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Obama's Missed Africa Opportunity (CNN)

July 27, 2015

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President Barack Obama's arrival this week in Kenya will be an emotional and historic moment. His visit to the land of his father's birth will be a celebration of the growing ties between African nations and the United States. Meanwhile, Americans and Africans are today being drawn together as never before by our common fight against poverty and conflict, by the threat of terrorism, and most of all by exciting new economic possibilities.

But instead of a victory lap for a new age of closer cooperation, Obama's trip will likely be a reminder of so much unfulfilled promise.

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