Young Africans Tell US President...
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President Obama came to Africa to deliver a "blunt message" to its politicians. But young people in Kenya and Ethiopia had plenty to say to Mr Obama about the state of America
"Tough love" has been a theme of President Obama's visit to East Africa .
The moments where he really came alive on this trip were not just when he talked of his love for Africa , but also when he spoke passionately about human rights.Standing beside the Kenyan president he likened the pursuit of gay rights in Africa to the civil rights struggle in the US
To an enthralled crowd in a stadium in Nairobi Kenya America
"I
always say that what makes America
Kenyans and
Ethiopians were overwhelmingly enthusiastic, even fanatical, about their
returning East African son, but there were many who felt America
"Most
Americans think about what needs to change in other countries but they need to
solve their own problems," Shiferaw Tilahun, tells me in a coffee shop in Addis Ababa
"They are
interested in other people's problems but they don't care about black people in
their own country," Shiferaw says. "Most of our black brothers and
sisters are suffering in the US.
It was clear in both countries that the issue of race, more than any other, had damaged people's perceptions of the US Kenya , their feeling about America
