The president and his family are on a weeklong trip to Africa focused on relations, history
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| President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia stand at the bow as they arrive at the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. |
President Barack Obama and his family visited the presidential palace, a
food security expo, and the House of Slaves where the African slave
trade once flourished, before waving goodbye to Senegal Friday.
President Barack Obama spent two nights in the nation bolstering its
agriculture and global economic trade. Analysts described the trip as
way to overcome disappointment about his muted first-term African
relations, and costly visit – up to $100 million, according to a Washington Post report.
Obama visited the House of Slaves on Goree Island Thursday and pitched
U.S. foreign aid while visiting a food expo behind his Dakar hotel
Friday.
Demonstrators against Obama's policies on Cuba and Afghanistan were marching to the U.S. Embassy
in Johannesburg as he left for South Africa, where a visit to the
ailing former South African president Nelson Mandela has not been ruled
out, according to the AP.
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Supporters welcome President Barack Obama to Senegal along his motorcade
route in Dakar Thursday. The national slogan, printed on the wall
behind them, reads "One People, One Goal, One Faith."
President Barack Obama praised Senegal as "one of the most stable democracies in Africa" at the presidential palace in Dakar.
The leaders hosted a bilateral press conference at the palace before touring the country.
American first lady Michelle Obama and Marieme Faye Sall, first lady of
Senegal, visit the all-girls Martin Luther King Middle School in Dakar
Thursday.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama look out from the
Door of No Return. The door, what African slaves once passed through
when they were shipped off the continent, was part of their tour at the
House of Slaves on Goree Island.
A young girl waits at a barricade as President Barack Obama tours the House of Slaves.
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President Barack Obama greets locals on Goree Island.
Nimna Diayte, head of the Senegalese Federation of Corn Producers,
answers President Barack Obama's questions at a food expo Friday in
Dakar aimed at highlighting food security and nutrition.
President Barack Obama touches rice crops while meeting with farmers,
innovators, and entrepreneurs whose new methods and technologies are
improving the lives of small farmers throughout West Africa.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama depart for South Africa from Dakar aboard Air Force One.
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