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A former top Africanist at the State Department, Carson returned to government service in December to serve as President Joe Biden’s point man for delivering on the promises of his US-Africa Leaders Summit. Since then, the former ambassador to Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda has been tapping into his half-century of connections across the continent to help turn America’s lofty rhetoric into concrete results.
The Africa Report caught up with Carson on 4 May just down the street from the State Department at the US Institute of Peace think tank, where he has been serving as a senior advisor since 2013.
It has been more than five months since African leaders gathered in Washington for the first time since 2014. What are you hearing from them?
Money is flowing, projects are being supported, programmes are being implemented, and people are working [on following up on commitments] both in the US
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