Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016 successive prime ministers – Theresa May and now Boris Johnson – have promised expansive new trade deals with Africa...
There is also the ambitious pledge – made by Theresa May last year – that Britain plans to be the biggest single investor in Africa of the G-7 countries...
Most are staunch Eurosceptics with the notable exception of Sam Gyimah a British Ghanaian who resigned as an Education secretary in Theresa May's government in November 2018 to campaign for a second referendum and was expelled from the Tory party in September after voting to prevent a 'no-deal' Brexit...