La diaspora africaine et la politique américaine en Afrique australe

Abstract

The Impact of the African Diaspora on US Foreign Policy toward Southern Africa, by Ronald Walters The endurance of the philosophy and practice of Pan Africanism is clearly évident in the fact that peoples of African descent living in various nations are increasingly contributing to the leadership which influences the develop- ment of foreign policy toward Southern Africa, as a case in point. As illustrated by the success of the Free South Africa Movement in the United States, African Americans have evolved a model which suggests that policy influence rests on the maturation of « triad » of factors such as the growth of Black members of Congress like the Congressional Black Caucus, the political influence of Rev. Jesse Jackson at the national and international level, and policy mobilization at the grassroots level by TransAfrica. This model is exportable to other countries with significant African-origin populations such as Britain and France, but its effectiveness is dependent upon the maturation of the « triad » in those countries and upon more fertile relations with the leadership of the African Continent.