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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama, the only African-American in the Senate, paid tribute Wednesday to South Africans' fight for freedom, saying they helped inspire his own political career.
With handshakes, hugs and his congenial grin, the Illinois Democrat toured Soweto, the township where white rulers once tried to confine by night the blacks who worked in their homes, offices and mines by day.
Obama arrived in South Africa on Sunday, the first stop on a sentimental tour of the continent of his late father — a goat herder who went on to become a Harvard-educated government economist for his native Kenya.
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