Obama and the Nigerian Dream
November 13, 2008 by 
Uche Ohia · Leave a Comment
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.
Until the gangling forty – seven year old senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama, trounced tight – lipped fellow American senator, John McCain Read more
