Abstract From March 22 to April 2, US president Clinton made a former visit to six African
countries: Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda,
South Africa, Botswana and Senegal. Clinton's African tour is a major
diplomatic move following the US's redefining of African place in its global strategy, indicating an elevation of Africa's status in the US diplomatic consideration. At the early stage of the post-Cold War, along with its role devalued sharply in the US strategy, Africa was once left out in the cold by the US. However, since 1995, under the various domestic pressures, the Clinton Administration began to reassess Africa' s important value to the US from the perspective of its global strategy, and from 1996 onward a series of policy readjustments were made. The features of the new US Africa policy are as follows: (1) beefing up bilateral economic and trade links in a bid to expand the US economic interests in Africa; (2) keeping to press African
countries to practice "democracy" and respect "human rights" politically, and pursue "liberalization" and "marketization" economically; (3) assisting African countries to solve their internal strife vigorously.