President Barack Obama's eight-day tour of Africa continued on Sunday, when the POTUS paid a trip to the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Center in Cape Town and received an impromptu performance from a young MC.
The Youth Center gives space for children in the area to hang out, play sports, or participated in drama, art, after-school help, and music.
President Obama checked out the Center with social rights activist and former Bishop Desmond Tutu himself. The two men, along with a third tour guide, checked out the computer lab where a handful of teens were doing work.
One of the group, 15-year-old Aviwe Mtongana, AKA Catmeister, explained to President Obama how he uses the youth center for various programs, including musical development.
"They teach us how to rap, and write our own lyrics," Aviwe explained.
"Are you a rapper?" President Obama asked.
"Yes, I am a rapper," the young teen said without pause.
The third tour guide coaxed Aviwe into getting out of his chair and spitting a verse for The President, who beamed as the boy flaunted his individual flow, gesticulating while he rapped, "check again, the roof is missing."
"You gotta drop the mic!" The President said, after Aviwe finished his verse. "That's fantastic. Outstanding. I like that."
After his visit to the Youth Center, the POTUS spoke at a press conference.
Sitting next to Desmond Tutu, President Obama said he felt honored to visit the Bishop and his Youth Center.
"[The Center] is appropriately named after somebody who has done heroic work, not only on behalf of peace and justice and the ending of apartheid, but also who, very early on, took on the challenge of HIV/AIDS here in South Africa and around the world," The President said.
President Obama arrived on Monday in Tanzania, an area that USA Today called "a surprise choice," but one that the White House said they decided upon because of its importance as an ally on national security issues.
The POTUS is scheduled to meet with former President George W. Bush for a wreath-laying ceremony on Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy in the East African region.
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