Barack Obama has utilized his first prominent discourse since venturing down as US president to take swipes at "strongman legislative issues" and lawmakers' carelessness for the actualities.
His remarks are viewed as not at all subtle feedback of the present US organization's utilization of what has been portrayed as "elective actualities".
Here are five key focuses from his Nelson Mandela address, made to the world's media and a group of people of exactly 15,000 individuals in South Africa's principle city, Johannesburg.
Obama's discourse as it happened, and other African stories
1. Actualities are hallowed
"You need to have confidence in realities," said Mr Obama, "without certainties there is no reason for co-task.
"On the off chance that I say this is a platform and you say this is an elephant, it will be hard for us to co-work."
Mr Obama said that he could discover shared opinion with individuals who couldn't help contradicting the Paris accord on environmental change - which Donald Trump needs to haul the US out of - on the off chance that they had a contention in view of truth.
The expression "elective actualities" was utilized by a Trump helper in connection to participation at his initiation
Be that as it may, Mr Obama included: "I can't discover shared belief on the off chance that somebody says environmental change isn't occurring when all the world's researchers say it is. In the event that you begin saying it is an intricate lie, where do we begin?"
Mr Trump has said he supposes environmental change isn't going on.
After a minute, Mr Obama told the group of onlookers: "It used to be on the off chance that you got them [politicians] lying, they stated: 'Gracious man'. Presently they simply continue lying."
2. Movement is a quality
Barack Obama said endeavoring towards equity guarantees a general public can draw on the abilities and the vitality of the majority of its kin.
"Simply take a gander at the French football group," he said to wild cheers, alluding to France's Reality Container win days prior.
"Not those people looked like Gauls to me, however they are French - they are French."
It is a "plain reality" that racial segregation still exists in the US and South Africa, Mr Obama said.
'The phantom of US presidents
Barack Obama offered what a portion of his supporters will see as not really hidden references to his successor in his discourse regarding Nelson Mandela's inheritance, protecting vote based foundations and a free press, and censuring "strongman governmental issues" and indecent pioneers who "twofold down" when gotten in lies.
The previous president additionally offered a product he generally appears to have in prepared supply - trust.
"Things may go in reverse for some time, at the end of the day, right makes may," Mr Obama said. "Not the a different way."
It's a riff on the Theodore Parker line he much of the time cites, about the circular segment of history being long yet bowing toward equity.
On the off chance that Mr Obama had a message for the world - and especially for Americans uncertain about the course their country is on - it's that the battle is genuine, yet the completion is a glad one.
There are most likely in excess of a couple on the left, be that as it may, who wish Mr Obama would give in excess of a couple of addresses and deliberately worded explanations.
With mid-term races that will decide control of Congress only four months away, they need him to step far from the platform and completely join the battle.
3. Business titans are 'disconnected from standard individuals'
Barack Obama said the world's first class were withdrawn from the lives of poor people.
"In their business dealings, numerous titans of industry... are progressively withdrawn from any country state" and they "lead lives increasingly segregated from normal individuals", he said.
Subsequently, their choices to "close down a manufacturing plant" were viewed as just an "objective reaction" to investors' requests.
4. Viva majority rule government!
Government officials utilizing "legislative issues of dread, hatred, conservation" were ascending "at a pace inconceivable only a couple of years prior," Barack Obama cautioned.
Majority rule government is untidy, he stated, "yet the effectiveness of a dictator is a false guarantee".
"It is the ideal opportunity for us to quit giving careful consideration to the world's capitals... furthermore, center around the world's grassroots. That is the place vote based system originates from," he included.
Cautioning against crawling populism and "strongman legislative issues", he put forth the defense for liberal popular government, saying that he trusted it offered the better future for mankind.
"I trust in Nelson Mandela's vision" for the world's future, he stated, "I trust that a world represented by such principals is conceivable".
"It can accomplish more peace and more collaboration in quest for a typical decent," he included.
"I trust we must choose the option to advance... I trust it depends on hard proof. The way that the world's most prosperous and fruitful social orders happen to be those which have most intently approximated the liberal dynamic perfect that we discuss."
Things may go in reverse for some time, yet - at last - right makes may," Mr Obama said. "Not the a different way."
5. Keep trust alive
"Continue accepting. Continue walking. Continue building. Continue raising your voice. Each age has the chance to redo the world," Mr Obama stated, finishing his discourse on a positive note.
To boisterous cheers, he approached youngsters tuning in to him to get "started up".
"We don't simply require one pioneer... what we severely require is that aggregate soul," he included.
"Mandela said youngsters are competent when stimulated of cutting down the towers of mistreatment and raising the pennants of flexibility," he said. "Presently is a decent time to be excited."
Around 15,000 individuals are accounted for to have gone to the current year's Nelson Mandela address
Barack Obama's discourse was a piece of occasions to stamp a long time since the introduction of previous South Africa President Nelson Mandela, who kicked the bucket in 2013 matured 95.
The two men were the primary dark leaders of their nations.
Mr Obama has said he was "one of the incalculable millions who drew motivation from Nelson Mandela's life".
Mandela drove the battle against white minority administer in South Africa. He was detained for a long time before he turned into the nation's first justly chose president in 1994.
As an understudy, Mr Obama called the battle against politically-sanctioned racial segregation "a battle that contacts every last one of us", and urged his college to drop its interests in South Africa.
Since its start in 2003, worldwide pioneers have utilized the address to talk about issues influencing South Africa, the mainland and the world.
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