"Lifting up successful models" of democracy in Africa encourages more democracy on the continent, President Barack Obama has told AllAfrica, explaining why he chose Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African country to visit as President of the United States.
Obama met with AllAfrica's Charles Cobb, Jr., Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer at the White House on July 2, in the only interview devoted to Africa he gave prior to a trip including Ghana and the G8 Summit in Italy. Watch the interview (below).
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From across Africa, messages for President Barack Obama, submitted to allAfrica.com, have cited good governance and curbing corruption as necessities for African progress. And they were explicit that democracy is the means to those ends.
AllAfrica explores U.S. policies towards Africa with the administration's top point person on Africa, Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson (right).
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