US Vice President Harris Harps On Strengthening African Partnership

United States Vice President Kamala Harris on the second day of her Ghana visit on Tuesday stressed the need for a US and African partnership that is propelled by African innovation.

The Vice President delivered her speech from Independence Square, where thousands of people gathered, waving US and Ghanaian flags.

The American number two citizen is in the first leg of her African visit to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia this week.

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Ms. Harris highlighted the continent’s innovation in emergency healthcare supplies, vaccines, farming, and mineral processing and reiterated that America hopes to be partner in progress noting the examplary works and creative development in countries like South Africa and Nigeria.

“We must invest in the African ingenuity and creativity, which will unlock incredible economic growth and opportunities,” Harris noted.

Harris who also supported Ghana’s drive on debt relief and economic development further said:

“We are all in because there are longstanding ties between our people,

“We have an intertwined history, some of which is painful and some of which is prideful and all of which we must acknowledge, teach and never forget.

Her schedule Tuesday includes a visit to Cape Coast Castle, a place where enslaved Africans were once crowded onto overloaded, unsanitary ships headed on the long, dangerous ocean journey to the Americas.

“I am more optimistic than I have ever been about the future and the future of the continent of Africa and, by extension, the world, not only because of the work we undertake in government, not only because of the investments in the private sector

“I am optimistic about the future of the world because of you, the woman who will shatter every glass ceiling.”