Trump’s Deportations Spark Anger Across Africa

Trump’s Deportations Spark Anger Across Africa

Africans say that the United States is using the continent as a “dumping ground.”

Africa As Dumping Ground for Unwanted Global Wastes: From Rwanda to Eswatini, By Prof Bola Akinterinwa - Thepodiummedia

Africa, in the strategic calculations of the more developed countries, is a dumping ground for their toxic wastes and e-wastes. Africans themselves do not see this as a source of their socio-political and economic setbacks. Right from the time of general accession of African countries into national sovereignty in the 1960s, the use of Africa for development of Europe was raised. Africa was and is still seen by Europeans as a source of raw materi…