EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE: Africa’s disappointment with Obama

Politico — America’s first African-American president has arguably done less for the continent than his predecessors.

Beneath the ecstatic welcome President Barack Obama will receive when he arrives in his father’s homeland of Kenya on Friday is a lingering sense of disappointment.

More than the first black president, he’s the first African-American U.S. president, and that’s accentuated a frustration among many Africans — and some Americans — who see his record on the continent over the last six-and-a-half years as modest at best and falling short of the successes of his predecessor, George W. Bush…

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