Photo: Samantha Appleton/White House US President Barack Obama Friday vowed the United States would remain the "stalwart partner" of democracies in Africa as he met with four leaders from French-speaking African nations.
Obama welcomed the new president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara along with Benin's President Boni Yayi, President Alpha Conde of Guinea and President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger to the White House.
He praised them as "four leaders of nations that represent Africa's democratic progress, which is vital to a stable and prosperous and just Africa, but is also critical to the stability and prosperity of the world."
The talks came three months after the end of a violent post-electoral crisis that shook Ivory Coast and mark the first meeting between Obama and Ouattara since the latter took power.
An estimated 3,000 people died in a bloody standoff after Ouattara defeated Laurent Gbagbo in the November polls, but Gbagbo refused to cede power.
"All these leaders were elected through free and fair elections," Obama stressed. "They've shown extraordinary persistence... despite significant risks to their own personal safety and despite enormous challenges, most recently in Cote d'Ivoire."
"But because of their fortitude and the determination of the people to live in democratic free societies, they have been able to arrive at a position of power that is supported by the legitimate will of their peoples, and as such they can serve as effective models for the continent."
Source: AFP
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Watch out because they will lie to you, use you, manipulate you, destroy you and even kill your people; as they are doing not only to the Libyans but to the rest of Africans and Africa just to support their greed. Furthermore, rememeber that they only know Africa and africans when they are in difficulties and problems; besides that, they think that Africans and Africa are absolutely nothing to the world. Last but not least; Africans And Africa, please remember your past histories.
But where's the iron lady?
In order to strengthen these four democratic models, Obama and this team should work hard to see that the African continent is well positioned in reaching standards of good governance and effective rule of law. One way of doing it, is to despose all African despots and make democratic clenasing so that this continent is rid off its decades-long poverty and widespread injustice. These twin woes brought it down to its knees. by so doing, it is there that we will think in terms of economic development and prosperity for all.
" .. Obama and this team should work hard to see that the African continent is well positioned .."
Maybe you missed it. Obama has said the following:
1) He is a proud and patriotic American {that is, he is proud to belong to a people who have, for centuries, plundered Africa and held Africa's people in bondage AND that he is proud to belong to a people who over the past ten years have killed over a million civilians in cold blood - while in pursuit of their wealth. The carnage continues.
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2) He believes in "American Exceptionalism". Now what do you understand by that? Does he mean that he will work hard for Africa (which has the resources that his USA wants to control for its continues prosperity) - so that Africa will be on a fast (or slow) track to attain or surpass USA's and his UK's military and economic supremacy?
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[You are kidding, right? Buddy, in Africa, the USA, UK and the rest of the European countries would rather fund destruction {in the form of usurious micro-lending, land-grabbing, vaccine-sterilization, destructive-drug-testing, structural destruction and slaughter of civilians in Africa/Somalia/Congo/Cote d'Ivoire/Libya} than fund prosperity {through water-boreholes, famine-relief, software-industry/computer-manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, land reclamation.}
[For your own information, Africa has weathered many "leaders" who have may not have had Africa's interests at heart - for instance, Tutu, Kagame, Bokassa, Obama, Museveni, Mandela, Ouattara, Mobutu, Jonathan, Kibaki, .. {In whose service were they?
{Who among them presents the gravest existential threat to the very survival of the African Child on the ancestral African savanna of the ancient civilizations of Africa - beyond the first half of THIS century? Easy. No marks given.}
> > "American Exceptionalism". Now what
> > do you understand by that?
> Yeah! What does it mean?
You can "google" it - that is, search for the phrase online.
Beware. Most of those who write about it believe in it. It is like a christian writing about christianism [or better still, a christian extremist (terrorist Tony Blair) writing about the righteousness of christian crusades (to slaughter innocent civilians by the millions in Iraq.]
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