Africa Watcher

No. 70: President Obama is Going to Kenya: Dumb or Nah?

May 19, 2015

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Witney Schneidman, Fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote this rebuttal of Harvard professor Robert Rotberg’s Politico piece which panned President Obama’s upcoming trip to the country for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit as a bad idea. Quick thoughts: I’m not sure President Obama tacking on a trip to Ethiopia would go over well with Africa watchers,…