Obama in Africa

On a roadside, women bent double planting new grass, just a few blades at a time, into newly dumped red earth.

Nigeria felt slighted when President Obama overlooked the vast nation on his first African trip as head of state in 2009, instead visiting its shrimp-sized neighbor, Ghana, where he lauded the smaller country’s democratic achievements.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- President Obama will deliver a tribute at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service Tuesday at a stadium in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – As he visited sub-Saharan Africa this week, President Obama often found himself in his predecessor’s shadow.

Maybe having a favorite son in the White House isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

He’s from the same family that produced President-elect Barack Obama.

Whether they found hope, inspiration or just a reason to party, Kenyans celebrated today as they awoke to learn that a man seen here as a native son would be the next U.S. president.

During an emotion-packed visit to his father’s homeland in 2006, Sen.

For years farmers here complained about the broken dirt road through their village, so bumpy that taxi and bus drivers refused to take it.