United States presidential visits to Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.Six United States presidents have made '''presidential visits to Sub-Saharan Africa'''. The first was an offshoot of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretive World War II trip to French Morocco for the Casablanca Conference. More recently, Barack Obama, the first U.S. president with African American ancestry, visited his father's native Kenya in 2015.Of the 46 African nations identified as sub-Saharan by the United Nations, 14 have been visited by an American president.
Table of visits PresidentDatesCountry or territoryLocationsKey detailsFranklin D. Roosevelt	Gambia20px GambiaBathurstOvernight stop en route to Casablanca.Overnight stop en route from Casablanca.MonroviaInformal visit; met with President Edwin Barclay. French West AfricaDakarStopped en route home to U.S. after conferring with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Tunis, Tunisia, following Tehran Conference and Second Cairo Conference.Jimmy Carter	LagosState visit; Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.Monrovia	Met with President William R. Tolbert, Jr.George H. W. Bush	Mogadishu,Baidoa,Baledogle AirfieldVisited international relief workers and U.S. military personnel.Bill ClintonAccraMet with President Jerry Rawlings; visited a Peace Corps project.Kampala,Kisowera,Mukono,Wanyange,Entebbe	Met with President Yoweri Museveni and with the Presidents of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.KigaliMet with President Pasteur Bizimungu; delivered a public address.Cape Town,Johannesburg	Met with President Nelson Mandela; addressed joint session of Parliament.Gaborone,Kasane	Met with President Quett Masire; visited Chobe National Park.Dakar,Thies,Goree IslandMet with President Abdou Diouf; visited Senegalese peacekeeping troops; delivered several public addresses. Abuja,Ushafa, Abuja	Met with President Obasanjo and addressed the National Assembly.ArushaMet with former South African President Mandela to promote a peace agreement for Burundi; also met with President Benjamin Mkapa.George W. BushDakar,Goree IslandMet with President Abdoulaye Wade.Pretoria	Met with President Thabo Mbeki.GaboroneMet with President Festus Mogae. Toured Mokolodi Nature Reserve.KampalaMet with President Yoweri Museveni.AbujaMet with President Olusegun Obasanjo.CotonouMet with President Yayi Boni.Dar es Salaam, ArushaMet with President Jakaya Kikwete, signed Millenimum Challenge agreement.KigaliMet with President Paul Kagame and dedicated new embassy.AccraMet with President John Kufuor.MonroviaMet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.Barack ObamaAccraMet with President John Atta Mills. Delivered a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Toured a former departing point of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Cape Coast Castle.DakarMet with President Macky Sall.Johannesburg,Pretoria,Soweto,Cape TownMet with President Jacob Zuma and with members of the Mandela family; gave a speech on trade and investment, development, democracy and security partnerships; visited Robben Island.Dar es SalaamMet with President Jakaya Kikwete. Laid a wreath at the memorial to the 1998 United States embassy bombing. Participated in trade and investment discussions; accompanied by business leaders.DakarStopped during return to Washington D.C.JohannesburgAttended the memorial service for former President Nelson Mandela.NairobiAttended the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Also met with President Uhuru Kenyatta.Addis AbabaMet with the government of Ethiopia and addressed the African Union.
See also * Foreign policy of the United States* Foreign relations of the United States
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