如果说冷战结束后非洲由于在世界政治经济基本格局中战略地位下降而被人冷落,逐渐“边缘化”,那么,近几年来,随着非洲经济好转,政局渐趋稳定,南非新政府成立并重返国际社会,非洲则开始重新受到西方大国的关注。美国前商务部长布朗在1996年2月访问非洲5国时说:“现在是美国改变对非洲看法的时候了。贫穷、落后、战争与难民并不是黑非洲的全部。从我访问过的这些国家,我看到的是巨大的经济潜力和贸易机会。”法国负责海外发展的部长雅克·戈德弗雷甚至预言:“非洲撒哈拉以南地区在21世纪将成为经济强大的地区,可以同今天的亚 If after the end of the Cold War, Africa was left out and gradually “marginalized” because of its strategic decline in the basic political and economic structure of the world, then in recent years, with the improvement of the African economy and the political stabilization, the new South African government will be formed Returning to the international community, Africa has begun to regain the attention of the big Western countries. In a February 1996 visit to five African countries, Brown said: “Now it is time for the United States to change its view of Africa.Poverty, backwardness, war and refugees are not all of Black Africa, and from the countries I have visited, I see huge economic potential and trade opportunities. ”Jacques Godfrey, the French Minister for Overseas Development, even predicted:" Sub-Saharan Africa will become a very economically powerful area in the 21st century,