Analysis - Shadowed by Bush, Obama seeks Africa legacy makeover


  • World
  • Wednesday, 06 Aug 2014

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama made his first extended trip to Africa last year as the world's most powerful leader, he tried to assuage a continent largely disappointed in its famous favourite son.

The first African-American president, Obama had given scant focus to his father's ancestral home, drawing unflattering comparisons with George W. Bush, whose efforts to fight HIV/AIDS made him a hero on the continent.

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