US President Barack Obama touching a bone fragment of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid discovered in 1974 by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson in Ethiopia. Alongside Obama are Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (right) and Zeresenay Alemseged (second from left), head of the California Academy of Sciences. Photo: AFP
Barack Obama came to Africa partially to connect with the continent of his forefathers.
On July 26, he met an ancestor of an altogether different kind: "Lucy", the 3.2 million-year-old partial skeleton of a hominid discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
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