Senegalese Islanders Hope Obama Visit Will Boost Tourism

Publisher:
Agence France-Presse
Publication Date:
25 June 2013
Tags:
Senegal, United States, Canada and Africa

Barack obama begins Wednesday a tour of Africa in Senegal where he and his family will visit Goree Island, a potent symbol of the slave trade off the Senegalese coast.

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