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5 black male role models worthy of celebrating on Fathers’ Day

President Barack Obama is photographed during a presidential portrait sitting for an official photo in the Oval Office, Dec. 6, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

1.      Barack Obama

The 44th President of America will never go out from the list of black role models. The name is here to stay because of the accomplishments accompanying it. The former and the first black president of the United States left footprints for future generations to walk in. He demonstrated by his life that nothing can come in your way if you decide to pursue your dreams wholeheartedly.

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Elikem M. Aflakpui

Elikem M. Aflakpui is a Ghanaian writer and columnist. He writes the column named Writing About Writing in the Business and Financial Times Newspaper every Friday. His fiction stories have also been published in two anthologies collated by the Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing.

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