United States President Barack Obama has maintained that all people should see each other as human.
President Obama said every culture and society has a blind spot, adding that there is need to recognise diversity of people.
"I believe that recognising diversity of people is a gift. Every culture, every society has a blind spot. We have to see each other as human and when we see that, we develop," said Obama during an interview with Capital FM.
He said ethnicity should be seen as a coalition of cultures for development but not to divide the people.
He added that despite US having the most diverse population of any large nation in the world, they have managed to overcome the diversity of the citizens with time.
"There's no corner of the world that you will not be confronted with people who are different. We must discuss coalition of cultures. It's a process that Kenya can learn that all people are equal. We will never be perfect but we continue to struggle," said Obama.
The leader said that Young African Leaders Institute (Yali) is important to him because he keeps on meeting incredible young people across the continent, and to make sure they have resources to help them in life.
He said Yali will be the catalyst in forming a foundation of leadership on a lot of issues that are going to be transnational like climate change, terrorism, issues of refugees, issues of peace and reconciliation and inclusive development.
"I am very excited to see the amazing talent that we have been able to mobilise and identify through the Yali programme. This is because young people inherently see things differently," he added.
At the same time, the US President admitted that the biggest challenge he is facing is ending gun violence in his country. This admission comes just a day after a man methodically shot 11 people at a Lafayette movie theatre using a handgun.
