President Obama: Hey! 奥巴马总统：嘿！
Audience: Hey! 观众：嘿！
President Obama: Habari Zenu? ["How are you?"] 奥巴马总统：Habari Zenu？["你们好吗？"]
Audience: Nzuri sana! ["Very good!"] 观众：Nzuri sana！["非常好！"]
President Obama: Wakenya mpo? It is great to be back in Kenya. Thank you so much for this extraordinary welcome. I know it took a few years, but as President I try to keep my promises, and I said I was going to come, and I'm here. 奥巴马总统：Wakenya mpo？能回到肯尼亚真是太好了。非常感谢你们热情非凡的欢迎。我知道这花了好几年时间，但作为总统，我努力信守承诺——我说过我会来的，现在我来了。
Everybody, go ahead and have a seat. I'm going to be talking for a while. Relax. 各位，请坐。我要讲一会儿。放松点。
I want to thank my sister, [Dr.] Auma [Obama], for a wonderful introduction. I'm so glad that she could be with us here today. And it was -- as she said, it was Auma who first guided me through Kenya almost 30 years ago. 我要感谢我的姐姐奥玛·奥巴马博士，感谢她精彩的介绍。我很高兴她今天能和我们在一起。正如她所说，近三十年前，正是奥玛第一次带我游历肯尼亚。
To President Kenyatta, I want to thank you once again for the hospitality that you've shown to me -- and for our work together on this visit, and for being here today. It's a great honor. 感谢肯雅塔总统，再次感谢您对我的盛情款待——感谢您在这次访问中与我的合作，也感谢您今天的出席。我深感荣幸。
I am proud to be the first American President to come to Kenya -- and, of course, I'm the first Kenyan-American to be President of the United States. That goes without saying. 我很自豪能成为第一位访问肯尼亚的美国总统——当然，我也是第一位肯尼亚裔的美国总统。这是不言而喻的。
Audience Member: I love you, Obama! 观众成员：我爱你，奥巴马！
President Obama: I love you back. I do. 奥巴马总统：我也爱你。真的。
But, as Auma was saying, the first time I came to Kenya, things were a little different. When I arrived at Kenyatta Airport, the airline lost my bags. That doesn't happen on Air Force One. They always have my luggage on Air Force One. 但是，正如奥玛所说，我第一次来肯尼亚时，情况大不相同。当我抵达肯雅塔机场时，航空公司弄丢了我的行李。这种事在空军一号上可不会发生。空军一号上我的行李总在那儿。
As she said, Auma picked me up in an old Volkswagon Beetle, and think the entire stay I was here it broke down four or five times. We'd be on the highway, we'd have to call the jua kali -- he'd bring us tools. We'd be sitting there, waiting. And I slept on a cot in her apartment. Instead of eating at fancy banquets with the President, we were drinking tea and eating Ugali -- and Sukuma Wiki. 正如她所说，奥玛开着一辆老式大众甲壳虫来接我，我记得在我停留的整个期间，那辆车坏了四五次。我们在公路上抛锚，不得不叫路边修理工——他会带着工具过来。我们就坐在那儿等着。我睡在她公寓的一张折叠床上。我们没有和总统一起参加豪华宴会，而是喝茶、吃乌伽黎——还有苏库玛·维基。
So there wasn't a lot of luxury. Sometimes the lights would go out. They still do -- is that what someone said? But there was something more important than luxury on that first trip, and that was a sense of being recognized, being seen. 所以那时候没有多少奢华可言。有时候会停电。现在还会——是有人这么说吗？但在那第一次旅行中，有比奢华更重要的东西，那就是一种被认可、被看见的感觉。
I was a young man and I was just a few years out of University. I had worked as a community organizer in low-income neighborhoods in Chicago. I was about to go to law school. And when I came here, in many ways I was a Westerner, I was an American, unfamiliar with my father and his birthplace, really disconnected from half of my heritage. 我当时是个年轻人，大学毕业没几年。我曾在芝加哥的低收入社区做过社区组织者。我正要去读法学院。当我来到这里时，在很多方面我是一个西方人，一个美国人，对父亲和他的出生地并不熟悉，与自己一半的血脉几乎没有联系。
And at that airport, as I was trying to find my luggage, there was a woman there who worked for the airlines, and she was helping fill out the forms, and she saw my name and she looked up and she asked if I was related to my father, who she had known. And that was the first time that my name meant something. And that was recognized. 在那个机场，当我试图寻找行李时，有一位在航空公司工作的女士，她帮我填写表格，她看到我的名字后抬起头，问我是否与我父亲有亲戚关系——她认识我父亲。那是我第一次感受到我的名字有了分量。那是一种被认可的感觉。
And over the course of several weeks, I'd meet my brothers and aunts and uncles. I traveled to Alego, the village where my family was from. I saw the graves of my father and my grandfather. And I learned things about their lives that I could have never learned through books. And in many ways, their lives offered snapshots of Kenya's history, but they also told us something about the future. 在几周的时间里，我见到了我的兄弟、姑姑和叔叔们。我去了阿莱戈，那是我家族的故乡。我看到了父亲和祖父的坟墓。我了解到他们生活中的许多事，那些是我从书本上永远学不到的。在很多方面，他们的人生是肯尼亚历史的缩影，但也向我们诉说着未来。
My grandfather, for example, he was a cook for the British. And as I went through some of his belongings when I went up-country, I found the passbook he had had to carry as a domestic servant. It listed his age and his height, his tribe, listed the number of teeth he had missing. And he was referred to as a boy, even though he was a grown man, in that passbook. 比如我的祖父，他曾是英国人的厨师。当我去乡下翻看他的遗物时，我发现了他作为家仆必须携带的通行证。上面写着他的年龄、身高、部落，还有他缺了几颗牙。在那本通行证里，他被称作"男孩"，尽管他已是一个成年男人。
And he was in the King's African Rifles during the Second World War, and was taken to the far reaches of the British Empire -- all the way to Burma. And back home after the war, he was eventually detained for a time because he was linked to a group that opposed British rule. 二战期间，他在国王非洲步枪团服役，被派往大英帝国的遥远边陲——远至缅甸。战争结束回国后，他曾一度被关押，因为他与一个反对英国统治的组织有联系。
And eventually he was released. He forged a home for himself and his family. He earned the respect of his village, lived a life of dignity -- although he had a well-earned reputation for being so strict that everybody was scared of him and he became estranged from part of his family. 最终他被释放了。他为自己和家人建立了家园。他赢得了村民的尊重，过着有尊严的生活——尽管他有一个名副其实的名声，就是过于严厉，人人都怕他，而且他与部分家人关系疏远。
So that was his story. And then my father came of age as Kenyans were pursuing independence, and he was proud to be a part of that liberation generation. And next to my grandfather's papers, I found letters that he had written to 30 American universities asking for a chance to pursue his dream and get a scholarship. And ultimately, one university gave him that chance -- the University in Hawaii. And he would go on to get an education and then return home. 这就是他的故事。然后我父亲长大成人时，肯尼亚人正在追求独立，他为能成为那一代解放者中的一员而自豪。在祖父的文件旁，我发现了他写给三十所美国大学的信，请求获得奖学金去追逐梦想。最终，有一所大学给了他机会——夏威夷大学。他继续求学，然后回到了家乡。
And here, at first he found success as an economist and worked with the government. But ultimately, he found disappointment -- in part because he couldn't reconcile the ideas that he had for his young country with the hard realities that had confronted him. 回到这里后，他起初作为经济学家取得了成功，并在政府任职。但最终，他遭遇了失望——部分原因是他无法将自己对这个年轻国家的理想与摆在面前的残酷现实调和起来。
And I think sometimes about what these stories tell us, what the history and the past tell us about the future. They show the enormous barriers to progress that so many Kenyans faced just one or two generations ago. 我有时会思考这些故事告诉我们什么，历史和过去对未来有什么启示。它们展现了仅仅一两代人之前，许多肯尼亚人在进步道路上面临的巨大障碍。
This is a young country. We were talking last night at dinner -- the President's father was the first President. We're only a generation removed. And the daily limitations -- and sometimes humiliations -- of colonialism -- that's recent history. The corruption and cronyism and tribalism that sometimes confront young nations -- that's recent history. 这是一个年轻的国家。我们昨晚在晚宴上聊到——总统的父亲是第一任总统。我们离那一代人并不遥远。殖民统治下的日常限制，有时甚至是屈辱——那都是不久前的历史。年轻国家有时面临的腐败、任人唯亲和部落主义——那也都是不久前的历史。
But what these stories also tell us is an arch of progress -- from foreign rule to independence; from isolation to education, and engagement with a wider world. It speaks of incredible progress. So we have to know the history of Kenya, just as we Americans have to know our American history. All people have to understand where they come from. But we also have to remember why these lessons are important. 但这些故事也告诉我们一条进步的轨迹——从外族统治到独立；从封闭隔绝到接受教育、与更广阔的世界交往。这是惊人的进步。所以我们必须了解肯尼亚的历史，就像我们美国人必须了解美国历史一样。所有民族都必须理解自己从何而来。但我们也必须记住，这些经验教训为什么重要。
We know a history so that we can learn from it. We learn our history because we understand the sacrifices that were made before, so that when we make sacrifices we understand we're doing it on behalf of future generations. 我们了解历史，是为了从中学习。我们学习历史，是因为我们理解前人做出的牺牲，这样当我们做出牺牲时，我们明白自己是在为子孙后代而付出。
There's a proverb that says, "We have not inherited this land from our forebears, we have borrowed it from our children." In other words, we study the past so it can guide us into the future, and inspire us to do better. 有一句谚语说："我们并非从祖先那里继承了这片土地，而是从子孙那里借来的。"换句话说，我们研究过去，是为了让它指引我们走向未来，激励我们做得更好。
And when it comes to the people of Kenya -- particularly the youth -- I believe there is no limit to what you can achieve. A young, ambitious Kenyan today should not have to do what my grandfather did, and serve a foreign master. You don't need to do what my father did, and leave your home in order to get a good education and access to opportunity. Because of Kenya's progress, because of your potential, you can build your future right here, right now. 对于肯尼亚人民——尤其是年轻人——我相信你们的前途不可限量。今天，一个有抱负的肯尼亚年轻人不必像我祖父那样，去侍奉外国主人。你们不必像我父亲那样，为了接受良好教育和获得机遇而背井离乡。因为肯尼亚的进步，因为你们的潜力，你们可以就在这里、就在当下打造自己的未来。
Now, like any country, Kenya is far from perfect, but it has come so far in just my lifetime. After a bitter struggle, Kenyans claimed their independence just a few years after I was born. And after decades of one party-rule, Kenya embraced a multi-party system in the 1990s, just as I was beginning my own political career in the United States. 如今，和任何国家一样，肯尼亚远非完美，但在我的有生之年，它已经取得了长足的进步。经过艰苦斗争，肯尼亚人在我出生几年后赢得了独立。经过几十年的一党执政，肯尼亚在二十世纪九十年代接受了多党制，那时我也刚刚在美国开始自己的政治生涯。
Tragically, just under a decade ago, Kenya was nearly torn apart by violence at the same time that I was running for my first campaign for President. And I remember hearing the reports of thousands of innocent people being killed or driven from their homes. And from a distance, it seemed like the Kenya that I knew -- a Kenya that was able to reach beyond ethnic and tribal lines -- that it might split apart across those lines of tribe and ethnicity. 可悲的是，就在不到十年前，肯尼亚险些被暴力撕裂，而当时我正在竞选我的第一任总统。我记得听到报道说，成千上万无辜的人被杀害或流离失所。从远处看，我所认识的那个肯尼亚——一个能够跨越族裔和部落界限的肯尼亚——似乎可能沿着部落和族裔的界线分崩离析。
But look what happened. The people of Kenya chose not to be defined by the hatreds of the past -- you chose a better history. The voices of ordinary people, and political leaders and civil society did not eliminate all these divisions, but you addressed the divisions and differences peacefully. 但看看发生了什么。肯尼亚人民选择不被过去的仇恨所定义——你们选择了更好的历史。普通民众、政治领袖和公民社会的声音并没有消除所有分歧，但你们和平地处理了分歧和差异。
And a new constitution was put in place, declaring that "every person has inherent dignity -- and the right to have that dignity respected and protected." A competitive election went forward -- not without problems, but without the violence that so many had feared. In other words, Kenyans chose to stay together. You chose the path of Harambee. 一部新宪法得以制定，宣告"每个人都有与生俱来的尊严——以及尊严受到尊重和保护的权利"。一场竞争性的选举顺利举行——并非没有问题，但没有出现许多人担心的暴力。换句话说，肯尼亚人选择了团结在一起。你们选择了哈兰比之路。
And in part because of this political stability, Kenya's economy is also emerging -- and the entrepreneurial spirit that people rely on to survive in the streets of Kibera can now be seen in new businesses across the country. From the city square to the smallest villages, MPesa is changing the way people use money. 部分由于这种政治稳定，肯尼亚的经济也在蓬勃发展——人们赖以在基贝拉街头生存的创业精神，如今在全国各地的新兴企业中都能看到。从城市广场到最偏远的村庄，移动支付正在改变人们使用金钱的方式。
New investment is making Kenya a hub for regional trade. When I came here as a U.S. senator, I pointed out that South Korea's economy was the same as Kenya's when I was born, and then was 40 times larger than Kenya's. Think about that. It started at the same place -- South Korea had gone here, and Kenya was here. But today, that gap has been cut in half just in the last decade. Which means Kenya is making progress. 新的投资使肯尼亚成为区域贸易中心。当我还是美国参议员时，我曾指出，在我出生时，韩国的经济规模与肯尼亚相当，后来韩国经济是肯尼亚的四十倍。想想看。起点相同——韩国走到了这里，肯尼亚还在那里。但今天，这一差距在过去十年里已经缩小了一半。这意味着肯尼亚正在取得进步。
And meanwhile, Kenya continues to carve out a distinct place in the community of nations: As a source of peacekeepers for places torn apart by conflict, a host for refugees driven from their homes. A leader for conservation, following the footprints of Wangari Maathai. 与此同时，肯尼亚继续在国际社会中确立独特地位：作为维和人员的来源国，前往被冲突撕裂的地方；作为难民的收容国，接纳被迫逃离家园的人们。作为环境保护的领导者，追随旺加里·马塔伊的足迹。
Kenya is one of the places on this continent that truly observes freedom of the press, and their fearless journalists and courageous civil society members. And in the United States, we see the legacy of Kip Keino every time a Kenyan wins one of our marathons. And maybe the First Lady of Kenya is going to win one soon. I told the President he has to start running with his wife. We want him to stay fit. 肯尼亚是非洲大陆上真正践行新闻自由的地方之一，拥有无畏的记者和勇敢的公民社会成员。在美国，每当肯尼亚选手赢得我们的马拉松比赛，我们都会想起基普·凯诺的传奇。也许肯尼亚第一夫人很快也会赢一场。我告诉总统，他得开始和妻子一起跑步了。我们希望他保持健康。
So there's much to be proud of -- much progress to lift up. It's a good-news story. But we also know the progress is not complete. There are still problems that shadow ordinary Kenyans every day -- challenges that can deny you your livelihood, and sometimes deny you lives. 所以有很多值得骄傲的地方——有很多进步值得弘扬。这是一个好消息。但我们也知道，进步尚未完成。仍然有一些问题每天困扰着普通肯尼亚人——这些挑战可能夺走你们的生计，有时甚至夺走生命。
As in America -- and so many countries around the globe -- economic growth has not always been broadly shared. Sometimes people at the top do very well, but ordinary people still struggle. Today, a young child in Nyanza Province is four times more likely to die than a child in Central Province -- even though they are equal in dignity and the eyes of God. That's a gap that has to be closed. 与美国——以及全球许多国家一样，经济增长并不总能被广泛分享。有时顶层的人过得很好，但普通民众仍在挣扎。今天，尼安萨省的幼儿死亡概率是中央省儿童的四倍——尽管他们在尊严上和上帝眼中是平等的。这是一个必须缩小的差距。
A girl in Rift Valley is far less likely to attend secondary school than a girl in Nairobi. That's a gap that has to be closed. Across the country, one study shows corruption costs Kenyans 250,000 jobs every year -- because every shilling that's paid as a bribe could be put into the pocket of somebody who's actually doing an honest day's work. 裂谷省的女孩上中学的可能性远低于内罗毕的女孩。这是一个必须缩小的差距。在全国范围内，一项研究表明，腐败每年使肯尼亚损失二十五万个工作岗位——因为每先令的贿赂，本可以放进某个诚实劳动的人的口袋里。
And despite the hard-earned political progress that I spoke of, those political gains still have to be protected. New laws and restrictions could close off the space where civil society gives individual citizens a voice and holds leaders accountable. Old tribal divisions and ethnic divisions can still be stirred up. I want to be very clear here -- a politics that's based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart. It is a failure -- a failure of imagination. 尽管我刚才谈到了来之不易的政治进步，但这些政治成果仍需保护。新的法律和限制可能会压缩公民社会的空间，而公民社会赋予公民个人发言权，并让领导人承担责任。旧的部落分裂和族裔分歧仍可能被挑起。我想在这里说得非常清楚——一种仅仅基于部落和族裔的政治，是注定要撕裂一个国家的。这是一种失败——想象力的失败。
Of course, here, in Kenya, we also know the specter of terrorism has touched far too many lives. And we remember the Americans and Kenyans who died side by side in the attack on our embassy in the '90s. We remember the innocent Kenyans who were taken from us at Westgate Mall. We weep for the nearly 150 people slaughtered at Garissa -- including so many students who had such a bright future before them. We honor the memory of so many other innocent Kenyans whose lives have been lost in this struggle. 当然，在肯尼亚，我们也知道恐怖主义的幽灵已经触及了太多人的生命。我们记得九十年代大使馆遇袭中并肩牺牲的美国人和肯尼亚人。我们记得在韦斯特盖特购物中心被夺走生命的无辜肯尼亚人。我们为加萨惨案中被屠杀的近一百五十人哀悼——其中有那么多前途光明的学生。我们向在这场斗争中丧生的无数其他无辜肯尼亚人致以敬意。
So Kenya is at a crossroads -- a moment filled with peril, but also enormous promise. And with the rest of my time here today, I'd like to talk about how you can seize the moment, how you can make sure we leave behind a world that's better -- a world that we borrowed from our children. 因此，肯尼亚正处在十字路口——一个充满危险但也蕴含巨大希望的时刻。在今天剩下的时间里，我想谈谈你们如何抓住这个时刻，如何确保我们留下一个更美好的世界——一个我们从子孙那里借来的世界。
When I first came to sub-Saharan Africa as President, I made clear my strong belief that the future of Africa is up to Africans. For too long, I think that many looked to the outside for salvation and focused on somebody else being at fault for the problems of the continent. 当我第一次以总统身份访问撒哈拉以南非洲时，我明确表达了我的坚定信念：非洲的未来取决于非洲人。长期以来，我认为许多人寄望于外部来寻求救赎，把非洲大陆的问题归咎于他人。
And as my sister said, ultimately we are each responsible for our own destiny. And I'm here as President of a country that sees Kenya as an important partner. I'm here as a friend who wants Kenya to succeed. 正如我姐姐所说，归根结底，我们每个人都要为自己的命运负责。我作为一个视肯尼亚为重要伙伴的国家的总统来到这里。我作为一个希望肯尼亚成功的朋友来到这里。
And the pillars of that success are clear: Strong democratic governance; development that provides opportunity for all people and not just some; a sense of national identity that rejects conflict for a future of peace and reconciliation. 成功的支柱是明确的：强有力的民主治理；为所有人而非少数人提供机会的发展；拒绝冲突、追求和平与和解未来的国家认同。
And today, we can see that future for Kenya on the horizon. But tough choices are going to have to be made in order to arrive at that destination. In the United States, I always say that what makes America exceptional is not the fact that we're perfect, it's the fact that we struggle to improve. We're self-critical. We work to live up to our highest values and ideals, knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly, but we keep on trying to perfect our union. 今天，我们可以看到肯尼亚的未来就在眼前。但要到达那个目的地，必须做出艰难的选择。在美国，我总是说，美国之所以与众不同，不是因为我们完美，而是因为我们在不断努力完善自己。我们勇于自我批评。我们努力践行最高的价值观和理想，知道我们不可能总是完美地实现它们，但我们会不断努力，让我们的国家更完善。
And what's true for America is also true for Kenya. You can't be complacent and accept the world just as it is. You have to imagine what the world might be and then push and work toward that future. 对美国适用的道理，对肯尼亚同样适用。你不能自满，不能接受世界的现状。你必须想象世界可能的样子，然后推动并努力实现那个未来。
Progress requires that you honestly confront the dark corners of our own past; extend rights and opportunities to more of your citizens; see the differences and diversity of this country as a strength, just as we in America try to see the diversity of our country as a strength and not a weakness. So you can choose the path to progress, but it requires making some important choices. 进步需要你们坦诚面对自身过去的阴暗角落；向更多公民扩展权利和机会；把这个国家的差异和多样性视为一种力量，正如我们美国人努力把国家的多样性视为力量而非弱点一样。所以你们可以选择进步之路，但这需要做出一些重要的选择。
First and foremost, it means continuing down the path of a strong, more inclusive, more accountable and transparent democracy. 首先，这意味着继续沿着一条更强大、更包容、更负责任和更透明的民主道路前进。
Democracy begins with a peacefully-elected government. It begins with elections. But it doesn't stop with elections. So your constitution offers a road map to governance that's more responsive to the people -- through protections against unchecked power, more power in the hands of local communities. For this system to succeed, there also has to be space for citizens to exercise their rights. 民主始于和平选举产生的政府。它始于选举。但它不止于选举。你们的宪法为更顺应民意的治理提供了路线图——通过防止权力不受制约，将更多权力交到地方社区手中。要让这一制度成功，还必须有公民行使权利的空间。
And we saw the strength of Kenya's civil society in the last election, when groups collected reports of incitement so that violence could be stopped before it spun out of control. And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change -- that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends. 在上次选举中，我们看到了肯尼亚公民社会的力量，各团体收集煽动暴力的报告，使暴力在失控之前得以制止。公民组织和倡导变革的能力——那是民主赖以生存的氧气。
Democracy is sometimes messy, and for leaders, sometimes it's frustrating. Democracy means that somebody is always complaining about something. Nobody is ever happy in a democracy about their government. If you make one person happy, somebody else is unhappy. Then sometimes somebody who you made happy, later on, now they're not happy. They say, what have you done for me lately? But that's the nature of democracy. That's why it works, is because it's constantly challenging leaders to up their game and to do better. 民主有时是混乱的，对领导人来说，有时是令人沮丧的。民主意味着总有人在抱怨什么。在民主制度下，没有人会对自己的政府完全满意。你让一个人满意，另一个人就不满意。然后有时你之前让他满意的人，后来又不满意了。他们会说，你最近为我做了什么？但这就是民主的本质。这就是民主有效的原因——因为它不断挑战领导人，让他们提升自己，做得更好。
And such civic participation and freedom is also essential for rooting out the cancer of corruption. Now, I want to be clear. Corruption is not unique to Kenya. I mean, I want everybody to understand that there's no country that's completely free of corruption. Certainly here in the African continent there are many countries that deal with this problem. And I want to assure you I speak about it wherever I go, not just here in Kenya. So I don't want everybody to get too sensitive. 这种公民参与和自由对于根除腐败这一毒瘤也至关重要。现在，我想说明白。腐败并非肯尼亚独有。我的意思是，我希望大家明白，没有哪个国家能完全免于腐败。当然，在非洲大陆，有许多国家都在处理这个问题。我想向你们保证，无论我走到哪里，我都会谈到这个问题，不仅仅是在肯尼亚。所以我不希望大家太敏感。
But the fact is, too often, here in Kenya -- as is true in other places -- corruption is tolerated because that's how things have always been done. People just think that that is sort of the normal state of affairs. And there was a time in the United States where that was true, too. My hometown of Chicago was infamous for Al Capone and the Mob and organized crime corrupting law enforcement. But what happened was that over time people got fed up, and leaders stood up and they said, we're not going to play that game anymore. And you changed a culture and you changed habits. 但事实是，在肯尼亚，常常——其他地方也是如此——腐败之所以被容忍，是因为人们觉得事情一直就是这样的。人们只是认为这是正常的状态。在美国，曾经也有过这样的时期。我的家乡芝加哥就因阿尔·卡彭和黑手党以及有组织犯罪腐蚀执法而臭名昭著。但随着时间的推移，人们受够了，领导人站出来说，我们不再玩这个游戏了。于是文化改变了，习惯改变了。
Here in Kenya, it's time to change habits, and decisively break that cycle. Because corruption holds back every aspect of economic and civil life. It's an anchor that weighs you down and prevents you from achieving what you could. 在肯尼亚，现在是改变习惯、果断打破这一循环的时候了。因为腐败阻碍了经济和公民生活的方方面面。它是一个锚，拖累着你们，阻止你们实现本可以实现的目标。
If you need to pay a bribe and hire somebody's brother -- who's not very good and doesn't come to work -- in order to start a business, well, that's going to create less jobs for everybody. If electricity is going to one neighborhood because they're well-connected, and not another neighborhood, that's going to limit development of the country as a whole. If someone in public office is taking a cut that they don't deserve, that's taking away from those who are paying their fair share. 如果你需要行贿并雇用某人的兄弟——那人不怎么能干，也不来上班——才能创业，那么，这就会为所有人创造更少的就业机会。如果电力只输送到一个有关系的社区，而不输送到另一个社区，那将限制整个国家的发展。如果公职人员拿了不该拿的回扣，那就是在从那些公平纳税的人手中夺走利益。
So this is not just about changing one law -- although it's important to have laws on the books that are actually being enforced. It's important that not only low-level corruption is punished, but folks at the top, if they are taking from the people, that has to be addressed as well. But it's not something that is just fixed by laws, or that any one person can fix. It requires a commitment by the entire nation -- leaders and citizens -- to change habits and to change culture. 所以这不仅仅是修改一部法律的问题——尽管有切实执行的法律很重要。重要的是，不仅要惩罚底层的腐败，如果高层的人在掠夺人民，也必须得到处理。但这不是仅靠法律就能解决的，也不是任何一个人能解决的。这需要整个国家的承诺——领导人和公民——改变习惯，改变文化。
Tough laws need to be on the books. And the good news is, your government is taking some important steps in the right direction. People who break the law and violate the public trust need to be prosecuted. NGOs have to be allowed to operate who shine a spotlight on what needs to change. And ordinary people have to stand up and say, enough is enough. It's time for a better future. 必须有严厉的法律。好消息是，你们的政府正在朝着正确的方向采取一些重要步骤。违反法律和违背公众信任的人必须被起诉。必须允许非政府组织运作，它们能照亮需要改变的地方。普通民众必须站出来说，够了，够了。是时候创造更美好的未来了。
And as you take these steps, I promise that America will continue to be your partner in supporting investments in strong, democratic institutions. 在你们采取这些步骤的过程中，我保证美国将继续作为你们的伙伴，支持对强大民主制度的投资。
Now, we're also going to work with you to pursue the second pillar of progress, and that is development that extends economic opportunity and dignity for all of Kenya's people. 现在，我们还将与你们一道努力实现第二个进步支柱，那就是为肯尼亚全体人民扩大经济机会和尊严的发展。
America partners with Kenya in areas where you're making enormous progress, and we focus on what Kenyans can do for themselves and building capacity; on entrepreneurship, where Kenya is becoming an engine for innovation; on access to power, where Kenya is developing clean energy that can reach more people. 美国在你们取得巨大进步的领域与肯尼亚合作，我们专注于肯尼亚人能为自己做什么以及能力建设；在创业方面，肯尼亚正在成为创新的引擎；在能源获取方面，肯尼亚正在发展能惠及更多人的清洁能源。
On the important issue of climate change, where Kenya's recent goal to reduce its emissions has put it in the position of being a leader on the continent; on food security, where Kenyan crops are producing more to meet the demands of your people and a global market; and on health, where Kenya has struck huge blows against HIV/AIDS and other diseases, while building up the capacity to provide better care in your communities. 在气候变化这一重要议题上，肯尼亚近期的减排目标使其成为非洲大陆的领导者；在粮食安全方面，肯尼亚的农作物产量不断提高，以满足本国人民和全球市场的需求；在医疗保健方面，肯尼亚在抗击艾滋病和其他疾病方面取得了重大进展，同时也在建设社区提供更好医疗服务的能力。
America is also partnering with you on an issue that's fundamental to Kenya's future: We are investing in youth. We are investing in the young people of Kenya and the young people of this continent. Robert F. Kennedy once said, "It is a revolutionary world that we live in," and "it is the young people who must take the lead." It's the young people who must take the lead. 美国还在一个对肯尼亚未来至关重要的问题上与你们合作：我们在投资青年。我们在投资肯尼亚的年轻人和这个大陆的年轻人。罗伯特·肯尼迪曾说过："我们生活在一个革命性的世界里"，而"必须由年轻人来引领"。必须由年轻人来引领。
So through our Young African Leaders Initiative -- we are empowering and connecting young people from across the continent who are filled with energy and optimism and idealism, and are going to take Africa to new heights. And these young people, they're not weighted down by the old ways. They're creating a new path. And these are the elements for success in this 21st century. 通过我们的青年非洲领袖倡议，我们正在赋能并联系来自整个非洲大陆的年轻人，他们充满活力、乐观和理想主义，将把非洲带向新的高度。这些年轻人，他们没有被旧方式所束缚。他们正在开辟新的道路。这些就是二十一世纪成功的要素。
To continue down this path of progress, it will be vital for Kenya to recognize that no country can achieve its full potential unless it draws on the talents of all its people -- and that must include the half of Kenyans -- maybe a little more than half --who are women and girls. 要继续沿着这条进步道路前进，肯尼亚必须认识到，任何国家都无法充分发挥其潜力，除非它能利用全体人民的才智——而这必须包括肯尼亚的一半人口——也许还略多于一半——也就是妇女和女孩。
Now, I'm going to spend a little time on this just for a second. Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn't make it right. It doesn't mean that it defines your future. 现在，我要花一点时间谈谈这个问题。每个国家和每种文化都有独特的传统，这些传统塑造了这个国家。但仅仅因为某件事是你过去的一部分，并不意味着它就是正确的。这不意味着它定义了你的未来。
Look at us in the United States. Recently, we've been having a debate about the Confederate flag. Some of you may be familiar with this. This was a symbol for those states who fought against the Union to preserve slavery. Now, as a historical artifact, it's important. 看看我们美国。最近，我们一直在就邦联旗帜进行辩论。你们中有些人可能对此很熟悉。这是那些为了维护奴隶制而与联邦作战的州的象征。作为一件历史文物，它是重要的。
But some have argued that it's just a symbol of heritage that should fly in public spaces. The fact is it was a flag that flew over an army that fought to maintain a system of slavery and racial subjugation. So we should understand our history, but we should also recognize that it sends a bad message to those who were liberated from slavery and oppression. 但有些人认为，这只是一个传统的象征，应该在公共场所悬挂。事实是，这面旗帜曾飘扬在一支为维护奴隶制和种族压迫制度而战的军队上空。所以我们应该了解我们的历史，但我们也应该认识到，它向那些从奴隶制和压迫中解放出来的人传递了一个糟糕的信息。
And in part because of an unspeakable tragedy that took place recently, where a young man who was a fan of the Confederate flag and racial superiority shot helpless people in a church, more and more Americans of all races are realizing now that that flag should come down. Just because something is a tradition doesn't make it right. 部分由于最近发生的一起难以言喻的悲剧——一个崇拜邦联旗帜和种族优越论的年轻人在教堂里枪杀了无助的人们——越来越多各种族的美国人现在意识到，那面旗帜应该被降下。仅仅因为某事是传统，并不意味着它就是正确的。
Well, so around the world, there is a tradition of repressing women and treating them differently, and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. Those are traditions. Treating women and girls as second-class citizens, those are bad traditions. They need to change. They're holding you back. 在世界各地，都有压迫妇女、区别对待她们、不给她们同等机会、丈夫殴打妻子、不让孩子上学的传统。这些都是传统。把妇女和女孩视为二等公民，这些都是坏传统。它们需要被改变。它们在拖你们的后腿。
Treating women as second-class citizens is a bad tradition. It holds you back. There's no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence. There's no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation. There's no place in civilized society for the early or forced marriage of children. These traditions may date back centuries; they have no place in the 21st century. 把妇女视为二等公民是一种坏传统。它拖你们的后腿。性侵犯或家庭暴力没有任何借口。年轻女孩没有理由遭受生殖器切割。文明社会没有童婚或强迫婚姻的容身之地。这些传统可能可以追溯到几个世纪前；但在二十一世纪，它们没有立足之地。
These are issues of right and wrong -- in any culture. But they're also issues of success and failure. Any nation that fails to educate its girls or employ its women and allowing them to maximize their potential is doomed to fall behind in a global economy. 这些是对与错的问题——在任何文化中都是如此。但它们也是成功与失败的问题。任何国家，如果不能教育女孩或不能让妇女就业并充分发挥其潜力，就注定会在全球经济中落后。
You know, we're in a sports center. Imagine if you have a team and you don't let half of the team play. That's stupid. That makes no sense. And the evidence shows that communities that give their daughters the same opportunities as their sons, they are more peaceful, they are more prosperous, they develop faster, they are more likely to succeed. That's true in America. That's true here in Kenya. It doesn't matter. 你们知道，我们现在在一个体育中心。想象一下，如果你有一支球队，却不让一半的队员上场。那太愚蠢了。完全说不通。有证据表明，那些给予女儿与儿子同等机会的社区，更和平，更繁荣，发展更快，更有可能成功。在美国是这样。在肯尼亚也是这样。这没有区别。
And that's why one of the most successful development policies you can pursue is giving girls and education, and removing the obstacles that stand between them and their dreams. And by the way, if you educate girls -- they grow up to be moms -- and they, because they're educated, are more likely to produce educated children. So Kenya will not succeed if it treats women and girls as second-class citizens. I want to be very clear about that. 这就是为什么你们可以推行的最成功的发展政策之一，就是让女孩接受教育，消除阻碍她们实现梦想的障碍。顺便说一句，如果你教育女孩——她们长大成为母亲——而她们因为受过教育，更有可能培养出受过教育的孩子。所以，如果肯尼亚把妇女和女孩视为二等公民，它就不会成功。我想对此说得非常清楚。
Now, this leads me to the third pillar of progress, and that's choosing a future of peace and reconciliation. 现在，这就引出了第三个进步支柱，那就是选择和平与和解的未来。
There are real threats out there. President Kenyatta and I spent a lot of time discussing the serious threat from al-Shabaab that Kenya faces. The United States faces similar threats of terrorism. We are grateful for the sacrifices made by Kenyans on the front lines as part of AMISOM. We're proud of the efforts that we're making to strengthen Kenya's capabilities through our new Security Governance Initiative. We're going to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you in this fight against terrorism for as long as it takes. 外面存在着真正的威胁。肯雅塔总统和我花了很多时间讨论肯尼亚面临的来自青年党的严重威胁。美国也面临类似的恐怖主义威胁。我们感谢肯尼亚人作为非盟驻索马里特派团的一部分在前线做出的牺牲。我们为我们通过新的安全治理倡议为加强肯尼亚的能力所做的努力感到自豪。我们将与你们肩并肩地站在一起，在反恐斗争中战斗到底。
But, as I mentioned yesterday, it is important to remember that violent extremists want us to turn against one another. That's what terrorists typically try to exploit. They know that they are a small minority; they know that they can't win conventionally. 但是，正如我昨天提到的，重要的是要记住，暴力极端分子希望我们互相反目。这就是恐怖分子通常试图利用的。他们知道自己是少数派；他们知道他们无法在正面战争中获胜。
So what they try to do is target societies where they can exploit divisions. That's what happens in Iraq. That's what happens around the world. That's what happened in Northern Ireland. Terrorists who try to sow chaos, they must be met with force and they must also be met, though, with a forceful commitment to uphold the rule of law, and respect for human rights, and to treat everybody who's peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally. 所以他们试图做的，就是针对那些他们可以利用分歧的社会。伊拉克就是这样。世界各地都是这样。北爱尔兰也是这样。试图制造混乱的恐怖分子，必须以武力回击，但同时也必须以坚定维护法治、尊重人权、公平平等对待所有和平守法者的承诺来回击。
Extremists who prey on distrust must be defeated by communities who stand together and stand for something different. And the most important example here is, is that the United States and Kenya both have Muslim minorities, but those minorities make enormous contributions to our countries. These are our brothers, they are our sisters. And so in both our countries, we have to reject calls that allow us to be divided. 那些利用不信任的极端分子，必须被团结一心、坚持不同理念的社区所击败。这里最重要的例子是，美国和肯尼亚都有穆斯林少数族裔，但这些少数族裔为我们的国家做出了巨大贡献。他们是我们的兄弟，是我们的姐妹。所以在我们两国，我们都必须拒绝那些让我们分裂的呼声。
This is true for any diverse society. And Kenya is rich with diversity -- with many dozens of tribes and ethnicities, and languages and religious groups. And time and again, just as we've seen the dangers of religious or ethnic violence, we've seen that Kenya is stronger when Kenyans stand united -- with a sense of national identity. 对任何多元社会来说都是如此。肯尼亚拥有丰富的多样性——有几十个部落和族裔，以及多种语言和宗教团体。一次又一次，正如我们看到宗教或族裔暴力的危险一样，我们也看到，当肯尼亚人团结起来——带着国家认同感——时，肯尼亚会更强大。
That was the case on December 12, 1963, when cities and villages across this country celebrated the birth of a nation. It was true in 2010, when Kenya replaced the anarchy of ethnic violence with the order of a new constitution. 1963年12月12日就是如此，当时全国各地的城市和村庄都在庆祝一个国家的诞生。2010年也是如此，当时肯尼亚用新宪法的秩序取代了族裔暴力的混乱。
So we can all appreciate our own identities, our bloodlines, our beliefs, our backgrounds -- that tapestry is what makes us who we are. 所以我们都可以珍视自己的身份、血统、信仰和背景——正是这幅织锦造就了我们。
But the history of Africa -- which is both the cradle of human progress and a crucible of conflict -- shows us that when define ourselves narrowly, in opposition to somebody just because they're of a different tribe, or race, or religion -- and we ignore who is a good person or a bad person, are they working hard or not, are they honest or not, are they peaceful or violent -- when we start making distinctions solely based on status and not what people do, then we're taking the wrong path and we inevitably suffer in the end. 但非洲的历史——既是人类进步的摇篮，也是冲突的熔炉——告诉我们，当我们狭隘地定义自己，仅仅因为某人属于不同的部落、种族或宗教就与之对立——而忽略了这个人是好人还是坏人，是否努力工作，是否诚实，是否和平或暴力——当我们开始仅仅基于身份而非人们的行为来区分时，那么我们就走错了路，最终我们不可避免地会遭受痛苦。
This is why Martin Luther King called on people to be judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character. And in the same way, people should not be judged by their last name, or their religious faith, but by their content of their character and how they behave. Are they good citizens? Are they good people? 这就是为什么马丁·路德·金呼吁人们不要以肤色，而要以品格来评判一个人。同样，人们不应该以姓氏或宗教信仰来评判，而应该以品格的内涵和行为方式来评判。他们是好公民吗？他们是好人吗？
In the United States, we embrace the motto: E Pluribus Unum. In Latin, that means, "out of many, one." In Kenya, Harambee -- "we are in this together." 在美国，我们信奉这句格言：E Pluribus Unum。在拉丁语中，它的意思是"合众为一"。在肯尼亚，Harambee——"我们同舟共济"。
Whatever the challenge, you will be stronger if you face it not as Christians or Muslims, Masai, Kikuyu, Luo, any other tribe -- but as Kenyans. And ultimately, that unity is the source of strength that will empower you to seize this moment of promise. That's what will help you root out corruption. That's what will strengthen democratic institutions. That's what will help you combat inequality. That's what will help you extend opportunity, and educate youth, and face down threats, and embrace reconciliation. 无论面临什么挑战，如果你们不是以基督徒或穆斯林、马赛人、基库尤人、卢奥人或任何其他部落的身份，而是以肯尼亚人的身份去面对，你们就会更强大。归根结底，这种团结是力量的源泉，将使你们能够抓住这个充满希望的时刻。这将帮助你们根除腐败。这将加强民主制度。这将帮助你们消除不平等。这将帮助你们扩大机会，教育青年，应对威胁，拥抱和解。
So I want to say particularly to the young people here today, Kenya is on the move. Africa is on the move. You are poised to play a bigger role in this world -- as the shadows of the past are replaced by the light that you offer an increasingly interconnected world. 所以我特别想对今天在座的年轻人说，肯尼亚在前进。非洲在前进。你们准备好在这个世界上发挥更大的作用——当过去的阴影被你们为这个日益互联的世界带来的光明所取代时。
And in the light of this new day, we have to learn to see ourselves in one another. We have to see that we are connected, our fates are bound together. Because, in the end, we're all part of one tribe -- the human tribe. And no matter who we are, or where we come from, or what we look like, or who we love, or what God we worship, we're connected. Our fates are bound up with one another. 在这新一天的光芒中，我们必须学会在彼此身上看到自己。我们必须认识到我们是相连的，我们的命运是捆绑在一起的。因为，归根结底，我们都属于同一个部落——人类部落。无论我们是谁，来自哪里，长相如何，爱谁，崇拜哪个上帝，我们都是相连的。我们的命运彼此交织。
Kenya holds within it all that diversity. And with diversity, sometimes comes difficulty. But I look to Kenya's future filled with hope. And I'm hopeful because of you, the people of Kenya, especially the young people. 肯尼亚包容了所有这些多样性。而有了多样性，有时就会有困难。但我对肯尼亚的未来充满希望。我之所以充满希望，是因为你们——肯尼亚人民，尤其是年轻人。
There are some amazing examples of what's going on right now with young people. I'm hopeful because of a young man named Richard Ruto Todosia. Richard helped build Yes Youth Can -- I like the phrase, Yes Youth Can -- It became one of the most prominent civil society organizations in Kenya, with over one million members. And after the violence of 2007, 2008, Yes Youth Can stood up to incitement, helped bring opportunity to young people in places that were scarred by conflict. That's the kind of young leadership that we need. 现在年轻人中正在发生一些了不起的事情。我之所以充满希望，是因为一位名叫理查德·鲁托·托多西亚的年轻人。理查德帮助创立了"是的，青年能行"组织——我喜欢这个说法，"是的，青年能行"——它已成为肯尼亚最著名的公民社会组织之一，拥有超过一百万成员。在2007、2008年的暴力事件之后，"是的，青年能行"挺身而出，反对煽动暴力，帮助那些受冲突创伤地区的年轻人获得机会。这就是我们需要的那种青年领导力。
I'm hopeful because of a young woman named Josephine Kulea. So Josephine founded Samburu Girls Foundation. And she's already helped to rescue over 1,000 girls from abuse and forced marriage, and helped place them in schools. A member of the Samburu tribe herself, she's personally planned rescue missions to help girls as young as 6 years old. And she explains that, "The longer a girl is in school, everything for her -- for her income, for her family, for this country -- everything changes." She gives me hope. 我之所以充满希望，是因为一位名叫约瑟芬·库莱亚的年轻女性。约瑟芬创立了桑布鲁女孩基金会。她已经帮助营救了一千多名遭受虐待和强迫婚姻的女孩，并帮助她们入学。她自己就是桑布鲁部落的成员，她亲自策划营救任务，帮助年仅六岁的女孩。她解释说："女孩在学校待的时间越长，她的一切——她的收入、她的家庭、这个国家——一切都会改变。"她让我充满希望。
I'm hopeful because of a young woman named Jamila Abass. So Jamila founded Mfarm, which is a mobile platform that is already used by over 14,000 people across Kenya. Mfarm makes it easy for farmers to get information that lets them match their crops with what the market demands. And studies show that it can help farmers double their sales. So here's what Jamila said: "I love Kenya because you feel you are home anywhere you go." 我之所以充满希望，是因为一位名叫贾米拉·阿巴斯的年轻女性。贾米拉创立了Mfarm，这是一个移动平台，已经被肯尼亚各地一万四千多人使用。Mfarm让农民很容易获取信息，帮助他们根据市场需求调整种植。研究表明，它可以帮助农民的销售额翻一番。贾米拉是这样说的："我爱肯尼亚，因为无论你走到哪里，你都有回家的感觉。"
Home anywhere you go -- that's the Kenya that welcomed me nearly 30 years ago as a young man. You helped make me feel at home. And standing here today as President of the United States, when I think about those young people and all the young people in attendance here, you still make me feel at home. 无论走到哪里都有家的感觉——这就是近三十年前作为一个年轻人欢迎我的肯尼亚。你们让我有了回家的感觉。今天作为美国总统站在这里，当我想到那些年轻人以及所有在座的年轻人时，你们仍然让我有回家的感觉。
And I'm confident that your future is going to be written across this country and across this continent by young people like you -- young men and women who don't have to struggle under a colonial power; who don't have to look overseas to realize your dreams. Yes, you can realize your dreams right here, right now. 我相信，你们的未来将由像你们这样的年轻人——那些不必在殖民统治下挣扎的年轻男女；那些不必漂洋过海去实现梦想的人——书写在这个国家和整个非洲大陆。是的，你们可以就在这里、就在当下实现你们的梦想。
"We have not inherited this land from our forebears, we have borrowed it from our children." So now is the time for us to do the hard work of living up to that inheritance; of building a Kenya where the inherent dignity of every person is respected and protected, and there's no limit to what a child can achieve. "我们并非从祖先那里继承了这片土地，而是从子孙那里借来的。"所以现在是我们努力践行这份传承的时候了；建设一个每个人与生俱来的尊严都得到尊重和保护的肯尼亚，一个孩子的前途不可限量的肯尼亚。
I am here to tell you that the United States of America will be a partner for you every step of the way. 我在这里告诉你们，美利坚合众国将在每一步都成为你们的伙伴。
God bless you. Thank you. Asante sana. ["Thank you very much."] 上帝保佑你们。谢谢你们。Asante sana。["非常感谢。"]
