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<h2>Barack Obama Visit to Kenya: Its Family Destination</h2>
On his trip to Africa, US President Barack Obama said he was excited about the impending visit to his ancestral continent, which he said had great resilience and enormous potential for growth. His visit to Kenya, marking his first presidential visit to the native place of his father and he will be the first president to visit Ethiopia.
“Despite its many challenges - and we have to be clear-eyed about all the challenges that the continent still faces - Africa is a place of incredible dynamism, some of the fastest-growing markets in the world, extraordinary people, extraordinary resilience,” Obama said at a reception late Wednesday. The continent “has the potential to be the next center of global economic growth,” he said.
He explained about his relationship with Kenya. “As president, I’ve worked so hard to take our relationship with Africa to a new level,” Obama said. “We’ve boosted US exports,
We’ve launched historic initiatives to promote trade and investment, health, agricultural development and food security, Power Africa to promote and expand electrification,” he said.
The president kept on explaining about how under his stint, he has managed to maintain a long enduring relationship between Americans and Africans. “The ties to Africa here in the United States obviously are deep; they are long; they’re complicated,” Obama said.
“There have been times where there have been misunderstandings, and there have been times where there have been suspicions. But when you look at every survey, it turns out that the people of Africa love the United States and what it stands for,” he said.
“Despite poverty, despite conflict, there is strength and resilience there, the opportunities are extraordinary, and we just have to break down the stereotypes and the barriers. Well, we can gauge the opportunities embedded in Africa and how beloved president is gearing up his campaign impeccably for the upcoming 2016 United States presidential elections.