Kanye West Meets Uganda President, Talks Building Hospitality School

WI Web StaffOctober 16, 2018

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US rapper Kanye West (L) speaks to medias as he visits an orphanage run by Uganda Womens Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) in the town of Masulita, about 40 kilometres south west of Kampala, on October 16, 2018. - Rap megastar West is in the east African nation to finish recording his ninth studio album "Yandhi," which was meant to drop two weeks ago, until his surprise decision to go and record in Africa to "feel the energy." (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

Kanye West, fresh off last week’s controversial visit to the White House, met with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni while in Africa with his wife Kim Kardashian West to work on a new album.

The couple met Monday with Museveni at the State House in Entebbe, where they gifted a pair of sneakers to the president. West reportedly talked with Museveni about his interest in creating a tourism and hospitality school for higher education.

“I held fruitful discussions with the duo on how to promote Uganda’s tourism and the arts. I thank Kanye for the gift of white sneakers,” Museveni tweeted afterwards.