Obama in Africa
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On a roadside, women bent double planting new grass, just a few blades at a time, into newly dumped red earth.
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Nigeria felt slighted when President Obama overlooked the vast nation on his first African trip as head of state in 2009, instead visiting its shrimp-sized neighbor, Ghana, where he lauded the smaller country’s democratic achievements.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- President Obama will deliver a tribute at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service Tuesday at a stadium in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – As he visited sub-Saharan Africa this week, President Obama often found himself in his predecessor’s shadow.
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Maybe having a favorite son in the White House isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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He’s from the same family that produced President-elect Barack Obama.
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Whether they found hope, inspiration or just a reason to party, Kenyans celebrated today as they awoke to learn that a man seen here as a native son would be the next U.S. president.
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During an emotion-packed visit to his father’s homeland in 2006, Sen.
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For years farmers here complained about the broken dirt road through their village, so bumpy that taxi and bus drivers refused to take it.
