Poor Barack Obama. His big trip to Africa last week was overshadowed by the very public illness of Nelson Mandela, while a few Africans in Johannesburg even had the temerity to protest against Obama’s second coming to Africa.
In West Africa, Obama was scolded by his host, Senegalese President Macky Sall, for daring to suggest that Senegal should repeal its anti-homosexuality law. President Sall a no-nonsense Muslim told Obama off to his face, noting that America was welcome to legalise homosexuality, but not to export it to Africa.