How Easy It’s Been: Trump Outshines Predecessors In Work With Africa

President Donald Trump’s fiercest detractors refuse to give him credit for the obvious: He’s good with people.

Just look at his foreign policy record. Especially in comparison to his recent presidential predecessors. 

“As part of the bilateral cooperation between Uganda and the United States. … Third Country Nationals who may not be granted asylum in the United States but are reluctant to or may have concerns about returning to their countries of origin” will be accepted by Uganda, according to a statement from Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary Bagiire Vincet Waiswa. (RELATED: VIJAY JAYARAJ: Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies)

“This is a temporary arrangement with conditions including that individuals with criminal records and unaccompanied minors will not be accepted,” Waiswa’s statement continues. “Uganda also prefers that individuals from African countries shall be the ones transferred to Uganda.”

STATEMENT CONCERNING AGREEMENT ON MIGRATION ISSUES WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

As part of the bilateral cooperation between Uganda and the United States, an Agreement for cooperation in the examination of protection requests was concluded.

The Agreement is in… pic.twitter.com/dStdBSXtBN

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Uganda 🇺🇬 (@UgandaMFA) August 21, 2025

Border czar Tom Homan has previously suggested such agreements would be critical to achieving the Trump administration’s deportation goals.

“When you’ve got countries that won’t take their nationals back, and they can’t stay here, we find another country willing to accept them,” Homan said to Politico. 

Trump isn’t just brokering deals with African governments, but amassing goodwill among African civilians.

“Why do so many Nigerians love Donald Trump?” Shayera Dark questioned for African Arguments in 2020. 

“Trump is perceived as a bulwark against what they see as the emasculation of America – and themselves – by the likes of feminism and political correctness,” Dark concludes. 

The Guardian also took note of Nigerian support for Trump. 

“​​Portraits of Trump have grown more common among the impressionist depictions of notable figures often sold from open stalls on the streets of Nigeria,” the outlet reports. 

“Although perceptions of Trump vary across Nigeria’s diverse cultural and religious landscape, there is a large affinity towards him, fostered years before he entered politics when his larger-than-life image as a bombastic, straight-talking, self-made billionaire made his books a hit here.”

What impressions, then, do Africans have of former President Barack Obama?

Obama “acted like a colonial headman lecturing the natives on how to behave as good subjects,” writes Ugandan Journalist Andrew Mwenda of a speech given by Obama to the African Union in 2015. (RELATED: Obama Admits Critical ‘Mistake’ Made By Enlightened Lefties)

Mwenda laces into Obama for supposed “hypocrisy” in offering political advice to African countries. The journalist claims, “Many African leaders do not treat their people with the cruel contempt with which the US treats its black citizens.”

Mwenda seethes, “Instead of coming to lecture, Obama should have had the humility to come and apologise to Africans for his country’s sadistic adventures on our continent.”

Mwenda’s evidence for institutional anti-black racism is weaker than a wet paper towel. His indignation is the important part. Many Africans share it, judging by social media. 

Dear Obama, God will punish you!

At the eve of your inauguration, Thousands of Nigeria queue to watch it live, Because for us it was a semblance of Hope.

Your administration did not only ruin the Nigerian Economy, You also sponsored Boko Haram!

May the Blood of thousands that… pic.twitter.com/CfeYyXKcvw

— The Ilaje Sultan 🫅 (@ogunmusi) February 14, 2025

Each day, I wake up with curs£s for Barack Obama!

A “dev!l” in human flesh, a “daredevil” to his race, the “ruiner” of African progress, the “annihilator” of Nigeria’s toddling development.

He moved from silencing Moammar Gaddafi and wrecking Lybia to staging a “Ballot-Coup” in… pic.twitter.com/f18RyOP2tF

— Obiasogu David (@afrisagacity) September 5, 2024

Nigerian Christians were similarly incensed by former President Joe Biden, who failed to re-designate Nigeria as one of the State Department’s countries of particular concern for religious freedom violations. 

Nigeria is “the world’s center of Christian martyrs,” according to Global Christian Relief. “In any given year, the number of Christians killed by extremist groups is rarely less than 4,000.” 

“It is devastating to hear that the Biden administration has disappointed the persecuted Church in Nigeria again,” said Father Moses Lorapuu, according to Crux. Lorapuu is the vicar general pastoral for the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi in Nigeria’s Benue State.

“As long as the leadership of this country remains in the hands of those who are part of the persecution, there will be no justice for Christians. Relativistic euphemisms such as ‘communal clashes’ are political and economic lifelines for a Christian West that does not care much about the sufferings of the Christian South,” Lorapuu told the outlet.

“The Biden administration has been relating with a rogue government in Nigeria,” claimed Emeka Umeagbalasis to Crux. Umeagbalasis is the board chair of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law.

Aspiring Democratic diplomats, take note. African political sentiments are swayed by slightly more complex considerations than critical race theory.

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