Trump’s banquet for Africa’s Lilliputians

THE presidents of five West and Central African states – Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberia’s Joseph Boakai, Guinea-Bissau’s Umaro Cissoko Embaló, Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and Gabon’s Brice Oligui Nguema - recently visited United States (U.S.) president Donald Trump for a bizarre banquet in the White House