Obama: Fulfill Mandela legacy

President Barack Obama challenged young Africans to fulfill the legacy of South Africa’s beloved former leader Nelson Mandela.

In his own effort to carve out a piece of that legacy, Obama announced a new US-led initiative to double access to electric power across Africa, vowing to help bring “light where there is currently darkness”.

The President, the first African American US head of state, said Mandela’s struggle against apartheid paved the way for freedom and opportunity well beyond South Africa’s borders.