Bola A. Akinterinwa Every US presidential election attracts international attention for various reasons. It is mostly believed that the United States is the strongest country in the world, and by implication, its president is necessarily seen as the most powerful leader of the world.
Secondly, the current global system is western world-dominated against which the proponents of the BRICS are pointedly militating. The Western world is led by the United States. As such, who becomes the leader of the United States cannot but also be of a major interest to European leaders.
And true enough, former President Donald Trump was re-elected the 47th President of the United States on Tuesday, 5 November 2024. The election was in spite of Donald Trump’s record of being a criminal felon and his indisputable racist personality of looking down on others, especially the people of Africa. What is more internationally disturbing is how a noble society like that of the Americans can afford the luxury of giving preference to criminality over dignity of purpose and other moral values.
Many Africans in the Diaspora, particularly in the United States, often argue that the more than 80 million people who voted for Donald Trump cannot but have vested interests justifying their choice. We cannot agree more with their democratic choice. However, why should an American society, purportedly the first society in the world, be preaching the gospel of a holier-than-thou lifestyle to non-Americans when it i.