African Leader to Speak on Obama and Africa
Festus Mogae, former president of Botswana, delivers BU address
Festus Mogae, former president of Botswana, delivered his inaugural address as the Boston University African Presidential Archives and Research Center’s (APARC) sixth African President-in-Residence at the School of Management on April 14. He spoke on Democratization in Africa: The Case of Botswana, and What Africans Expect from the Obama Administration.
Mogae was the president of the Republic of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. Last year he received the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
“Given the turn that we have seen in U.S.-Africa relations,” says APARC Director Charles Stith, a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania, “starting with President Clinton and the African Growth and Opportunity Act and expanding under the Bush administration, and as the Obama administration inaugurates its new era of engagement, a statesman of President Mogae’s stature can provide an interpretive framework for Americans to understand the importance of engaging Africa in new ways.”
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