How Jimmy Carter touched Africa in a special way

Former US President Jimmy Carter smiles during a book signing event in 2018. 

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In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter hosted Kenya’s Daniel arap Moi at the White House. After dinner was served, two classical pianists, Delphin and Romain, played Thomas Kerr’s ‘Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel.’ 

Carter then praised Kenya for “withstanding” the transition test after the death of independence President Jomo Kenyatta and considered Kenya a “rock, an anchor and a bastion of stability” and secured yet another military base in Africa.