But the limelight was on the first ladies who were the stars, from top left to bottom right: Ida Odinga wife of the Kenyan prime minister, and first ladies Laraba Tandja of Niger, Penehupifo Pohamba of Namibia, Thandiwe Banda of Zambia, Maria da Luz Dai Guebuza of Mozambique, Mathato Sarah Mosisili of Lesotho, Sia Nyama Koroma of Sierra Leone, Adelcia Barreto Pires of Cape Verde, Chantal Biya of Cameroon, Ana Paula Dos Santos of Angola, Inkhosikati LaMbikiza of Swaziland and Turai Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria.

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