WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama made his first trip as president to Africa in July 2009, he memorably told lawmakers in Ghana that “Africa doesn’t need strongmen; it needs strong institutions.” Next week, several of those strongmen will travel to Washington as part of a landmark gathering of nearly 50 African leaders.
The question, Africa experts are saying, is what will Mr. Obama tell them? “Are we going to have a strong message for these strongmen?” said Vera Songwe, the World Bank’s country director for Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania.
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