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Barack Obama on a Common Humanity at the Ghanaian Parliament

July 11, 2009
Now, we all have many identities -- of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality. But defining oneself in opposition to someone who belongs to a different tribe, or who worships a different prophet, has no place in the 21st century. Africa's diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division. We are all God's children. We all share common aspirations -- to live in peace and security; to access education and opportunity; to love our families and our communities and our faith. That is our common humanity.

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Barack Obama became the forty-fourth president of the United States in January 2009, the first African-American to hold the office, and was reelected to the presidency in November 2012. After graduating from Columbia University and Harvard Law...