we heard this song on one of our daily matatu rides - couldn't really understand the lyrics but it kept on going with "Barack Obama" non-stop. Amid the whole craze of Obama, this song is sticking strong to my head at the moment.
people keep saying that Kenya is the best country to watch the big day outside of US - but let me rephrase this - Kenya IS the best country to watch the big day even counting US! Everything is about Obama here nowadays, sharing some statistics:
Kenyan who can imagine an Obama failure: 0
Kenyan who believes in actual benefits/changes to Kenya if Obama wins: more than 50% of the population I'd estimate - and for sure everyone from western Kenya where this golden boy's father came from
One of the many shocking comments - from a 25 year old student (since she's 25, I suppose she's a univ student):
"...it is definite that Obama will ship his family to the US. The visa restrictions will also be reduced. Also, I think he can influence more aid to come to Kenya. Kenyans will also have an upper hand to go to America compared to people from other nationalities..." (from Nation Daily today)
I believe this young girl has already packed her stuff and bought her one-way ticket to her American dream.
There are of course more sensible voices on this but they are drown without trace in the wave of madness of confidence. One of these sensible opinions was the title of the other major newspaper (the Standard) on the election - "America Decides", I'd rather put it as "Americans Decide", but either way it points out the obvious. It is the Americans who will give the mandate of who will be their next President, the reverse is also true: it is the Americans, whoever becomes the next President of USA needs to be accountable for primarily if not solely.
The winning of Obama, can only bring on one positive thing for sure - it is the belief that you can achieve something big despite your skin color, as long as you try hard enough. And this goes for all the Chinese, Indians, Latinos etc, not just the blacks.
-----------------------------oh but I do forgot-----------------------------
another positive thing is surely to come besides the cheerful mood - Kisumu airport is building a new terminal so that Air Force One can land there when Obama visits his grandma and his fellow relatives, and let me just say the whole Kenyan population since we are related to him in one way or another. A new terminal = new jobs = more money = bigger welfare. So I should really be lest sceptic on the whole thing!
besides building new terminal, people in Kisumu are also busy voting(!) - according to the Standard page 8 today, a mock voting exercise on the US election is organised today in Kisumu town, supports of Obama (= everyone) and supporters of McCain (= alien) can cast their votes, and obviously the election, contracted to the real one end of last year "will be free and fair and tallying, will be not conducted at KICC" as claimed by Mr. Lawrence Oyange, who is in charge of this "election".
Bring on more fun.
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