Barack Obama's choice received the Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." When Hurricane Katrina destroyed her clinic in Alabama, she treated people for free, or in exchange for oysters.
[Accra, Ghana, July 11. Image via Getty.]
US President Barack Obama (L) and First Lady Michelle Obama (R) wave as they board Air Force One during a departure ceremony in Accra, Ghana, on July 11, 2009.
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[Cape Coast, Ghana, July 11. Image via Getty.]
US President Barack Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia tour Cape Coast Castle, a former slavery outpost, in Cape Coast, Ghana, on July 11, 2009.
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