EARLIER in July, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s globetrotting foreign policy brought him to African shores for the second time in as many years. This, for a five-day whirlwind tour of Mozambique, SA, Tanzania and Kenya.Much of the commentary on his two-day stop in SA focused on India’s success in securing SA’s support for New Delhi’s controversial campaign to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Delhi, unlike the rest of the 48-member group, is not a signatory to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and was thwarted in its initial bid for membership earlier in the year.The main aims of Modi’s four-country visit were more wide-ranging, though, covering the gamut from economic to defence and security co-operation. Over the past decade Africa — once a close brother, then a distant cousin — has seen a resurgence in Indian interest.But this has not attracted as much attention as the much larger, and expanding, Chinese footprint on the continent. The July 2016 visit was to a lar...
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