{"id":31943,"date":"2013-06-27T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31943"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:58:27","slug":"rare-visit-underscores-tangles-in-obama%e2%80%99s-ties-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31943","title":{"rendered":"Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama\u2019s Ties to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/27\/world\/africa\/rare-visit-underscores-tangles-in-obamas-ties-to-africa.html?hp&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama\u2019s Ties to Africa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/s\/michael_d_shear\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael D. Shear<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/k\/nicholas_kulish\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Kulish<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/lydia_polgreen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lydia Polgreen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DAKAR, Senegal \u2014 As a freshman senator from Illinois, <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/lydia_polgreen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> told a packed auditorium in Kenya\u2019s capital, \u201cI want you all to know that as your ally, your friend and your brother, I will be there in every way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he will not be there. President Obama, who Wednesday began his second trip to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office, will skip his father\u2019s homeland once again, a reflection of the many challenges that his administration has faced in trying to make a lasting imprint across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of American investment to promote stability in the volatile region of East Africa, Kenya just elected a president indicted by the International Criminal Court, accused of bankrolling death squads driven by ethnic rivalry. It was the outcome that Washington had desperately tried to avoid, and Mr. Obama\u2019s advisers determined that a photo op of the American president shaking hands with a man awaiting trial was not one they needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just wasn\u2019t the best time for the president to travel to Kenya at this point,\u201d said Benjamin J. Rhodes, Mr. Obama\u2019s deputy national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>For Africans across the continent, the election of an African-American president signaled a transformative moment in their relationship with the United States, one that would usher in a special understanding of their hopes and needs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/27\/world\/africa\/rare-visit-underscores-tangles-in-obamas-ties-to-africa.html?hp&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama\u2019s Ties to Africa The New York Times 2013-06-26 Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Kulish and Lydia Polgreen DAKAR, Senegal \u2014 As a freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama told a packed auditorium in Kenya\u2019s capital, \u201cI want you all to know that as your ally, your friend and your brother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,63,8],"tags":[15048,15046,2640,15047,2327],"class_list":["post-31943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","tag-lydia-polgreen","tag-michael-d-shear","tag-new-york-times","tag-nicholas-kulish","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}