India started the process of reaching out to the African continent by convening an India-Africa forum a year ago and the turnout of African political and business leaders was impressive. India has more than 70 billion dollars of trade with Africa and a large Indian origin diaspora — more than a million in South Africa alone. Now Prime Minister Modi has been on a four nation tour of Africa—Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa. He has offered 10 billion dollars in loans and he got a red carpet rousing reception throughout his tour. His outreach to the Indian diaspora was enthusiastically reciprocated as were his offers of trade and joint ventures by all the countries that he visited.
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