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The USA in Africa
@TheUSAinAfrica
A curation of American government activities in Africa shown through the photos of the US National Archives. Historic to mundane.
Jun 15, 2021 • 46 tweets • 19 min read
Time passes and stories are forgotten.

This thread remembers a young African-American US Congressman, Mickey Leland, who made an outsized impact in his short 44 years and shows the might of the world's superpower in a different way.

A Search & Rescue mission in #Ethiopia. 🇺🇸🛫🇪🇹 On August 7th, 1989 Congressman Leland was leading a group of 15 to refugee camps along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border in his role as chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger, which he had established 5 years before. It was his 6th trip to the Gambela region.