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Obama: Africa Must Take Responsibility, Not Aid

obama_ghana_20090711In a speech to Ghana’s parliament Saturday, Barack Obama told Africans they must match good governance with aid they get from the West, and leaders to take a greater responsibility in stamping out corrupt dictators, disease and war on the continent.

“Development depends upon good governance,” Obama said. “That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That is the change that can unlock Africa’s potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans.”

Obama also spoke of “a new moment of promise” having arrived for Africans. He said America would not impose any system of government, but would increase help for those behaving responsibly.

“The future of Africa is in the hands of Africans.”

Obama arrived in Ghana fresh from the conclusion of a G8 summit where world leaders pledged US $20 billion to improve food security in third world and poor countries.

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  1. ace says

    obama needs to take a good look in the mirror before preaching about how others need to accept “responsibility”.

  2. AC says

    Barry the Kenyan agent knows about corrupt dictators and finds them appealing, yet he tells the Ghana members of parliament to stamp out the kind of people he admires, visits and finds palatable i.e. Ortega, Castro, Chavez and of course Carl Marx.
    The whole Obama mishmash regime was built on corruption;
    The Chicago mob of Marxists who he works for got him elected through the deception of promoting this clown as first “black” president. This was done in 2006 on sixty minutes where it promoted this fraud as the “rising star” that may become the first black president.
    Obams’s Brown shirts by the name of Acorn who voted often and early for this bum.

  3. Endgame says

    What, no “Sorry”?

    He’s slipping.

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