Post Strategy
Judd DevermontThinking out loud about U.S. foreign policy toward Africa
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On Lecturing
It has become a familiar refrain: previous administrations spent too much of their time lecturing Africans. It shows up in speeches, interviews, and congressional hearings. It has become the easy answer to almost any question, often used as...
On Stocktaking
One year ago today, I published my first post on Substack. Since then, I’ve written 22 posts, drawn on more than 300 sources—from declassified CIA assessments to oral histories to congressional transcripts—and confessed to getting a lot of...
On Presidential Trips
In a small corner of the West Wing in early December 2022, I spied an opening for a big deliverable. I asked the room whether we would regret missing the chance for the president to announce, in front of his counterparts at the U.S.-Africa...
On Sanctions
There has been a lot of action in the sanctions space lately. From de-listing Malian junta leaders to designating the Rwandan military, each action has attracted major media attention as well as public acclaim or condemnation—depending on w...
On Confirmation Hearings
A few weeks ago, I watched the confirmation hearing for assistant secretary of state for African affairs nominee Frank Garcia. It was not especially substantive, though that was hardly his fault. Sitting on a panel with four other ambassado...
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Former NSC senior director for Africa. Former CSIS Africa program director. Former national intelligence officer for Africa. Always writing about U.S.-Africa relations.
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