For decades, sub-Saharan Africa has been treated as nothing more than a dumping ground for humanitarian aid an instrument the West occasionally employed to ease its collective guilt for slavery, colonialism and its own prosperity, only to turn its attention elsewhere as soon as that guilt was temporarily assuaged.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Recolonizing Africa

For decades, sub-Saharan Africa has been treated as nothing more than a dumping ground for humanitarian aid -- an instrument the West occasionally employed to ease its collective guilt for slavery, colonialism and its own prosperity, only to turn its attention elsewhere as soon as that guilt was temporarily assuaged.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Recolonizing Africa

Lately the collective ambitions of America have shrunk, but the individual aspirations of its citizens their dreams of prosperity, freedom and happiness are undiminished.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century America