Bono says Ghana “rebranding” Africa

Bono says Ghana "rebranding" Africa - Reuters

Fri, Jul 10th, 2009

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Barack Obama arrives in Ghana Friday for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president, it will be the new face of America meeting "the new face of Africa," says Irish rocker and anti-poverty activist Bono.

In a New York Times column Friday hours before Obama arrives in Ghana, Bono wrote that if America's first black president were making a sentimental journey to Africa, "he'd have gone to Kenya," the birthplace of his father.

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