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'World should celebrate Obama'

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Barack Obama's inauguration will be a proud day for the Reverend Walter Fauntroy, one of the black civil rights leaders who marched with Martin Luther King 40 years ago.

At the suggestion of Nelson Mandela, he is organising a special inaugural ball on the night, for "Africa and International Friends".

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