Articles · Vol. 5 No 2 (2009): Revue africaine des Livres, volume 5, n° 2, 2009 · Pages 4-5

1 - Dreams from Our Ancestors: Obama and Africa

  • Adekeye Adebajo
    Adekeye Adebajo Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3656-3134 (non authentifié)
    ADEKEYE ADEBAJO is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of Building Peace in West Africa, and Liberia’s Civil War (both 2002); and co-editor of South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid...
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Résumé

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama. Three Rivers Press, 1995, 453 pgs, ISBN: I-4000-8277-3, $13.95
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama. Crown Publishers, 2006, 375 pgs, ISBN: 978-1-84767-083-0, $16.50
Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell. HarperCollins, 2007, 406 pgs, ISBN: 978-0-06-085821-6, $14.95

When Barack (‘blessed’) Obama – the child of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother – was elected as the first African-American president of the United States in November 2008, a wave of ‘Obamamania’ swept across the African continent, its Diaspora, and the world. Former South African president, Nelson Mandela, noted: ‘Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place’. Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki said: ‘The victory of Senator Obama is our own victory because of his roots here in Kenya. As a country, we are full of pride for his success’. South African president at the time, Kgalema Motlanthe, opined: ‘Your election…. carries with it hope for
millions…. of people of …African descent both in Africa and in the diaspora’. Nigerian president, Umaru Yar’Adua noted: ‘Obama’s election has finally broken the greatest barrier of prejudice in human history. For us in Nigeria, we have a great lesson to draw from this historic event.’ Finally, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, the Ghanaian Kofi Annan, exclaimed: ‘Obama’s victory demonstrates America’s extraordinary capacity to renew itself.’...

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  • Adekeye Adebajo, Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

    ADEKEYE ADEBAJO is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of Building Peace in West Africa, and Liberia’s Civil War (both 2002); and co-editor of South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era (2007).

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