U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the United States will help promote Africa along the path of prosperity and peace, and called on China to emulate Mandela.
Three countries in South Africa's second leg, the U.S. leader and his family visited the bleak former Robben Island (Robben Island) former prison inmates and former president Nelson Mandela tribute, now critically ill in hospital.
Obama later cited Mandela's legacy, became the country's first black president, he spent 27 years in prison was imprisoned in the windswept island in the University of Cape Town's speech.
President, the first African-American head of state, said the struggle against apartheid, Mandela's freedom and opportunity far beyond the borders of South Africa paved the way.
"Nelson Mandela to show us a person's courage moved the world," Obama said.
He appealed to his audience, at the university does not rest until more is the eradication of poverty and disease, and ultimately government corruption and war.
"This is an Energy: Africa rising," he said. "We know that this is progress, but by a fragile basis, we know that this progress is uneven."
Obama said he visited Robben Island (Robben Island) is a particularly powerful him, because he can share the experience with his daughter Maria (Malia), 15, and Sasha, 12.
"I know, they are now a little bit more appreciation for Madiba and others sacrifice his freedom," he said, using Mandela's Xhosa clan name.
Obama by helicopter to the island, which is in the South Atlantic surrounded by shark-infested waters.
And his entourage drove a short distance, the former prison of the lime quarry where Mandela and other prisoners hard work over the years.
Their guidance, 83-year-old anti-apartheid activist and former prisoner Ahmed Kathrada, talking about his time with Mandela and the ANC prisoners.
Current South African President Jacob Zuma also held in Cape Coast infamous prison under the apartheid regime, ending in 1994 with Nelson Mandela's election victory.
"Deeply moved"
On Robben Island (Robben Island), Obama also visited Mandela's prison cell, repeat the last visit, he was in 2006 as a U.S. senator.
After visiting the former prison, and his wife Michelle Obama signed the guest book, Obama wrote: "on behalf of our family, we are deeply moved, stood the courage of people facing down injustice and refused to yield.
"The world is grateful to Robben Island, who reminded us that without restraint or cells can match the strength of the human spirit hero."
The 94-year-old with pulmonary infection Mandela's struggle has always been bleak backdrop, Obama's eight-day trip to Africa. South Africa says his condition "critical but stable."
Obama met (Saturday) in Johannesburg Mandela's relatives supported message, rather than direct access to the frail former president, he has spent the past three weeks in the hospital.
American leaders described Mandela as a "personal hero," and reminded his audience that his first political action in Africa, urging him to divest itself of investments in apartheid South Africa to protest American University.
Obama's aides said, he chose the University of Cape Town, Africa, speaking as his main venue, because the address of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1966, compared to the U.S. civil rights movement to overcome apartheid struggle.
, "Obama said:" It seems unthinkable, at this time, less than 50 years later, an African-American president could solve an integrated audiences in South Africa's oldest university, which will confer the same university honors degree President Nelson Mandela.
Obama's presence not everyone left a deep impression. Some demonstrators gathered outside the university before the speech, holding placards attacking U.S. foreign policy, "Obama's massive killer" and "End drone war."
"More needs to be done."
Obama praised the rapid economic development in Africa, but does not challenge his audience is the content and progress, but so far, advancing lifting poverty in Africa to combat government corruption and to improve health and living standards.
"We've got more work to do," he said, in the middle of Obama's trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
Obama has been trying to overcome the perception that he ignored the mainland Chinese investment and trade has become a major goal.
Many Africans are disappointed that, despite the U.S. president's Kenyan ancestry, his last visit to the mainland, while in office in 2009 in Ghana.
In Cape Town, the President announced a $ 700 million initiative to double access to electricity on the continent, only a third of people have electricity.
"More and more African economy is gaining momentum, and increased trade and investment from the United States is likely to accelerate these trends, creating new jobs and opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic," Obama said.
"Therefore, I urge the United States our game when it comes to Africa," he added, saying that Washington will launch a new trade missions and initiatives to promote investment.
This will include the reconstruction of an agreement to cut back tariffs on African exports to the United States.
In Cape Town, Obama also visited a medical center to highlight U.S. efforts to combat HIV / AIDS in the African continent.
During that visit, another anti-apartheid veteran, retired Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu (Desmond Tutu), told Obama Africans feel an affinity with him, he has high expectations.
"Your success is our success, your failure, whether you like it or not, is our failure," Tutu told him.
 



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