Barack Obama: How will Africa remember him?
The election of the first African-American US president led many Africans to believe that the continent might gain more prominence in US foreign policy.
While some high expectations remain unfulfilled, Mr Obama's eight years in office initiated a pivot to US-Africa policy, a little further away from aid and closer towards business.
An art studio in Kenya's capital, Nairobi offers a glimpse of the Obamamania that swept across Africa when the "son of the soil" became president.
Yegonizer, an artist, says his portraits of Mr Obama have sold well because "generally he's loved by many people, so quite a number of people who walk in are interested in the paintings".
He is now trying to move on to the President-elect Donald Trump, but with little success so far.
After his win in 2008, Mr Obama's portrait was painted on walls, buses and T-shirts across Africa. Restaurants, schools and even children were named after him.
During his two terms he went to seven countries in the four visits he made to Africa - more than any other US president.
He also became the first sitting American president to visit Kenya and Ethiopia.
His administration increased military support to Somalia, Cameroon and Chad to fight al-Shabab and Boko Haram respectively, and established military outposts in more than 10 African countries.
But it is America's intervention in Libya that attracted the most attention - and criticism, for leaving the country deeply unstable.
Mr Obama himself said that the aftermath of intervention in Libya was his "biggest foreign policy regret".
In a town hall meeting in 2016 he confessed: "I did a little too much counting on other countries to then stabilise and help support government formation, and now it's kind of a mess."
Nigerian's view on Obama; The people of Federal republic of Nigeria will remember Barack Obama as the man who want's to impose "GAY" on them, they will also see him as the president of the United States who refused to visit the most massive black nation in the world.[Nigeria] The people of Nigeria especially the south eastern of the country we also see Obama as the president that neglected their plea for BIAFRA, taking cognizance of the fact that since the leader of IPOB was arrested and detained he, Obama did nothing about that situation. In Nigeria, Barack Obama holds no ground...
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