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Further, the author takes the view that in the wake of 9/11 and subsequent challenges to social and political order on the continent, security issues are again paramount for the US in its relationship with this continent. [...] Chief among these were missionary efforts, the protection of the Mediterranean Sea trade routes from piracy by the Barbary States (what are now When Barack Obama was elected president of the US, however, expectations on the continent for a great revival of interest and involvement with Africa grew quickly The United States and Africa in the Obama Era 2 Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), and a m. [...] This sometimes took the shape of a connection with the idea of an imagined Africa (more than with actual continental realities) such as the appeal of the ideology of Marcus Garveyism - or to Abyssinia as the “sons of Sheba’s race”. [...] According to the program’s own website, key objectives of the program are: to further the goal of regional stability through effective, mutually beneficial military-to-military relations which culminate in increased understanding and defence cooperation between the United States and foreign countries and to increase the ability of foreign national military and civilian personnel to absorb and main. [...] The Obama administration argued for more responsibility taken by Africans who would find a partner in America, rather than a perpetual dispenser of aid or of a nation that would parachute in to solve the continent’s problems The United States and Africa in the Obama Era 12 Obama went on to say that Africa’s future would not derive from the “giants like Nkrumah and Kenyatta who will determine Afric.