Yes, where is the foreign aid money? Where is it? They sure want to know where is the foreign aid money, knowing dam well it isn’t going to accomplish a dam thing. Foreign aid isn’t nothing but another way of enslaving Africans. Giving them false hope that each and every African Countries can survive and property as separate individual Countries. To say the lease that Foreign Aid isn’t going to accomplish a dam thing.

U.S. Foreign Aid, as well as other Countries Foreign Aid policy toward Africa is nothing but a joke. Get real and do something worth while for Africa; by demanding - an unconditional demand - that Africa unite for the good of it people, it political and economic well being.

U.S Foreign Policy toward Africa should be nothing less than - demanding that African unite - an United States of Africa. This should be the U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa.

Thank you

Yes, where is the foreign aid money? Where is it? They sure want to know where is the foreign aid money, knowing dam well it isn’t going to accomplish a dam thing. Foreign aid isn’t nothing but another way of enslaving Africans. Giving them false hope that each and every African Countries can survive and property as separate individual Countries. To say the lease that Foreign Aid isn’t going to accomplish a dam thing.

U.S. Foreign Aid, as well as other Countries Foreign Aid policy toward Africa is nothing but a joke. Get real and do something worth while for Africa; by demanding - an unconditional demand - that Africa unite for the good of it people, it political and economic well being.

U.S Foreign Policy toward Africa should be nothing less than - demanding that African unite - an United States of Africa. This should be the U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa.

Thank you

How can President Obama try and shine the light on Democracy when all his Administration is - is only a chance for white Americans to shit on him. All during the campaign - McCain used every chance to shit all over Obama.

Africa was robbed when Dr Kwane Nkrumah government was overthrown in 1966. No Africa Countries, except for maybe South Africa and Libya, have achieve what Nkrumah had done for Ghana in those short nine years.

Yes that’s Democracy alright. It just like the rest all the others..

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The race has just started for the Continent of Africa.If Africans rely on the rhetorics of those capitalists gurus,we Africans will remain as failures in this 21st century.Will Obama's partnership with Africa allow African countries to sell their Uranium deposits to countries they(Africa)prefers? We wouldn't want Obama to request for a permanent monopoly on his partnership with Africa.

To Johnnie Carson,how does Obama's America intends to partner with Africa? Will this partnership be on a Free Trade Policy or your Capitalist system of Trade?

ask what you can do for africa and not what the world can do for africa.

Some of you guys make it look like Africa's hands are bound behind its back and it is powerless to make up its mind as to with whom to trade. If America extends its hand in friendship and would like to trade and help Africa, what is wrong with that? Africa ALREADY accepts billions of dollars from the USA and other Western countries in aid AND in trade and I think increased trade would help Africa's economy a lot. Many African countries who have sought loans from the IMF and other institutes of lending have over many years established that rapport, so why the fuss with Obama. If Africa gets screwed by foreign countries or persons, it is because the African LEADERS allow it because they have no scruples as far as stuffing their own pockets are concerned.

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As I have seen on this website numerous times, African countries need to do things Africa's way and I understand this.

I see Africa as a continent of opportunity but it can not be westernized and possibly hope that things will turn out okay. Many Africans simply don't want to repeat the westerners mistakes. Westerners who pretend everything is exciting and great and wonderful in the western world need to be watched closely cause obviously they are not all there mentally. Every country has its positives and negatives and the west is no exception. The west's making major contributions to global pollution is just one of many mistakes. Also, the way Americans raise their kids, lord, don't get me started. The fact that most Americans think their rearing of children is superior to the world is testament there is a lack of understanding of culture and its implications to the well being of the whole. That's not understood here in the U.S. American cities is another issue. Crowded to the point of "road rage". Bunching people up in cities - while the rich get the quiet, peaceful, isolated real-estate in Wyoming - is not the type of economic model that should be adopted. Bunching in cities is a disaster waiting to happen from a epidemic/pandemic stand-point. Africans need not build massive metros like the U.S. and Europe.

I don't like the cookie-cutter mentality of the west - particularly the U.S. - focused solely on profits. Each region should have its own flavor. Each ethnicity should contribute its art.

Strengthened relations with Africa from the Obama Administration is good but it should not be just another one of those "going in and westernizing Africa" games. Let Africa be Africa.

Perhaps Carson means doing more on the war mongering department and promoting sale of weapons and ammunitions to African Dictators all in the name of a few more drops of bloody crude oil, while using Egypt as the paragon of “democracy” from which to double-speak on the appeasement message – oh well, whatever, we got the message quite alright and we are ready for that too. In fact, Africa is used to its wars and being the West doormat, so what is new, bring it on….

It's the beginning of the end of criminal Mugabe's illegitimate rule. The strenthening of democracy for Obama starts with the precinct that the world's notorious pariah Mugabe should be booted out. The US Black Caucus has made it well known that lunatic Mugabe is the real obstacle preventing Zimbos from accomplishing their full liberation from the fear Mugabe's thugw & cronies have instilled in people's minds!

Zimbos needs a final push to regain their freedom. The US Black Caucus via Obama will surely give Mugabe the final death blow!!

Mauricet, every nation raises good and bad children and to imply that the USA raises just bad children is not correct - far from it. As we are on the "Zimbabwe" site, take a good look at its president, Mugabe and his thousands of Zanu-PF. They are all people who were raised by their parents and yet have turned out to be murderers, thieves, and torturers, with Mugabe having being credited with the murder of more than 30 thousand of Zimbabweans including farmers and MDC supporters. Are we then to say Zimbabwe only raises a bunch of dictators? Certainly not.

Lets cut out the propaganda fluff.

"His 37 years in the foreign service have included tours as the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. .."

What has he REALLY done for Africa and the Africans in those long 37 years?

Omission: What has he done that makes the future of the African Child brighter? NOTHING. Did he have the power and opportunity and stage from which to highlight the plight of the Africans, historically victimized by the west, to the world? YES.

Commission: Has he failed to do, or advocate for, what protects the Child and the future of Africa from victimization by the likes of Exxon, Cecil Rhodes, Blackwater and AFRICOM and the UK/EU? YES.

Yet has Africa been good to him? YES.

[May it be noted that he was active during the era that the west (and USA in particular) plotted against Africa's eminent sons named Lumumba, Nasser, Nkrumah, Gadaffi, Amin, Nyerere, ..

Yet during his watch, USA sold to Apartheid whites the leg-irons with which to confine the likes of Mandela in bondage. Is he omn record for speaking against the evils of white land-grabbers in Africa or De Beers in particular?

And the Africans are still paid less that $9.50 a day for the work that Americans are paid $20 AN HOUR. What is he doing about it? NOTHING. At best he is irrelevant to the aspirations of Africans and at worst he is like a treacherous rat that blows air at the toes of a sleeping man as it gnaws it way ...

The question may as well be asked by people of goodwill the world over: What does he have against the African Child? What has fueled his enduring pathological hatred for over two generations of the African Child already victimized by the whites for centuries? Can he propose that he is doing for the Africans as much as a Jew in such a position of power would do for Jews and Israel? NO.]

The history of the African Child - and indeed that of exterminated races - is filled with treacherous vermin, within and without, who would deliver the beleaguered people to the enemy.

PATHETIC functionary.

Correction:

" And the African workers in the oil fields of West Africa are STILL paid by USA's oil companies less that $0.50 a day for..."

[And, of course, that does not bother this parading clown ..]

And whose problem is it if the government does not care for its people in making sure that there is a regulated rate of minimum wage so that people are not exploited en mass.

It,s the Intellectuals, Stupid.

Lifting up successful models and encouraging effective governance can be better achieved if African leaders were "intellectuals" like Obama himself. In order to obtain Ghana's results, it is time to end the era of African Big Men, and to insert intellectual leaders like Ata Mills all over the continent.

I can't believe the U.S. government still supports the transitional government in Somalia. That is such a joke. Somalia's government was the most stable it had been in years before we went in there on trumped up charges and created chaos with the Ethiopians. Also, Carson is on the wrong side of Nigeria as well. When oil workers in the Delta are making less than a dollar a day while Exxon-Mobile profits in the tens of billions of dollars, it is damned hard not to root for the underdog. I can't believe he didn't address the gripping poverty and corruption which has caused this mess. I won't buy a drop of gasoline from any American oil company because of their usufruction of the Delta.

Sorry to say but I don't if your boycott of Exxon-Mobile makes a huge difference! Americans drive HUGE gas guzzling SUV's and we STILL drive ALOT even when the price of oil goes up...so trust me..EXXon's profit probably comes primarily from the USA alone! No if Americans STOP driving so much then they WOULD listen!

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i would like to take this opportunity to welcome barack and michelle to africa. welcome home!

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In the light of a symphony there's a charming intention, and also that fortune; there's a little desire and the sound of a beautiful noise....

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