Nobel Prize winner, Wole Soyinka has said that the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race could put in danger the support the country get from America in the fight against Boko Haram.
Soyinka disclosed this in an interview with Newsweek that Donald Trump’s “bunker mentality” could see to the withdrawal of America’s support from counter-terrorism operations in West Africa
Trump, the Republican party candidate, shocked pollsters by defeating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s vote. The businessman and former reality television star secured victories in key swing states, capitalizing on an anti-establishment feeling among voters to win out against his more experienced rival.
It should be noted that under Obama the administration, the U.S. has provided financial support and military training to West African countries fighting Boko Haram.
Obama also approved the deployment of up to 300 U.S. military personnel to Cameroon in October 2015 to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations in the region.
“One should expect that level of collaboration to diminish. Trump’s mentality is one of, ‘What are we doing there? What business do we have over there?’” says Soyinka.
“I foresee Trump dismissing that kind of expectation offhand and closing in, shrinking, becoming smaller in terms of [the U.S.’s] presence in other parts of the world,” he says.
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