The first time President Obama addressed himself to Africa’s leaders, in Accra, Ghana, in 2009, soon after he took office, he proclaimed, loftily and eloquently, that Africa needed strong institutions, not strong men. Six years later, many of the same strong men were in Washington, from Angola’s Dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodore Obiang Nguema, to Gambia’s eccentric brute, Yaya Jammeh, with not a drop of his victim’s blood on his spotlessly white flowing robes. nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/US-Africa-Leaders-Summit-Washington-Barack-Obama/-/440808/2414008/-/14o802k/-/index.html
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:52:46 +0000
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