Sunday, August 5, 2012

Joyce Banda, 2nd Woman President in Africa, Welcomes Hillary Clinton, 1st SOS Ever To Visit Malawi!

We all know that Ellen Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia was the first woman elected president of an African nation.  Joyce Banda was the second.  This morning, she welcomed Hillary Clinton, the first U.S. secretary of state ever to visit Malawi.   Mme. Secretary was greeted at the Lilongwe Kamuzu International Airport with a song and dance performance.  She proceeded to the heart of the capital to meet with President Banda,  visited a girls' camp run by the Peace Corps where she donned a traditional skirt with the help of a camper, and stopped by a cooperative dairy where she also got dressed up and  tried a few traditional dance steps with the chair of the co-op whose members serenaded her and danced.  Hillary Clinton seems unable to keep from dancing when she visits Africa. Finally, of course, she stopped by the embassy to greet the staff.