Kenyaimagine Updates – hadn’t we heard those words before

Do you think you, and many other Kenyans, watching Obama deliver his speech in Accra, would have reacted differently to what he said, if he was say, George Bush? Does it matter that Obama is ‘african’?

In his article, Ombuya E. Okongo writes:

‘Because Obama is of African blood, no one stood up to tell him that “democratic commitment” is an American buzz phrase we have heard many times, and that, if indeed this was about democracy, Ghana wouldn’t have been the best choice. Doesn’t Ghana have a long history of coups? And didn’t products of those coups rule the country until as recently as 2001?’

Do you agree? Why don’t you consider the rest of Okongo’s arguments at Kenyaimagine, and join the discussion?

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