Lesotho

Donald TrumpLejone Mpotjoane

Contradictory Compassion: Race, Rhetoric, and the Re-ordering of US Engagement with Southern Africa

Two apparently discrete events in May 2025—President Donald Trump’s public dismissal of Lesotho as “a country nobody has ever heard of” and his Administration’s unprecedented decision to fast-track refugee visas…

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