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Luc Mukendi

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Extending a hand to the Africans

Barack Obama’s three misdeeds in Africa

by Éric Toussaint , Damien Millet, Aminata Barry Touré, Emilie Tamadaho Atchaca, Ibrahim Yacouba, Jean Victor Lemvo, Luc Mukendi, Solange Koné, Sophie Perchellet, Victor Nzuzi

20 July 2009

Obama’s revamping of the Unites States’ image is still in full swing. In a speech delivered in Accra before the Ghanaian parliament, he reached out to Africans and vowed to help them defeat under-development. As previously in Cairo and Moscow, Obama’s rhetoric charmed the western media - at (…)