Follow Mahatma: Obama

August 05, 2010 03:17 am | Updated 03:17 am IST - Washington:

U.S. President Barack Obama has asked young leaders of Africa to follow Mahatma Gandhi to bring the changes they want in the continent.

“One of the things that I think everybody here has to really internalise is the notion that, you know, I think it was [Mahatma] Gandhi who once said, you have to be the change that you seek, you have to be the change that you seek,” he told the Young African Leaders Forum, which he had convened in White House.

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