In deciding to visit Ghana, a former British colony and a leading node in the global slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Obama bypassed the Kenya of his father. Kenya is embroiled in bitter tribal disputes, and saddled with a brazenly corrupt government.
奥巴马决定访问前英国殖民地和十八、十九世纪全球奴隶贸易的重要集散地加纳，而决定避开父亲的祖国肯尼亚。肯尼亚被痛苦的种族冲突所困扰，同时还被迫忍受着厚颜无耻的腐败政府。