Nelson Mandela: Sub-Saharan Africa and David Cameron

nelson mandela: The last time a British prime minister visited sub-Saharan Africa was in December 2013 when David Cameron attended Nelson Mandela's funeral, according to The Guardian. He had intended to return in the summer of 2016 in the final days of his premiership but the planned visit was abandoned when May took over as Conservative leader earlier than anticipated. The prime minister will bring a trade delegation with her on a chartered RAF Voyager in an attempt to boost Britain's post-Brexit export prospects, although she comes at a time when the government has been accused of a paying insufficient attention to the region. May has never visited sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking ahead of her flight to South Africa on Monday evening, the prime minister said Africa stands right on the cusp of playing a transformative role in the global economy and that a more prosperous, growing and trading Africa is in all of our interests . May in Africa She also signalled that the three-country tour represented an effort to showcase Britain's standing in the world ahead of Brexit. Her only previous trip to the continent was a visit to Tunisia in 2015 in the aftermath of the Sousse hotel terror attack. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.