US President Barack Obama heads next week to Ghana, on the continent where his father was born, for his first trip as president to sub-Saharan Africa. Africa has not been high on President Obama’s foreign policy agenda in his first six months in office as he wrestles with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea. As an African-American whose father was born in Kenya, President Obama was anxious not to be seen as exaggerating the importance of Africa in US... [read full story]
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