Vice President Kamala Harris' Historic Africa Visit in Pictures
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Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Ghana
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Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo
Vice President Kamala Harris on the red carpet in Accra, Ghana
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Kamala Harris paid a courtesy call on Oguaahen when she visited Emintsimadze Palace
Vice President Kamala Harris meeting young queen in Ghana
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Cape Coast Castle in Ghana where hundreds of thousands of enslaved African people were tortured and brutalized
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Historic speech at Black Star Gate, Accra for thousands of people
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Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Tanzania
Upon landing in Tanzania, @VP Kamala Harris received flowers from a young boy and girl and briefly spoke to them.
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T-shirts with VP Harris’ photo and skirts with a picture of Tanzania’s first woman president
VP's host, President Samia Suluhu Hassan
"We are launching a new partnership (between the U.S. and Tanzania) on 5G technology and cyber security"
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Zambia
Zambia also has a woman as Vice President.
@VP Harris and President @HHichilema of Zambia had an expanded bilateral meeting
VP Harris and Second Gentleman visited the National Assembly of Zambia. She signed a guestbook and took a photo similar to the one she took when she visited the same place as a kid when her grandfather worked there.
Vice President Kamala Harris toured a farm outside Zambia’s capital that’s using new techniques and technology to boost its vegetable crop
Vice President Kamala Harris @VP
Addressing the climate crisis is a global challenge.
I am proud to have secured $7 billion in private sector commitments that will support climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation across the continent of Africa.
Dispatch from VP inAfrica trip, this one from Akayla Gardner (Bloomberg)
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...and some tweets:
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Heading for home...
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I am releasing a playlist featuring the artists from my travels across Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, including many of the Ghanaian and Ghanaian-American artists I met today like @blacksherif_ and @amaarae.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3wilwfSBDt04SQdclI4eCv
(apologies, some uncaptioned pics may be out of order, under wrong country. corrections appreciated))
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VP Harris speaks at the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, on March 28.
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Thank you
Thank you
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VP at the Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana
This looks like an important visit that further develops progressive partnerships between our two nations.
...economic and otherwise.
Eugene Daniels @EugeneDaniels2 Mar 27
In a press conference with the president of Ghana, VP Kamala Harris says the administration is "guided not by what we can do for" Africa but "what we can do with" the continent.
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For those asking, Vice President Kamala Harris is wearing a dress by Monique Lhuillier at the presidential palace of Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo and First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo
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...great place to feature them.
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Vice President Kamala Harris at an artist's collective in Ghana. She brought @thesherylralph and @idriselba along with her.
During remarks, she talked about the importance of music as "universal language."
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Vice President Harris meets with survivors of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. This year marks 25 years since the tragedy.
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...and you're very welcome, niyad.
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VP Harris has done the U.S. proud. There is the significance of her past, and representing President Biden, that further strengthens our Sub Saharan partnerships.
