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Africans expected more from Obama

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Barack Obama has won his second term in the White House, but reactions in Kenya, the country of his father's birth, have been much more low-key than in 2008. Meanwhile, in Ivory Coast, artists are touring the country with the hope that music may help reconcile the differences of a divided nation. Finally, Cameroon's president Paul Biya is marking 30 years in power, but the opposition accuses him of suppressing criticism while failing to improve living conditions.

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