Yeah Samake for Mali President

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Mali, as the poorest country in the world, needs leadership and hope. As a BYU Alumnus, Yeah Samake has the foundational values and leadership to lead his country out of the depths of poverty into a new era of productivity and sustainability.

He is gaining growing support from his people. He has been a great mayor... and now can be a great president.

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He is currently campaigning in Mali and large crowds are showing up to give their support. He will most likely win if he can raise enough campaign money to help with running a presidential campaign.

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To me, those small encounters spoke mountains about his character. Yeah Samaké is a man of integrity who cares more about improving the lives of his citizens than he ever cared about power or money.

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Niankoro Yeah Samake has already accomplished much more than many from his small poor village in West Africa – he survived...

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BYU Alumnus to Run for President in Mali

The first LDS leader to be elected president of his country may not be Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman Jr., but rather Yeah Samake, who has recently announced his candidacy for the president of Mali.

Currently serving as the mayor of Ouelessebougou, Samake is in Utah for a few weeks to generate support and plans for his campaign.

"I consider Utah my second home," says Samake, who earned a master's degree and met his wife (a native of India) at BYU, and who has directed the Utah-based Mali Rising Foundation for about six years. "I appreciate and am grateful to so many Utahns for the opportunities and teachings they have given me. The things I have learned here have made me a better businessman, a better person. I am Utahn in culture, so even though this election will be held in Mali, Utah will play a big part of it," he says. (Read More - Deseret News)

BYU Grad is Presidential Hopeful

Yeah Samake was born in a poverty-stricken village in Ouelessebougou, Mali, the eighth of 18 children, to a father who never learned to read but vowed that Samake and his siblings would get an education. (Read More - Salt Lake Tribune)