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Is Obama Africa’s saviour?
Africa is rich in natural resources like oil, gold, diamonds, platinum and yet millions of African people live in abject poverty. The global economic and climate crisis have made life even harder.
At the recent G8 meeting in Italy, African leaders and members of civil society voiced concerns over the promises made in previous G8 meetings of aid and assistance that have yet to materialise.
Obama’s message about Africa depresses me; he is very likely the American President the most literate in African issues ever, yet he recycles mantras from the Bush and previous regimes. Change? Hardly.He may have gotten his Harvard Law degree, but perhaps he could have taken a history course or two. Barack Obama doesn’t care about black people: http://aglobalhistory.wordpress.com/2009 /07/26/barack-obama-doesnt-care-about-b lack-people-africa-and-the-results-of-hi storic-myopia/