American President Joe Biden’s latest slip of the tongue was a most unfortunate one. In his speech at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum on December 14, a key part of the long-overdue Second U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit (December 13-15), Biden announced he would “work with Congress to invest $350 billion to facilitate more than almost half a billion dollars in financing to make sure more people across Africa can participate in the digital economy.”
This figure far exceeded the $55 billion in aid to Africa the United States had promised to send over the next three years on the first day of the summit. The official transcript of the president’s
