civil rights Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/civil-rights/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 civil rights Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/civil-rights/ 32 32 US marches with Africa, says Obama https://jjcornish.com/2015/07/us-marches-with-africa-says-obama/ Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/07/us-marches-with-africa-says-obama/ President Barak Obama was given a standing ovation at the African Union in Addis Ababa today where he announced a raft of new projects the United States would embark on in the continent of his father’s birth. As the first US leader to address the continental body he ended his two-nation safari with the same […]

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]]> President Barak Obama was given a standing ovation at the African Union in Addis Ababa today where he announced a raft of new projects the United States would embark on in the continent of his father’s birth.
As the first US leader to address the continental body he ended his two-nation safari with the same spirit of candour and optimism that he started it with in Kenya last week.
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US President Barak Obama says he’s confident Africa is marching towards justice and equality.
It’s not a straight line, he says in the giant Chinese-built hall at the African Union headquarters, and sometimes it falters.
But America is with them.
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Obama says Africa must attain justice, respect and human rights in the same way as colonialism was beaten with more than rifles, Americans won their civil rights and South African both black and white triumphed over apartheid.

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