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Barack Obama's outreach to Africa.

Hello again, I'm Armin Aulney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

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The first African-American president waited until his second term to hold his first African summit. But this

week, he hosted almost 50 African heads of state and American business leaders hoping the U.S. can

catch up in the world's last great emerging market. The president's extraordinary event featured $37 billion in promised development

and investment. It also was about security, internal, and global. Will American business make

good on promised investment? Can the U.S. compete with China's economic foothold? Today's

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Mormon, I'll be back with To the Point.

Africa is more than a troubled continent.

It is vast and diverse with six of the world's ten fastest growing economies.

Can the U.S. get on board? Does it want to?

This week's Africa Summit was designed to reassure both African leaders and American business.

We'll hear what happened.

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