Africans Hope Biden Will Warm Up Relations with Continent

Former United States Vice President Joe Biden. JIM WATSON / AFP

Re-balancing ties between the United States and China emerged as one of the key themes in the stream of analysis that flowed all weekend from African journalists and analysts after Joe Biden formally won the U.S. presidential election.

Many commentators from the continent expressed a similar hope: that the U.S. would re-engage the continent through more direct investment, a resumption of support for multilateral organizations like the WHO and the WTO and dial down Washington’s acrimonious foreign policy, which has rattled international markets and reduced the value of African commodities.

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