U.S. Was Late to China's Rise. What's It Missing Now?

With its immense population growth, ballooning cities, fast-growing middle classes, widening zones of poverty, environmental devastation, soaring refugee populations, and civil and sectarian violence, the evolution of Africa over the next two decades is the sleeper issue of humankind. Will anyone break the stale molds of American engagement in the past and approach the continent with the imagination and urgency required? It is a pregnant question, and one that will affect America’s place in the world as much as the shrinking circles from the projector during the presentation about China’s rise more than 20 years ago.