{"id":53291,"date":"2016-09-19T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=53291"},"modified":"2016-09-19T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:34:51","slug":"elumelu-us-says-clinton-trump%e2%80%8e-us-africa-policy-somethings-dont-need-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/pointblanknews-investigations\/elumelu-us-says-clinton-trump%e2%80%8e-us-africa-policy-somethings-dont-need-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Elumelu, in US, Says to Clinton &#038; Trump\u200e: On US-Africa Policy, Somethings Don&#8217;t Need To Change&#8221; \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eNew York <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_575392814\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 19, 2016<\/span><\/span>:\u00a0 Speaking at the weekend in Delaware as the<br \/>\nKeynote Speaker at the US Senator Chris Coons\u2019 Opportunity Africa<br \/>\nConference 2016, Elumelu urged candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton<br \/>\n\u200ethat on the US-Africa Policy, somethings don&#8217;t need to change. What they<br \/>\nneed is to be expanded and scaled up.\u00a0 In other words, we need more U.S.<br \/>\nengagement in Africa through mutually beneficial trade and investment. \u200e&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Elumelu said &#8220;That is exactly what I, and 200 other US<br \/>\nand African political and business leaders including President Obama and<br \/>\nover 30 African Presidents, will be discussing next week at the US-Africa<br \/>\nBusiness Forum in New York- how to strengthen mutually beneficial economic<br \/>\nties between the African and American peoples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elumelu\u2019s theme is entrepreneurship. One of Africa\u2019s leading<br \/>\nentrepreneurs; he is dedicating time and money, to create a new generation<br \/>\nof African business woman and men, committing $100m of his own money.<br \/>\nAccording to Elumelu, \u201cIf we give our people the economic tools to thrive,<br \/>\nliving standards increase, the political challenges that Africa faces can<br \/>\nbe tackled and fundamental positive change can be assured. He\u200e called on<br \/>\nthe next US President to work in Shared Purpose with Africans on<br \/>\nimplementing innovative solutions to the complex but surmountable<br \/>\nchallenges in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also challenged the American electorate that \u201cSo when you meet, write,<br \/>\ncall and email your political candidates and representatives and the<br \/>\nelected President in November, tell them that when it comes to Africa, you<br \/>\nwant \u201cMore. And by \u201cMore\u201d, I mean more engagement, more positively<br \/>\nimpactful policies and more development and commercial investment in<br \/>\nAfrica.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In closing, \u200eElumelu said &#8220;I am an unashamed optimist and I believe that<br \/>\nworking together, in Shared Purpose, which is what Africapitalism is<br \/>\nabout,\u00a0 we can help usher in economic transformation that will ensure<br \/>\nAfrica is\u00a0 a critical player in the 21stcentury global economy. \u200e&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eNew York September 19, 2016:\u00a0 Speaking at the weekend in Delaware as the Keynote Speaker at the US Senator Chris Coons\u2019 Opportunity Africa Conference 2016, Elumelu urged candidates Donald Trump&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pointblanknews-investigations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elumelu, in US, Says to Clinton &amp; 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