Vice Pres. Kamala Harris will tour Cape Coast Castle, a former slave-trade outpost and location of the so-called 'Door of No Return,' and deliver remarks on the 'brutality of slavery and the African diaspora,' administration officials say.
March 24, 2023, 5:02 AMIn this Dec. 15, 2022, file photo, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a working lunch at the U.S. - Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC., the first Black U.S. vice president, on Saturday begins a historic first trip while in office to Africa, with stops scheduled in Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia during her weeklong tour.and their growing influence on the continent, where countries have forged trade and other ties with Beijing.
In a show of how much Tanzania values their relationship with China, President Samia Suluhu Hassan's first state visit outside of Africa last November was to meetin Beijing where their meeting focused on areas of cooperation such as agriculture trade and infrastructure. And Harris' time in Zambia will be notable as it marks her return to the country for the first time since she was a young girl. In the 1960s, she traveled there to visit her maternal grandfather, who was a civil servant in India and worked for several years in the Zambian government on refugee resettlement issues.
On Tuesday she is set to deliver a "major speech to an audience of young people," tour Cape Coast Castle and "speak about the brutality of slavery and the African Diaspora" from that location as well.
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