With its combination of marquee panelists and ironclad security, the meeting felt like a cross between the World Economic Forum at Davos and a Group of 20 summit meeting. Corporate chieftains, and celebrity guests like former President Bill Clinton, mixed easily with African leaders, while reporters covering the conference were penned behind a rope and allowed to move around only under escort.

None of the African leaders will get one-on-one meetings with Mr. Obama, but the White House arranged for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to meet with the leaders of South Africa and Nigeria.

On Tuesday evening, however, Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed all the leaders to the South Lawn of the White House, where they were serenaded by Lionel Richie and served a dinner of grilled beef with coconut milk, and cappuccino fudge cake with Madagascar vanilla-scented papaya.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/africa/african-leaders-sit-down-with-american-investors.html

I hope something good comes out of this meeting.


Me no wan hear of 'proposed' investment and bla,bla,bla. I want to hear that a cure for EBOLA has been found and that the US is willing to help us with it.

This should counter the pathetic lie by Sahara reporters and APC lies that Obama refused to see GEJ

And here was how the meeting went.

US VP:Bros Zuma you know say 9ja na the no 1 for Africa now. So it will be in the interest of everybody if you step down from G-20.

Zuma: {faints}

GEJ: Well said.


The End

That's a big insult on African leaders. They are treated like plagues such that they don't find them worthy to have a 'one on one' meeting with Barack Obama. Smh.

Amazing how the government cares so much about the approval of the US but when they say something negative about an aspect of governance then their minions here will start singing to hell with the US lol hypocrisy

Where are those "children of anger" who were celebrating on that spurious Sahara reporters thread, this deserves to be on FP, Sahara reporters only cements its reputation as a peddler of junk news.

So African leaders are too "low" for a one-on-one chat with a fellow President (from the US)?

You think Obama will do this if this were an Asian or European leaders summit?

We are really nothing in the eyes of these people.

SenseiX: This should counter the pathetic lie by Sahara reporters and APC lies that Obama refused to see GEJ

Fact is,they were not allow a one on one meeting with President Obama to discuss important issues. They were merely allowed to eat together with Obama.


But na to eat naim carry them go Washington? No be to discuss important issue?

Why shouldn't President of Africa Number 1 Economy have a one-on-one meeting with President of America Number 1 Economy?

Danhumprey: Fact is,they were not allow a one on one meeting with President Obama to discuss important issues. They were merely allowed to eat together with Obama.


But na to eat naim carry them go Washington? No be to discuss important issue?

SR said he was snubbed personally and who told you the American VP is not competent enough to hold a meeting with, since it was,a continental summit focused primarily on investments and not governance issues, it was primarily an opportunity for leaders to interact with top level business leaders in the US, most fortune 500 CEOs attended and business deals were struck

So African leaders were herded like sheep to Washington to get lectured like idiots and still were refused one on one meetings with their host, instead sending his VP to meet with just SA and Nigeria's leaders.......if only they had balls like Egyptian President Sisi who snubbed the gathering and sent his PM instead once he was informed there would be no one on one meetings.
African leaders have no self worth .

LordVarys:
SR said he was snubbed personally and who told you the American VP is not competent enough to hold a meeting with, since it was,a continental summit focused primarily on investments and not governance issues, it was primarily an opportunity for leaders to interact with top level business leaders in the US, most fortune 500 CEOs attended and business deals were struck

We are talking Obama and you are talking VP. Smh.

He may be competent,no doubt. But why didn't Obama had a one on one meeting with them,rather than sending his VP?

SenseiX: This should counter the pathetic lie by Sahara reporters and APC lies that Obama refused to see GEJ

Don't tell me you still subscribe to that trash of a website. Those guys are lucky someone like buhari is not in power. They would have been rotting in jail by now

Danhumprey: We are talking Obama and you are talking VP. Smh.

He may be competent,no doubt. But why didn't Obama had a one on one meeting with them,rather than sending his VP?

For goodness sake its an investment summit and not a state visit, it will do you well to find out differences, heck he even met them on the sidelines of the dinner, the primary purpose of the summit was to interact and get investment deals signed.

Our leaders are eating in another country's presidential palace.
Smh

If I was president, I would send a special adviser to that type of yeye meeting.

Imagine if Buko hari was our president, how would he cope with

cappuccino fudge cake with Madagascar vanilla-scented papaya

Jeeze!!! Buko hari would have demanded fura da no no.