WASHINGTON — On the guest list of the 1999 state dinner hosted by President Clinton for President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, no occupation was listed for Valerie Wilson, the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, Clinton's top White House Africa analyst from 1997 to 1998.
Now, if you do a search on the dinner, without Wilson's name, you come up with:
WASHINGTON, DC -- The President and Mrs. Clinton are hosting his Excellency Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, President of the Republic of Ghana and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, at a White House State Dinner on Wednesday, February 24, 1999.So the dinner wasn't in Africa, it was at the WH, so that does us no good.
I don't think this is the same state dinner. I'm reasonably sure -though now I can't say 100% sure because of the passage of time- that the dinner in my link was in Africa and no other names on that guest list rang a bell at the time. I think we would have noted Clinton's presence there were he mentioned.
On the other hand, it tells us when Joe Wilson was NOT in Africa. ;-)