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6 days ago · Barack Obama visited six African countries during his presidency: Ghana, Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, and in 2015, he traveled to Kenya, his father’s homeland. He prioritized these international trips and became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Africa more than any of his predecessors.
2 days ago · Obama traveled to Africa for the second official trip in June 2011, touring Johannesburg, Cape Town and Botswana and meeting with Graça Machel. Obama was also involved with community events in the foreign countries. [199] It was commented by White House staff that her trip to Africa would advance the foreign policy of her husband ...
5 days ago · During a trip to four African countries, the sole black US senator, has just drawn huge crowds in Kenya, his father’s birth country. Several thousand people cheered him in Nairobi as "an African hero" and even more in Nyangoma-Kogelo, the village in west Kenya where his father was born.
1 day ago · Indeed, he was a virtual newcomer to the ways of Washington – a stranger in an even stranger land. While Obama ran on healing the divisions of the past, in retrospect, the first Black president in US history was always going to arouse the ire of the worst of the far-right. Early life. Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Hawaii.
2 days ago · Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08).
1 day ago · Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat currently serving as the 71st United States secretary of state. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. [ 1 ] .
2 days ago · Keyes attacked Barack Obama for voting against a bill that would have outlawed a form of late-term abortion. [40] Race became an issue in the contest between the two black candidates when Keyes claimed that he, not Obama, was the true "African-American". The black voters of Illinois voted 92% for Obama. [41] [42]
