Obama and the Nigerian Dream

In the past few weeks I have found it difficult to put pen to paper. With Obamamania and the message of hope and change rising in crescendo against the suffocating gradualism and annoying hypocritical realities of the Nigerian state, I chose to proceed on a self – imposed intellectual exile. I lapped up the historical drama unfolding in North America and indulged in some reminiscences on the Nigerian Dream. The Nigerian Dream? Yes, the Nigerian Dream! That was the title of an article I wrote in my column in September 2007. In that piece I examined the Nigerian Dream in contradistinction to the more popular global reference point: the American Dream.

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Obama’s Victory: Any Hope For Nigeria?

I wanted McCain to win so that USA will collapse, as it was obvious that USA under Bush was heading to isolation that would have killed the super power and make another super power emerge. Now I am forced to explain my silent support for Obama. Obama’s victory has given USA a breathing space to reinvent herself and continue her global domination. How I wish McCain won. Poor Obama, he will spend the good part of his first year clearing up the mess Bush left from Cuba to Iraq. It won’t be an easy run for Obama.

I also supported Obama because he is a Blackman. He has shown that there is nothing wrong with the colour black but bad leadership in Africa is responsible for our backwardness. My support for Obama though in a the daring attitude of his audacity of hope and in him, we now know that you can be your dream, if you wake up and walk towards it, organize and not waste your time kneeling or bowing to the East but finding in your history those ideologies that made you great. As a Pan-Africanist, I support Obama because he has incarnated the ideas of Malcolm X and Martin Luther Jr. Finally the blacks in USA can sing free free free at last thank God we are free at last. Obama’s victory is an icing on the years of struggle by the slaves and sympathetic slave owners. Now the Blacks can stand up tall and look anyone in the face and say I am an eagle, I am a champion, YES I CAN be all that I want to be.

Apart from these, the question is, what lesson will Nigerians learn from this unprecedented victory?

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Obama Loses Nko!

Well depending on the side of the craze you are on, your response will vary. But for us pan Africanist, my only support for Obama is because he is black and has root in mother land.

More also I support Obama because he has epitomized that you can be your dream if you stay wide awake and work hard towards your dreams actualization.

For the African nations carried away by the obamania, today may be the end of a nightmare. At the fever pitch this inordinate show called USA Election 08 has reached, should the whites vote their kind, Africans will shout fraud and allude that INEC and PDP must have given Bush some brush up lectures on how to conduct election, after all Bush voted in Osun State election.(INEC’s Voters Register has Bush among other American names as registered voters) Africans should know that opinion poll like all social science concepts and methodology is not an exact science. So all those who opined that they will vote Obama, may in the secluded privacy of the polling booth vote their mindset, of which brotherhood of race places an important role.

Whatever be the out come of today’s vote, USA will be changed although whosever emerges may not radically change the foreign policy of America.

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BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: ANY LESSON FOR NBA ELECTION?

Be that as it may, can the prophesy of the founding fathers of Nigeria nay NBA said to be fulfilled? Re-reading CAMA after numerous bouncing of an IT name by a CAC verifying officer, it downed on me that NBA is expected to recommend a member to the membership of CAC-See Section 2(c) CAMA. Has this member being representing the interest of lawyers who CAC is making their daily bread expensive and in some cases are daily denied daily bread? The RG despite being a lawyer is  politically appointed and may not cross the minister, but this NBA nominee’s presence has not been felt with regards to the welfare of lawyers; the harsh working conditions in CAC and the secrete cult like secrecy about when CAC is moving to Maitama. I will stage a city wide protest should CAC sneak to Maitama without one month notice to her customers. Forget the rumours making rounds that the movement to Maitam is put on hold because the “brand new computers and other office equipment in Maitama have refused to respond to stimulus. CAC must do the test run the RG promised at Sheraton Hotel during the Customers Forum reported in September Edition of CAC News Magazine. That there has been silence of the drums of inefficiency in CAC does not mean anything has improved. I just took a poverty induced fasting and it may last two weeks, during which I will try siddon look at the hydra headed incompetency masquerading as the ruling class not only in CAC but the whole Nigeria.   In fact Nigeria is as sick as CAC. Since Monday the 20^th of October 2008, those Mongo Pack HP computers are behaving like a worn out colonial master’s typewriter. It takes CAC staff over 4 days to dispatch a notice of denial from the RG’s office to the customer service. IT availability comes out as regular as an irregular woman’s monthly visitor yet the administrators of CAC are less concerned. Same can be said about the dilapidated state of infrastructures in Nigeria. A country so blessed by God and who while resting on the seventh day after delivering us from Abacha, dosed off and the devil in the image of PDP sowed a seed of bad leadership.

Meanwhile, can the upcoming Unity Bar election be said to be run on issues and the content of the character of the candidates or is there a PDP like egg waiting to hatch and impose a lame chairman/Exco?  As I write, a good number of the names of those contesting for various posts are shrouded like a whore in pudah. Any good fish starts decaying from the head hence I have been sniffing about those whose names were echoed as running for the Chairmanship of Unity Bar.

Marginalised Juniors at the Bar (MJB) overwhelmingly endorses the candidature of one Abdul Ibrahim Esq. as against H.E.Shekaru.Esq. MJB’s overwhelming voice vote against H.E.Shekaru’s was not based on the bush telegram report about her inability to produce the required number of practicing fees receipts but on a concrete petition made available to MJB by a junior (now a senior) that worked in her office in 2002, to the effect that she is owing him for 6 months at the slavery sum of 5,000 per month. We use this opportunity to call on all juniors to document all evils any senior is meting out to them, for the day of reckoning is coming.  Like Martain Luther Jr. I have a dream that the day the written opinion of juniors in the chambers of any SAN aspirant will count heavily in the award of SAN is coming; a day your client’s recommendation will weigh against you, after all most seniors will not think twice before refusing to give a junior a reference letter. Clients know those lawyers who do not give transport to their juniors; encourage their juniors to collect bribe for the “judge” which only ends in the senior’s ill bloated stomach. Also MJB wants a manifesto night done for all the contestants so that lawyers can sip down and sieve the rhetoric of rabble rousers and separate Paul from Barnabas.

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Barack Obama - this is our time - that speech

Barack Obama’s Democratic Nomination Victory Speech at St Paul’s Minessota.

We are all in this prison together like the prisoners in the legendary “Shawshank Redemption“; when Brooks could not take it anymore in the ‘Half-way House’ he etched on the word that ‘Brooks was Here’ before taking his life. Red got there he had other plans as he was not about to take his life; but, he appended his name thus ‘and so was Red’. Red did not give it up, he has hope as Andy convinced him to see hope thus; ‘Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever die’. We will all escape this prison someday.

To every believer out there, Barack is etching the words on the marble of our age with his clarion call that: ‘this is our moment’, ‘this is our time’. I will do my bit here today be reproducing part of that messages so that the generations to come will someday, somehow come across this and know that we caught the vision and ran with it.

Here is the last three mintues of that great speach. You can watch the entire 29 mins speech over and over again.

This is out time; This is our moment;

Our time to turn the pages of the policies of the past; Our time to bring bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face;

Our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love;

The journey will be difficult, the road will be long, I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations, but i also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people because if we are willing to fight for it and beleive in it; then i am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment we began to provide care for the sick and bring job for the jobless;

This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planets began to heal;

This was the moment we end the war and secure our image as the last best hope on earth;

This was was the moment, this was the time when we come together to remake this great nation so that it willalways reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals…

Wherever you are lucky or not to lucky to find yourselve; one thing is sure this is our time to make the necessary change that will help heal this planet.

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Barack Obama Wins Democratic nomination

African warhorse Senator Barack Obama, galloped into the history of  the world by being the first non-white to clinch the nomination of a major political party in America.

The Kenyan raked in 2,118 delegate votes to out shine Hillary Clinton. Throughout the 54 contests of the campaign to last Tuesday, the resilience and African spirit of never say die despite all odds, kept Obama in the race. Like his antelope footed marathon runner brothers, he kept focused, broke fundraising records, attracted and made Africa proud.

Now that our skin has been hoisted on the top echelon of world politics, the leaders in Motherland (continent of Africa), should use this clarion call to redefine the mentalities of the African people. It is possible to rebuild Africa. All our leaders need is an audacity of hope and the faith to drive through ageless deprivation by the colonial mentality.

 

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