The former US president said his nonprofit foundation could create ‘up and coming leaders’ to take on the baton of ‘human progress’Barack Obama has said he would like to create “a million young Barack Obamas” to take on the baton of “human progress”, during a discussion in Japan about his post-presidential life. “The single most important thing I could do is to help develop the next generation,” he said. The former US president said his nonprofit the Obama Foundation could create a “platform for young, up-and-coming leaders” to exchange information with each other about projects they were working on. “If I could do that effectively, then – you know – I would create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas,” Obama told a conference in Tokyo. Obama also discussed the problem of social media walling off readers according to their political views.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2018 20:03 UTC