Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem

It will be difficult to discuss anything this week but the inauguration of the first Blackman to be elected President of the United States of America. It is an election that is resonating with historical symbolisms and promises of new beginning and great expectations.

Don't we all wish we were Ghanaian? They have just had universally acknowledged free and fair elections in which the difference between the two leading candidates (the flag bearer of the ruling party and that of the main opposition and former ruling party) was less than 2 per cent!

What happens to revolutionaries when they get into power? This familiar question was haunting me all of last week when I was back ‘home’ (I lived in Uganda from 1992–2005 and still hold a Ugandan government diplomatic passport).

Wally Serote, South African writer, once wrote, during the struggles against apartheid, that ‘to be Black and relatively conscious, is to be angry all the time’. It was true then and even truer now.

The recent arrest in Frankfurt, Germany, of the chief of protocol of the president of Rwanda, Lieutenant Colonel Rose Kabuye, has brought to a head the protracted political battle between France and Rwanda since the end of the Rwandan genocide and the coming to power of the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic

Barack Obama, 47 years old, son of an African from Kenya and a white American was on 5 November 2008 declared the 44th president-elect of the most powerful country in the world, the United States of America.

If you and I owe money to a bank or any lending agencies, any supplier of goods and services, credit company or outstanding mortgage and we default in our payments we know what to expect: threatening letters, last warnings, and advisory notes that are really last chance orders before the bailiffs

Forty Eight Hours later the opposition had won the referendum and the government had sadza on its face. Since that day, the doomsday scenario feared for different reasons by either side had been unleashed on the people of Zimbabwe.