Africa, 2013

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by chipsticks~
The Obama Diary


August 2006: Senator Barack Obama peers out of what was Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa (Photo: Pete Souza)

Obama also will tour a community center with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town.

The centerpiece of the trip will be the president’s speech at the University of Cape Town, where he will deliver a message that the United States intends to significantly boost its presence on the continent….

…. Michelle Obama, too, will have a full schedule. She will speak to girls at a Senegal middle school and with students at a South African high school, and she will participate in a first ladies summit hosted by the George W. Bush Institute. Former first lady Laura Bush also will participate, along with first ladies of African nations, officials said.

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….. visiting a health clinic in a township near Cape Town, Sen. Obama talks to Sisisipo Mngeni, 3, whose mother Nomathamsanqa Mngeni (top right) is HIV positive




During a visit to the Rosa Parks Library in Soweto, Sen. Obama examines a 1966 photograph of Sen. Bobby Kennedy who visited the famous township during the apartheid era









….. visiting with children at the Milé Refugee camp

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[Aristus]

1. Damn. The right-wingers are going to have a field day with the prison photo.

Soon to appear on teabagger posters...

Don't f*****g care! I'm proud of our President!

[sheshe2]

4. You are right~ in 3...2...1!

They post~ they will be banned!

BOG Aristus!

It's good to talk to you again!

President Obama

[Aristus]

8. Back at you, sheshe2!

[Politicub]

2. I like how Obama talks to students wherever he goes

Maybe because he was a professor or because the future belongs to the young.

Whatever the reason, it is something that makes me admire him even more.

[sheshe2]

5. The baby whisperer~

He nurtures our children as he promotes our future generation.

Our children are our future!

Thanks Politicub!

[Cha]

3. Mahalo for presenting us with the history and history in

the making of the President Barack Obama years, she. We in the BOG, thank you!

And, a Mahalo to Chips for her neverending dedication to The Obama Diary.

This is going to be a wonderful return to Africa for PBO and Michelle. I'm guessing Sasha and Malia are staying around home base?

Aides said Obama would like to visit with Mandela’s family but that he will respect the wishes of the 94-year-old’s relatives to determine if a visit is appropriate while Mandela continues to recover from poor health.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/21/white-house-lays-out-busy-africa-itinerary-for-the-obamas/?wprss=rss_election-2012

From FLOTUS', Malia, and Sasha's 2011 trip to Africa..

South Africa trip offers rare peek at Malia, Sasha

They met living heroes of the movement against South Africa's system of racial separation, including Mandela himself, who spent 27 years in prison for conspiring to abolish apartheid, and former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, another elder of the movement. They met Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, and Antoinette Sithole, whose 13-year-old brother, Hector Pieterson, became a symbol of the fight against apartheid when he was gunned down by police in the black township of Soweto in June 1976 as students protested peacefully against the white government.

Malia and Sasha painted and played dancing games with children at several other stops. At a day-care center in the Johannesburg shantytown of Zandspruit, they and their mother took turns reading Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" to a group of 3- and 6-year-olds. Many people were surprised to hear the girls' voices; they almost never talk aloud in public. Both read their parts with gusto.

http://www.today.com/id/43522063/ns/today-today_news/t/south-africa-trip-offers-rare-peek-malia-sasha/

BOG

[sheshe2]

6. Cha~

Many people were surprised to hear the girls' voices; they almost never talk aloud in public. Both read their parts with gusto.

I do believe that we have a new generation of Baby Whisperers! They are there parents bright and brilliant future. They are our future! Oh Sasha and Malia share the same sweet beauty that there parents do. Inside and out!

The picture...it's a group hug! BOG I love the joy! It just makes you smile.

To love, to joy and to hope! Yes we can!

[Cha]

7. Pretty cool outlook, she~

I do believe that we have a new generation of Baby Whisperers! They are there parents bright and brilliant future. They are our future! Oh Sasha and Malia share the same sweet beauty that there parents do. Inside and out!