| Change Has Come to America President-Elect Barack Obama's Historic Acceptance Speech Full Text Africa Stays Up All Night to Hear U.S. Election Results Derese Kassa, a professor at Addis Ababa University, said he has never stayed up late for any elections results. But this is a moment he did not want to miss. " America has history whereby the African American community has to struggle to be considered citizens themselves and be a franchise in order to cast their votes," Kassa said. " Coming from this segregation and inequality to be able to see Democratic candidates running for the presidency, the highest office, by itself is a big achievement." Washington Informer Significance of President Obama for Ethiopia & the World " It is not because of Obama's paternal heritage and my Oromo descent, just like many Oromos in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. And it is not simply because Bush has been replaced by a new president. But it is because of the hope in the principles of what Obama stands for. It is because of his stated values of democracy and peace. It is about his stance against wars, bloodshed and aggression around the world. Against pessimism and stubborn leadership. Against double standards and division. It is FOR equality and peace..." Gemeda Humnasa Nazret In Our Life Time " But there is one thing we can proclaim today, without question: that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America means that "The Ultimate Color Line," as the subtitle of Javits' Esquire essay put it, has, at long last, been crossed. It has been crossed by our very first postmodern Race Man, a man who embraces his African cultural and genetic heritage so securely that he can transcend it, becoming the candidate of choice to tens of millions of Americans who do not look like him." Henry Louis Gates The Root Obama's Kenyan Grandmother Fetes His Triumph as Win for Africa " I am so happy that I don't know if I will die of happiness at the airport " when Obama arrives, Sarah Obama told reporters at her homestead." " It will not only change our lives but the whole of Kenya." The rest of the extended family celebrated by dancing and chanting in the local Luo language, " Obama Biro, Yaw Ne Yo," or " Obama is coming, clear his path". Bloomberg Obama: 'A proper leader has been elected' " I am hopeful that he will help end major crisis in the world, particularly the endless conflict in my country Somalia" Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Independent Online Palestinians, Israelis urge Obama to continue US role in peace process " America has again proven itself an example to world democracies." Israel Prime minister, Ehud Olmert " We hope the two state vision would be transformed from a vision to a realistic track immediately." Palestinian Negotiator, Saeb Erekat Ha'aretz History in the making: It's U.S. President Barack Obama " Barack Obama was swept to the White House on Tuesday by enraptured Americans who embraced his message of hope and turned their backs on centuries of racial division by electing their first black president." Canadian Press Obama wins historic US election " On every level America will be changed by this result.. [it] will never be the same." BBC Back To Home |
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Ethiopians hopeful as they raise their cups to Obama
- January, 20 ( The National, UAE ) - " Most people here
believe he will change [the US] policy towards Ethiopia to
pressure the government to bring in more democracy, a free
press and release the political prisoners," he said, adding he
was.... More
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