Dakar, Senegal
11:22 A.M. EDT
MRS. OBAMA: Oh, merci beaucoup. Bonjour.
STUDENTS: Bonjour.
MRS. OBAMA: Comment ça va? Jerejef waa Martin Luther King. Teartu bi rafet-neu. (Applause.) It is such a pleasure and such an honor to be here in the land of teranga. (Applause.)
I want…
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President Barack Obama
Thank you so much.
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the…
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