And what about the tyranny at home?????

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama

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Haha they changed the title and article! I was going to save the original.

CAPE COAST, Ghana – President Barack Obama traveled in his father's often-troubled home continent Saturday as a potent symbol of a new political era but also as a messenger with a tough-love theme: U.S. aid must be matched by Africa's responsibility for its own problems.

"We must start from the simple premise that Africa's future is up to Africans," Obama said in an address to Parliament that was televised across the continent.

While Obama nodded to the continent's colonial past as a factor in its struggles, he said that Africa's contemporary problems could hardly be blamed on its former European overseers.

"The West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants," he said.

Obama said that the corruption has continued unchecked in too many parts of Africa, with leaders fleecing their nations' treasuries, brutally repressing dissent and creating an environment that allows their functionaries to solicit bribes.

"No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery," Obama said. "That is not democracy, that is tyranny, and now is the time for it to end.

"Africa doesn't need strongmen," he added. "It needs strong institutions."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-obama_12int.ART.State.Edition1.4bf4ed8.html