Ideally Europe should be Africa's most dynamic trading partner, but there is this thing called "history".
Post WW2, Europe was "saved" by access to the US consumer, barring that Europe would have done the only thing it knows how to do;
Exploit Africa.
France is the major driver of European engagement in Africa;
Old habits die hard.
France was a colonial power, is a colonial power - and will always behave like a colonial power in Africa;
If given the opportunity.
And Francophone Africa gives them the opportunity.
As for the rest of Europe;
Italy's interest in Africa doesn't extend beyond immigration, and what is good for ENI/AGIP. (Libya is a metaphor for Italian engagement).
Spain (for obvious reasons) is more interested in business links with Latin America.
With the exit of UK from the EU, Netherlands feels marooned. They are more used to doing business with the more pro-free trade British (e.g. Unilever, Royal Dutch Shell) than with statist France and domineering manufacturing/export obsessed Germany.
They aren't comfortable.
As for the so-called "Central Europe", the less said about them, the better.
They are only interested in "Africa" within the context of the "Black peril". Scare stories about hordes of Black immigrants on their borders are useful to identitarians like Viktor Orban.
Then within Europe itself, there are teething problems;
1. Germany has to bail Southern Europe. 2. France has outsized foreign policy ambitions, which it expects Germany to fund. 3. Demographic crisis. 4. Common monetary policy (ECB) without a fiscal union.
The whole thing is a tower of Babel, with Germany the clear leader;
But Germany is extremely reluctant to lead.
So I don't expect anything significant to happen in EU-Africa relations - and EU's future growth potential is limited.
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I watched Yvette Cooper tear Suella Braverman to pieces.
Many Africans haven't fully appreciated what the UK Conservative Government's singular on focus really Rwanda means.
It means the UK Government prefers African authoritarians, who do their bidding, to African democracies.
Trust me, this isn't the time for shallow thinking.
If you extrapolate, you'll understand the implications.
Some of you believe "Kagame is smart" by accepting the offer. Trust me, he isn't - he's cementing Africa's reputation as a dumping ground for Europe's problems.
I'm not going to bore you with the details - just use your brains, do a little thinking.
Also internalize this, just as Europe sees Africa as a dumping ground for its migrant problems - they also sees Africa as a dumping ground for their "climate change" problems.
Christianity was introduced to Africans with the idea of "generational curses" - and since then, African Christians have been obsessed with that idea.
It started with the "Curse of Ham" - which was a cynical ploy to justify slavery, and many Blacks fell for that nonsense.
When the "Curse of Ham" failed, "Nimrod", an obscure figure from thousands of years ago, was dredged up as an excuse for our position as the slaves, servants and wretched of the Earth.
After that came the syncretism of "ancestral curses" - borrowed from our traditional beliefs.
But the Bible is clear;
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him".