Agence France-Presse quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the US-Africa Leaders Summit:
There are no bilateral meetings planned between Obama and any of his African counterparts but a huge White House gala dinner is on the agenda for Tuesday evening.
Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, said this summit will be important for relations between Obama and the continent where his father was born.
But he cautioned that African expectations for Obama’s presidency started out “unreasonably high.”
“The fact is nothing in President Obama’s history other than the identity of his father, nothing in his personal history or his political history, would point to the expectations that were put on his shoulders,” he said.
“Others read into it what they wanted to read into it.”