By Neba-Fuh
Tears of legendary civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson and the beams
of smile of Oprah Winfred and others amidst a thunderous crowd of more than 250.000 people in Chicago, USA , and the
rest of the world, culminated to salute History.
A skinny black young man with a funny name, married to a girl of slave descent(as he describes himself) with two beautiful daughters, has defiled all odds to attain the apex of world power.
He is Barack Hussien Obama - The first elected American President of African descent.
Four
years ago, nobody had predicted that a son of a native of kogelo in
Western Kenya of Africa will take the command baton of the world's
most prosperous nation.
The dream of this junior Senator from Illinois -Chicago has been transformed into reality.
The American people have decided to vindicate Dr Martin
Luther King's 'illusive' dream :
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character".
Today, Obama is the realization of that dream !
Africans or people of color should be proud and celebrate, not because Obama carries a magic wand that will immediately eliminate the problems Africans or other minorities are facing, but because, every visionary dream is never an illusion. Time is always the last hurdle between a visionary dream and reality, if people believe, hope and work for it.
As
the world reacts with enthusiasm and joy in welcoming the first man of
Black blood into the White house, so too are African dreaded dictators.
While icons like Mandela send congratulatory messages to Obama, they
too will send theirs.
While Obama's African foreign policy agenda may not involve helping to rescue Africans
from the claws of these dreaded dictators,
one message is clear to Africans about Obama's American achievement- Only the people can effect change and yes they can!
Even
though in Africa, it is nearly impossible to effect change through the
ballot box, because of the rigging machinaries of these autocrats, it
is still legitimate for its people to dream for a better tomorrow- A
tomorrow when the oppressed will take to task their 'masters' in a
unified front, and people power will prevail.
A candle of hope has been lit in the cast of the darkness of African aspiration.
A
people whose sufferings now are mainly perpetrated by those whose skin
color is not different from theirs -African dreaded dictators!
God bless Africa!
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