JOHANNESBURG—Africa is set to feature “quite prominently” on the agenda of the second Trump administration, according to Ronak Gopaldas, an analyst for the Signal Risk firm in Cape Town, South Africa. “There was a sense that Trump ignored Africa during his first term, but the world has changed a lot since then,” he told The Epoch Times. “There’s now a much greater global realization that Africa’s critical minerals are vital to the prosperity of people everywhere, including Americans. “Also, Trump cannot afford to give up more ground to China in Africa. If he does, the American economy will eventually suffer and that will undermine the central promise of his campaign for reelection.”…