Last updated: 14 august, 2009 - 17:56 GMT

Hillary Clinton in Africa

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The American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has ended her seven nation Africa tour with a final stop-over in the Cape Verde Islands.

Throughout her visit she delivered a consistent message; the United States is ready to work with the continent but Africans should be responsible for their own fate.

She also said that the world's superpower does not have - what she called - a magic wand to solve endemic problems.

So what has this visit achieved? Brooks Spector, a former US diplomat in Africa, spoke to Hassan Arouni from Johannesburg.

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