成人快手 Minute: On Barack Obama's Mandela Lecture
Barack Obama was chosen to deliver the 2018 Nelson Mandela lecture - to mark what would have been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday. Some South Africans aren't happy.
Part of this discomfort is a consequence of President Obama's role in the Libyan war, which deposed longstanding Mandela ally Muammar Gaddafi. Nelson Mandela had once declared, "those who feel irritated by our friendship with President Gaddafi can go jump in the pool".
成人快手 southern Africa correspondent Nomsa Maseko has more.
(Photo: Former US President Barack Obama (R) and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) during the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, Credit: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
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