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Academic Analysis and U.S. Policy-Making on Africa: Reflections and Conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

David S. Wiley
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Late in the 1980s, several major U.S. private foundations concluded that the concern for Africa in the country was weak. This weakness was reflected in the faint focus on U.S. foreign policy toward Africa in all three branches of government, in the halting voice for Africa or for U.S. interests there in the non-governmental organizations (think-tanks, religious organizations, lobbies), and in the small concern for U.S. policy or for affecting it in the African studies scholarly community. Indeed, the voice for Africa in the United States was neither strong nor effective.

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Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 38 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1991 

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David Wiley is Professor of Sociology and Director of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. He has authored or edited: Southern Africa: Society, Economy, and Liberation, The Third World: Africa, Africa on Film and Videotape, and Group Portrait: Internationalizing the Disciplines.

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Notes

1. These conclusions are the joint product of Professors Larry Bowman, Michael Bratton and David Wiley.

2. This section is authored by David Wiley alone.