Obama's current tour of the Middle East and Europe, starting with Afghanistan and Iraq as I had thought it would, gives us all reason to pause and ponder what awaits the world in the near future. Let me post just some of the thoughts that are going through my mind right now, particularly after reading a blog post in Political Punch by ABC's Jake Tapper (see Yambo's Blog Village).
America is fortunate to have a citizen whom the world so widely admires, already, and through whose achievements, as President, I believe America will in turn, and once again, be widely admired as a self-renewing land of opportunity (a land, moreover, which knows how to seize the opportunities that come its way).
America will be respected, once again, as a respectful member of a world community whose defining character is diversity -- and even hybridity.
Of course, as a Kenyan, I am proud that we had something (just a little something) to do with the gift which America, now, so proudly presents to the world -- and which the world is manifestly ready to receive with so much enthusiasm.
America's gift is Kenya's gift. Africa's gift, indeed.
The very gift of humanity to Planet Earth is Africa's gift.
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