The First Lady's Trip to Africa

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First Lady Michelle Obama Addresses Young African Women Leaders

First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the keynote address to a U.S.-sponsored Young African Women Leaders Forum from Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, Johannesburg. Forum participants include young women from across sub-Saharan Africa who are leading or involved in social and economic initiatives in their own countries.

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First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the Young African Women Leaders Forum

First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the Young African Women Leaders Forum at the Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady Michelle Obama tours the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum

First Lady Michelle Obama tours the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum with Antoinette Sithole, left, Hector Pieterson’s sister, and other men who led the Soweto protests, at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011. Hector Pieterson was 13 when he was killed by police in 1976 during a street protest triggered by a law requiring students to abandon local languages and study in Afrikaans, the language of the descendants of Dutch settlers. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady Michelle Obama receives a hug while meeting with Young African Women Leaders Forum

First Lady Michelle Obama receives a hug while meeting with Young African Women Leaders Forum members at the Rosa Parks Library in Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady Michelle Obama is greeted in Soweto

First Lady Michelle Obama arrives and is greeted by Sibongile Mazibuko at the Nanga Vhutshilo Community Center in Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady Michelle Obama works on a service project in Soweto

First Lady Michelle Obama works in the garden during a service project at the Nanga Vhutshilo Community Center in Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady, Sasha, Malia, read "Cat in the Hat" in township

First Lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Sasha and Malia, reads “The Cat In The Hat” to children at the Zandspruit Township Daycare Center during an event at the Emthonjeni Community Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 21, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

South African Women Listen to FLOTUS Address

Members of the Young Women Leader’s Forum listen as First Lady Michelle Obama address them at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 21, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady Michelle Obama Tours the Apartheid Museum

First Lady Michelle Obama views the “Sticks Exhibit” at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 21, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

First Lady, Sasha, and Malia Tour Apartheid Museum, South Africa

First Lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Sasha and Malia, tour the exhibits at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 21, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)