This did not really come as a surprise now, did it? The polls said it, the pundits called it, and the outpouring of passion underlined it. Despite talks of the Bradley effect people kept believing that the change that Mr Obama promised – and indeed epitomised – would be realised. Now that it really is,… Read More »
by Alfred Ochuma www.chekwas.wordpress.com The emergence of Barack obama as the first black presidential nominee of a major party in the U.S is no longer news – the news obviously is that the United States of America has once again re-assured the World that they are the world’s leading democracy. In the face of seeming… Read More »
From The Economist: Though banking standards have certainly risen a lot in recent years, they still lag behind those of America and the European Union, particularly in terms of transparency. In April, United Bank for Africa, one of the country’s biggest, fell foul of American regulators who served the bank with a $15m fine for… Read More »
A More Perfect Union, a speech delivered by Senator Barack Obama at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday March 18, 2008. The video is here, and the transcript below. “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a… Read More »
I said two posts ago that I am now working in Cotonou. One of my colleagues who once lived in America, and who goes to Nigeria very often, told me today that Nigerians are just like Americans. Nigerians think that the whole world hates them, that other Africans are jealous of them, and that no… Read More »