I was probably the only journalist in Ghana who refused to be wowed by President’s Obama’s beautiful speech in Accra, during his July 10-11, 2009 trip to Ghana. In the article I wrote to welcome him, Welcome, Emperor Obama, I said: “It is true that things have changed, and that the United States now boasts a black president, but, given its history of violence against the non-white world, the onus is upon the U.S. to prove its sincerity. Africa has been treated very badly by the U.S.,
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When President Barack Obama opens the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American Histo
By Anselm AnyohaFour years ago I was unwavering in my intention to write about President Barack Obama. To show how his height, color, skills, emotions and so forth are a result of his mixed race: white mother and black father.
Find out about him first, my procrastinating brain advised. I agreed and read his book, Dreams From my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, written in 2003. Three months ago I went over it again.
The book begins with how, at age twenty-one, Obama received a call fro
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Host Committee; U.S. Congressional Members; Rep. Bobby Rush (1st District-Illinois), Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (5th District-NY) and Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (11th Distri
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