November 6, 2008
In an unofficial sampling, many Africans told VOA they support the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ 44th president. Senator Obama is the first African-American to hold the office. MALAWI “I’d like to congratulate Barack Obama for winning, for entering the White House. You ...
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November 3, 2008
I was still digesting the news of Obama’s Auntie Zeituni, living in the US illegally since 2004, when the doorbell rang. It was after 5pm on Saturday afternoon, and I wasn’t expecting anybody on a cold November day at the onset of the Michigan winter. I went to see who it was, and was greeted by...
go to article »August 18, 2008
The exclamatory commentary that has accompanied Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the presumed nomination of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate has excited, beneath it, the question of what the nomination itself, and a possible Obama presidency, might mean for the Pan-Africanist world as w...
go to article »July 25, 2008
The exclamatory commentary that has accompanied Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the nomination of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate has excited, beneath it, the question of what the nomination itself, and a possible Obama presidency, might mean for the Pan-Africanist world as well as th...
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May 16, 2008
How was your week-end? I had a fabulous one, spent a lot of time not thinking about our world's decay...I save that for Mondays. Parliament is still stalling, Southern Rhodesia is still sorting out who's worth being President and Obama is not a clear winner yet. So what else is new? I am keeping ...
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When I learned that the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright was going to give a speech at Michigan State University on February 7th, I spread the word to friends and colleagues I knew would love to hear Barack Obama’s pastor speak. Of the half dozen or so people I mentioned his name to, none of them had ...
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A number of people have asked me to speed up the entries on the US presidential elections. Here's my first entry, which ends with my endorsement of Barack Obama. The process of picking up the candidates Unlike in our mother Malawi, where all the main parties have effectively picked their candi...
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