Dictator
Dictator
Even these walls,
Where you have pasted your face
And allowed no other
To write their own election graffiti,
Have begun to hate you.
By Lawrence Hoba
They were praying hard for Obama
Church leaders praying for Barack Obama before the US elections. These are the pictures you never get to see on the news.
There is power in prayer.
Sustainability lost
The last few months have been a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Watching Obama win the US Presidential elections brought through such a powerful wave of emotions. Wonder and relief mixed with positive hope for change. There is shift happening in the world, and this feels part of this shift. But this is about America. I am Zimbabwean. Why has this affected me so much?
I feel the answer has to lie in his amazing journey. The man has won against such huge adversity. His message of change and hope for the future won out against the state machines. There was not an entirely fair or level playing field. Like many other countries, the government in power had the resources and the ability to put barriers in the way of the opposing party. Oh it was far less devastating and pervasive as it is in some countries, but it still existed. Read more
Barack Obama victory speech
4th November 2008, Grant Park, Illinois, Chicago
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference. Read more
Of political maturity and Africans
Barak Obama- First US Black President
According to the news, Democratic Senator Barack Obama says “change has come to America”, after being elected the first black president of the United States.
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight… change has come to America,” the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a park in Chicago.
His rival John McCain accepted defeat, saying “I deeply admire and commend” Mr Obama. He called on his supporters to lend the next president their goodwill.
Can this example of peaceful, transparent elections, and ‘political maturity’ be emulated and followed by we- Africans? Read more
