Written by Paul I. Adujie

Lawcareer2007@aol.com

New York, United States

Finally, Mr. Obama’s much publicized and much debated visit to Ghana has come and to pass and the world can now return to normalcy! Obama LECTURED the Africans, Africans will snap out of their old ways!

All major American television networks reported Obama stop-over for a few hours in Ghana, using words or terms which are usually reserved for truant children. Mr. Obama is reported as being stern, scolding and blunt to people in Africa. Obama is showing Africans tough love? Who need this type of love?

Are these what that all that Africans deserve from a native son? We are not kids! Obama was undiplomatic by choice, he knows how to be delicate with the Russians, he knows how to be measured with the Iranians and he knows not to be his polite best with Israel despite Israel violations of United Nations resolutions regarding Israel's land-grab in Palestine!

Obama was not blunt, stern or scolding when he genuflected in discussions with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome over issues of stem cell research and abortions, issues in which Obama the Pope are at opposite side of the spectrum!

Obama would have been more successful and impressive across the board and he would have shined and come across smelling like fresh flowers if he had visited Ghana, Kenya, South African commencing such well-thought out African visits accompanied with specifics of policies and programs, sundry initiatives and Nigeria as first prong of course.

Additionally, such African visit ought to be coupled with revamped, reinvigorated and more robust American African policy which does not exist presently within the Obama administration.

Better yet, Obama could have attended an African Union summit and engage all African leaders in brotherly conversation and corralled them on how to press the reset button on democracy, good governance, institutional reforms, prosperity and advancement on the continent, instead, Obama chose the simplistic and voyeuristic public shaming and ridiculing of Africans, as if he was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and that is what some are courageously spinning and labeling tough love? I am dismayed!

Obama surely followed a script, otherwise, he knows or ought to know that he would have been more effective at nudging, imploring and engendering reforms, instead of appearing to backhand whack Africans while force-feeding them with archaic and mundane platitudes to which every person on any African street is keenly familiar!

Obama delivered the script of his masters and his handlers! A script written and orchestrated by African “experts” and Obama delivered the script in the form of scolding in stern blunt words which Obama could not use in talks with the Russians, the Pope and the North Koreans etc Obama was at his most condescending mien best when he was in Ghana! And this was mislabeled tough love and I say, Nonsense!

Some Africans already predicted that Obama would lecture Africans, and expectedly, he did to his heart content. He LECTURED democracy, human rights, corruption etc. Mr. Obama’s is that of appeasement and placation of all others, but, he just has made Africa the exception to his appeasement rule?

Obama did not scold or chastise Russia for her war in Chechnya and Georgia... and Russia for corruption and frequent murders of its journalists... and Russia for organized crime and Mafia way of business deal and Russia for preferring business deals with Iran over election matters and nuclear matters which Obama "so care about"

Obama did not scold or chastise Italy, where Obama was for several days... Italy with Prime Minister Berlusconi whose media empire is synonymous his other tools of corruption... in fact, Mr. Berlusconi has faced repeated charges of corruption and there is the Italian Mafia in there... but Obama went to Italy and he did not lecture Italians

Obama did not scold or chastise Israel, despite all that America does for Israel, Israel's current Prime Minister adamantly refuses to listen to Obama "gentle prodding and request" that Israel vacate occupied territories of Palestine and desist from expanding Israeli's land-grabs! Despite United Nations resolutions to this effect and despite the so-called "International Community" urging of Israel to comply

Obama says he will negotiate with Iran and North Korea UNCONDITIONALLY, and these are "supposed" to be the Axis of Evil ... American enemies per Mr. Bush....

Nigeria, no enemies of America or anyone, is being visited with diplomatic slaps and whacks in the face by this undiplomatic Obama? Obama is a tool in the hands of someone's agenda I was waiting for his apology for slavery and colonialism Ghana and Obama did not seize the moment. I am almost ready to write him off as another Mr. double standard leader of a western nation, preaching to Africa, what they do not practice in dealing with other nations. For his lectures and condescending manners towards Africans and peoples of African descent, I am jumping off this Obama bandwagon!

Obama has a knack for making the platitudinous sound poignant and profound!

He repeated this feat again while addressing the parliament of Ghana, he made banal and meaningless embellished statements to come across as if inspired for Africa.

Imagine when Obama state the obvious, the pedestrian and the rather mundane, such as, “Africa’s future is up to Africans” I would hope so! And in retort, I thought it a fitting response to Mr. Obama’s trite public proclamation in Ghana, I would hope that the future of America is in the hands of Americans, and not in the hands of China, the Chinese who have of course been and still are currently shoring up America’s economy by spending trillions and trillions of dollars for the upkeep of the economy of the United States

Obama came to Ghana empty handed! He arrived Ghana without a program or policy tailored in its specificities toward Africa and Africans. But instead, he made empty speeches, which were replete and loaded with innuendoes which seem reserved for when Obama addresses Africans and African Americans and peoples of African descent.

Obama, during his inauguration speech used the Bill Cosby code-word of “take-responsibility” “taking responsibility” is the same he used while addressing Ghanaians, and even by Obama’s own admissions, he was in effect, exponentially addressing all 900 million Africans, as he ordered American diplomatic outposts to broadcast live and facilitate the spread of his inanities while in Ghana.

During Obama’s inaugural speech as president, I expected him to focus and harp on America’s checkered past and then, state the fact that he stood on the broad shoulders of those who fought his wars, his battles and that he is now stepping into their big shoes comfortably, after those courageous heroes have leveled the playing field through hard work and endless sacrifices, but, all that he pronounced was why some of us should take responsibility. Those who fought liberation battles from slavery to colonialism to Jim Crow on the continent of Africa and in the United States made Obama presidency even thinkable. Obama should not benefit and be repaying them with insulting platitudes.

Clearly, Obama certainly knows who to insult and who to be rude to and when to be cavalier to and I think he has been rude to Africans and peoples of African descent too frequently, in particular, with his pedantic pedagogical preachment of taking responsibility.

Apart from diagnosing African problems and challenges, Obama in Ghana was pure bland blah for a few hours! He came to Ghana to insult Africa, to criticize and to be purposely undiplomatic.

Africa has about 900 million people and Israel has less than 6 million people... what is the amount/quantum of American aid on yearly basis to Africa with a population of 900 million versus Israel of less than 6 million people... So, before some of you here .... suffer burst arteries and cardiac arrest over your perceived amount of aid to Africa do some fact checks... do some reality checks... contact US State Department and US Department of Defense and enquire and compare American aid to Israel compared with Africa during the last fifty years and self for yourselves!

All is agreed, arguably, that the need is greater in Africa, BUT, Africa is not where the greatest amount of foreign aid from America and Europe goes! These are verifiable!

Again, it must be stated that everyone in America and Europe are already familiar with very mundane method to which Obama resorted. It is the case that quite often, anyone and everyone, individuals, institutions and governments are quick to loudly and ostentatiously diagnose African challenges and then, they promptly proceed on their merry way to do nothing about the human conditions in Africa!

What is the point of relevance in loud diagnosis when you have no plan for relief in sight? What is the value of public criticism when you have no specific policy or program which addresses your “eloquent” diagnosis?

How about mutual responsibility? Parts of Europe and parts of Asia received Marshall Plan to enable reconstruction and rehabilitation of parts of Asia and Europe, after the self-inflicted World Wars, Africans and African Americans have not been so lucky, because after slavery, after colonialism, and yes, after the World Wars in which Africans fought as conscripted soldiers on behalf of America and Europe, Africans received no Marshall Plans or any such thing to put us in good stead, we were left to sink or swim, to fend for ourselves. And Obama glosses over, waves all these profound impact away with his left hand? Please!

On the important matter of slave trade history, of horrors and brutalities, Obama only made tepid terse and tired statements full of generalities about human capacity to do good and evil, evil that still exist in the world - blah, blah, blah.

And Obama acclaimed the extraordinary progress between Blacks and Whites; and such efforts which led to the abolition of slavery to his election I suppose. He used the statements again to take swipe at the locals as he spoke about oppression and cruelty wherever it appears. Lectures for primary school pupils?

In all this, Obama came across as suddenly lacking patented and trademarked oratorical skills, he suddenly pretended to lack all his usual fervid luster and manner of speaking, except when he referred to the irony of slave traders having a church erected right atop slave dungeon, the White slave traders exhibited outward manifestations of piety, even as they dealt in death, murder, maiming and shackling of their human cargoes of Africans as slaves. Slave traders with human cargoes treated worse than farm animals, exported out off of their entire familiar.

On the whole, Obama failed miserably, to seize the moment. Obama manifested a complete lack of interest, he suddenly appeared tongue-tied and inarticulate, as if in a loss for words. Obama’s comments at the slave dungeon, were surprisingly very short, he sounded tired, distracted, and he sounded as if needing coffee or as if overdue for an expresso-strength coffee-break!

Obama, whether when he addressed the parliament of Ghana or at his one minute statement at the slave dungeons, failed, refused or neglected to outline or layout his policy for Africa, and yet, every buffon-African is supposed to have been appeased Obama’s fly-over stop-over for a few hours, with the ensuing lectures and pronouncements?

Some are hoping, that Ghana can somehow maximize “benefits” from Obama’s quick-stop in Ghana, but what exactly are those benefits?

I guess some feel as if Obama’s stop-over in Ghana is to endorse Ghana as “a country with democratic spirit” is therefore seen as certification of Ghana as a nation fit as destination for investments, trade and tourism by America and Europe. And I am hoping that Ghana gets so good soon, after Obama’s prattling and tattling tales, so good in fact, that the 8 million people who are currently out of work or unemployed in America due to financial meltdown, will mill or troop to Ghana and I for one will gladly follow them to Ghana! As I am happy for Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry Rawlings’ Ghana. This is good for Ghana; our West African neighbor.

Obama’s display of his lack of diplomatic finesse is selective, so this talk about Obama showing tough love through his condescending lecture and diplomatic slap to Kenya, South Africa and notably for me, Nigeria; Obama’s brief foray into Ghana and the preachments afterthoughts wrapped in spin doctoring of Obama’s inept and undiplomatic approach to Africa.

It must be remembered and borne in mind that Obama has a track record of making impassioned and vociferous speeches with rhetorical flourishes, as he did at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and in Philadelphia during his speech on race in America and Rev. Wright, then Obama’s speech in Berlin, Cairo, Buchenwald, Normandy, etc, it begs the question as to what changed in him in Ghana?

America through Obama has an ulterior and unhidden motive in Ghana even amidst Ghana’s modest gains. Ghana is said to be open to hosting the American military armada as headquarters for Pentagon’s so-called African Command or AfriCom and Ghana is suddenly now and exporter of petroleum and Ghana is seen as amenable and pliable by the Americans.

Obama knows where not to offend his hosts. And Obama knows those who could put his reelection in jeopardy or at risk, Obama also knows where to be a glib talker who speaks obliquely about injustices of the past, present, while sermonizing about responsibility, good governance and corruption redundantly avec sanctimoniously! What Obama parroted in Ghana, are things the average African already knew, and have dissected and digested for more than fifty years. I can only add that Obama is a smart man, who knows all these things.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/world/africa/12prexy.html

A commentator in The New York Times wrote: he, (Obama) failed to acknowledge the role the United States played in getting Africa to where it is today. Ms. Susan Rice, the United Nation Ambassador, an undersecretary of state for African Affairs during the Clinton administration should have primed the President a lot better on the United States’ role in undermining democracy and promoting violence in Africa.

For the record, the trajectory of modern African history was shaped by the actions of United States, Belgium and France in today’s Democratic Republic of Congo in 1960, which was then known as the Belgian Congo. Who killed Patrice Lumumba and why?

The overthrow and murder of Patrice Lumumba by Belgium mercenaries radicalized Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana, pushing Ghana closer to the USSR. If an elected African leader could be overthrown and murdered by mercenaries from a country allied with the United Sates who was safe? Nkrumah followed that by funding armed liberation movements to challenge the white settler governments in southern Africa. This introduced an element of violence, unlike Ghana’s transition from British rule. The path taken by Nkrumah had a negative influence on his contemporaries.

Whereas in the affairs of Europeans the United Sates’ role was that of a guardian, nurturing democracy in Eastern Europe, the reader must be reminded that in Africa the U.S. favored any government, so long as it claimed to be pro-Western. Here is a partial list of U.S allies in Africa (and their fates in brackets) between 1960 and 1990: Liberia (civil war), Nigeria (civil war), Zaire (civil war), Sudan (need I say more), Kenya, and yes Somalia! How does anyone explain U.S funding of UNITA in the Angola Civil war? When the military overthrew Nkrumah’s government, the United Sates rewarded the junta by sending food aid and other consumer goods.

So the reader must note the irony that crestfallen Black-Star, Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, the final resting place of WEB Dubois, the NAACP pioneer, is still the best example of Africans managing their own affairs and the hope of the race in Africa.”

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/showpost.php?p=370798&postcount=3

Above links where Mr. Clement Ikpatt wondered about Obama’s redundantly mundane speech in Ghana

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/john-iteshi/is-president-honest-to-black-africa.html

Above links where Mr. John Iteshi wondered if Obama is fraud on the Black race

Obama knows where not to mince words. Or defer to diplomatic politesse and labored, tortured deliberate over-calibrated message, in which Obama seek to avoid unproductive confrontations and unnecessary loggerheads, his only exception so far, is Africa!

Obama certainly knows when to be a superb diplomat and an expert at delicately balance or even obfuscate through parsing of words, when the feelings of others are involved; It seems as if, in Obama’s view, he has some sorts of poetic license to be rude and undiplomatic especially when world issues relate to Africans, because, some percentage of the blood which runs through his veins is of Africa? Obama used this pedestrian but emotive line, to cloud and shroud his condescension with which he lectured Africans

As we kept hearing during Obama’s brief stop in Ghana, that Ghana is being REWARDED! Rewarded with Obama’s quick stop, but Ghana is being rewarded with what exactly? You would think Ghana is Israel which receives billions of dollars in American aid every year, and does not care what the US think! Israel has a population of less than 6 million and Ghana, America’s new best friend, has a population of 24 million people and what was America’s aid to Ghana last year compared with Israel? Ghana rewarded with what?

Obama announced in Ghana, that he will support nations which make democratic commitment, and shun other nations who do not, fine! So, what ever happened to unconditional talks with nations previously designated, rightly or wrongly, as enemies of America? Is this where candidate Obama meets President Obama in reality check? There is tyranny in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and for some unstated reasons, other than known facts, Obama is not shunning these nations?

Obama seem to conflict, contradict and confuse his own policies! He visited Russia to ask for a reboot, reset of relations between America and Russia. He failed to criticize Russia’s corruption, Russian Mafia way of doing business through organized crime. Obama failed to criticize Prime Minister Vladmir Puttin’s self-succession, from president to prime minister while handpicking President Medvedev akin to former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo favoring President YarAdua to succeed him, but, at least in the case of Nigeria, Mr. Obasanjo has no official post or role in current Nigerian government!

It is okay to acknowledge the fact that Obama did put his undiplomatic foot in his mouth when flippant Obama tactlessly accused PM Puttin of have a foot in the past! But on the whole, while in Russia, Obama conducted himself in a very measured manner, nonetheless. Just as he faked neutrality in the post election protests in Iran. Obama seem to know when to wring his hands shyly, as when he gingerly begged Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel’s land-grab settlements in Palestine and Israel’s usurpation of political and economic oxygen in Palestine.

Let us repeat for emphasis here again, Obama did not visit Kenya, his ancestral homeland, nor visit South Africa and more importantly, Obama overlooked visiting Nigeria. He shunned these nations with commitment to democracy!

What commitment to democracy does Egypt and Saudi Arabia reminds anyone reading this of? These are the same nations which Obama visited during the preceding 30 days before his trip to Ghana! Egypt for instance, has a president for life, endorsed by every American president since Ronald Reagan, Hosni Mubarak has been president of Egypt since 1981. Under President Mubarak, Egypt has violently cracked down on political opposition and in particular, the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood. Mubarak has been extreme in his violent repressive measures, including detention without trial, and I guess this fit perfectly with America’s phobia for Islam? Detentions without trial in Guantanamo is really not different from detention without trial in Egypt or is it?

Anyone can say, arguably, that democracy is not perfect in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria and indeed, the rest of the world! I make bold to say that the imperfect democracy in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, is better day compared with the non existence democracy night in say, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When was the last election in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait? And when is the next election in both nations? Is Obama shunning these nations? Why isn’t he? Looking at Obama, I can now say that the beautiful ones are not yet born!

Robot  # 1 | 13.07.2009 02:42

Better yet, Obama could have attended an African Union summit and engage all African leaders in brotherly conversation and corralled them on how to press the reset button on democracy, good governance, institutional reforms, prosperity and advancement on the continent, instead, Obama chose the simplistic and voyeuristic public shaming and ridiculing of Africans, as if he was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and that is what some are courageously spinning and labeling tough love? I am dismayed!...Read the full article.

nirenen  # 2 | 13.07.2009 05:54

Adujie, you're really not getting it and this is a pity. I am indeed sorry for the likes of you and those you quote (Iteshi et al). So because you shit (sic) in your parlour and I, your brother, have the courage to tell it to your face, but just because I did not say the same thing to the oyinbo man who did not sweep his backyard, that makes me wrong? Obama did not lecture Italians and Russians, therefore that justifies the sorry state of things in Africa and the man should keep mum about it? Seriously, I think you are the one talking rubbish. Saying Obama "gentle prodding and request" that Israel "vacate occupied territories of Palestine..." is the height of insincerity. There are many in the US and Israel who strongly believe that Obama does not truly support Israel. Are you also aware that Obama made a call for transparency in Russia? And that he urged Russia not to interfere in neighbouring states? Read more about this here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/obama-russia-first-trip The real issue is not what Obama says to other people. Who cares? I do care, though, when one is able to make it clear to our leaders that they need to get their acts together. There is absolutely no justification for the kleptomania, crass ineptitude, corruption and non governance that has characterized leadership of governments in post colonial Africa. And PLEASE, stop talking about the past. Countries like China and India could have used their negative colonial experience as an excuse for not being developed but they decided otherwise. You can probably not prevent a fly from landing on your nose. You can DEFINITELY prevent it from remaining there. And what is mundane about one saying “Africa’s future is up to Africans”? Do you as an African realize this? Most importantly, do our leaders realize it? If so, what kind of future do they envisage for our people? And given what is going on in most parts of Africa today, can you honestly say we have really taken our future in our hands? So Obama dealt Nigeria a diplomatic slap (for this is effectively what you are ranting about)? Good for you and your cohorts in power. If it will make us buckle up and live up to our responsibilities, then it surely is a good thing. - Nosa

iamgod  # 3 | 13.07.2009 06:43

HI Paul, Havent read through your entire article, only the first few paragraphs. I suppose finish am later. I just want to respond to your assertion that 'we' (africans) are not kids. If we are not kids, then WTF are we? You tink sey Russia, Iran, Isreal, etc. be Naija mate? Wait first. I dey come back soon.

kalu31  # 4 | 13.07.2009 07:17

remember that article that said UMYA had budgeted $5million to sponsor online bloggers to write and present views favorable to their intrests ? well this Paul guy is one of those people, but dont take my word for it, just keep reading hs posts

denker  # 5 | 13.07.2009 07:24

Nnamani, Mamora, Ezeife Task Nigerian Leaders On Obama's Challenge By Sunny Igboanugo,Daniel Kanu and Austin Oboh, Lagos Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has asked the Nigerian public office holders, federal and state, to gird their loins for the challenge thrown by the United States President, Barrack Obama, who wants Africa to end tyranny and fight corruption to ensure the common good. Nnamani noted how Obama demonstrated why he went to Ghana at the weekend to highlight good governance and warn on the danger posed by the forces of tyranny and corruption. "His position is quite explanatory, and if we must move forward in Nigeria, there is the need to put into practice that young man's declaration in Ghana," he stressed, saying the call is for African countries to strengthen institutions rather than individuals, to have internal democracy not built on personalities and individuals. "Obama harped on the danger of corruption which has been the bane of many governments, not only in Nigeria but in other African governments. But the message there is that corruption or corrupt practice is against the spirit of good, and if democracy must be deepened corruption must be eliminated from the polity where it exists." Incessant "failed" elections and the security issues that come with rigged elections, which have to stop, were all raised by Obama and "we must not ignore those issues for us to move forward," Nnamani counselled. Obama's visit to Ghana is a message for democracy and good governance, Senator Olorunimbe Mammora added in a separate interview. He said he could not fault Obama's choice of Ghana as his first port of call in Africa, as Ghana has demonstrated exemplary adherence to democratic tenets with two successful peaceful transitions. It is instructive, he remarked, that the past two democratic transfers of power in Ghana have been from a ruling party to an opposition, recalling that Jerry Rawlings handed over to the opposition party candidate, John Kuffour, in 2000, and eight years later Kuffour handed over to John Atta Mills from an opposition party. To Mamora, Obama going to Ghana is a lesson to all despots in Africa, including Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. He maintained that Nigeria belongs to the group of undemocratic nations since its elections are mired in violence and manipulations. Said he: "The two successful transfers of power in Ghana in the last decade have been from the ruling party to the opposition, yet the transitions were peaceful and devoid of manipulation. "There was never any desperation to hold on to power as you find in Nigeria; so, Ghana has demonstrated the readiness to establish a buoyant democracy, and that puts it way ahead of many African countries. "Obama's visit is an endorsement of the example of Ghana, and the challenge he threw to African leaders in his speech underscores his basic concern; the message is clear - African leaders have been called upon to embrace democracy and good governance." Former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwemeka Ezeife, reiterated that Obama's visit to Ghana instead of Nigeria, "so-called giant of Africa," shows that "we are a shame to black Africa." He said Obama is justified because Nigeria has not done anything in the last 10 years to suggest the country wants to take the lead history entrusts on it. "We've had 10 years of democratic retrogression instead of progression. The 1999 election was not good, but we managed and said let it go. Then the 2003 election was really bad, but again we said, after mourning, that it should go. "Then the 2007 election came. It was the worst in the history of this country. So, how could anybody who is coming from the clime of Obama look in the direction of Nigeria? It is not fair to expect him to come here." Obama insisted in his address to the Ghanaian Parliament on Saturday that "no business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 per cent off the top, or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. "No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny, and now is the time for it to end." That made it clear, in his own words, why he shunned Nigeria when he dashed with pride onto the continent of his ancestors for the first time as an African-American President. "I am proud to be a Ghanaian today because Obama has made us proud," said Kojo Sakyi, a taxi driver in Accra. "I have heard the news that Nigerians and Kenyans are angry that he has chosen to come to Ghana. Well, the message for them is they should do what Ghanaians are doing so that they would attract U.S. Presidents like we have done so far." Obama added: "I am speaking to you at the end of a long trip. I began in Russia, for a Summit between two great powers. I travelled to Italy, for a meeting of the world's leading economies. And I have come here, to Ghana, for a simple reason: the 21st century will be shaped by what happens not just in Rome or Moscow or Washington, but by what happens in Accra as well." This is the simple truth of a time when the boundaries between people are "overwhelmed by our connections," he said, because "your prosperity can expand America's. Your health and security can contribute to the world's. And the strength of your democracy can help advance human rights for people everywhere." At the heart of Obama's message is that African nations, crippled by coups and chaos, like Ghana has been in the past, can reshape themselves into lawful democracies. He said it takes good governance, sustained development, improved health care. And that the moment is now. "Africa doesn't need strongmen. It needs strong institutions." http://www.independentngonl...

denker  # 6 | 13.07.2009 07:28

People: Y'all must know that ILN aka Adujie in a real life is a failed individual...abeg, make una no take'm serious!

Sammy9946  # 7 | 13.07.2009 07:34

I give Paul Credit for his views, Nosa might be looking at the whole thing with one Eye, open the other, then you'll see the truth in what the Author is saying. The reasons for Obama visiting or not visiting Africa or part of Africa is solely on Americas interest, forget about this blood thing its pure shit. Africa is the puppet of Europe and America, they impose or help to impose favoured Government on Africans... Democracy indeed how about Palestine, did'nt they went to vote... for the west its not democracy as soon as the favoured candidate did not win. Obama is not the promised Prophet, so count him as just another American President... he cannot help Africans, we only can help ourselfs..

iamgod  # 8 | 13.07.2009 07:37

AAAAH! I DON DEY READ AM NOW. Mr Adujie, you are not making an ounce of sense in this tedious epistle. Just listen to yourself sir. I think I will get Bros Auspy to flog you well well with koboko. Obama should have attended AU summit. To do what? African leaders dont need 'brotherly conversation' or 'corralling'. Most of them deserve to be shot and buried in unmarked graves. Its sickening to hear you and some other writers compare Obama's stance on other nations to his stance on Africa. Do you think we all feature equally on the world stage? You advise grown men on what you think is right for them to do, but simply slap the hell out of a toddler who insists on making a mess in his pants always and publicly too. You all gotta be daft to think we are as significant in Global affairs as all these other nations you named. Nigeria may not be enemies to external Nations, but is the worst, most brutal enemy to her own people. I even think Obama was very gentle with us. He should have asked Nigerians directly if we wanted America to come and colonise us. You can imagine what the response would have been. What is wrong in asking Africans to take responsibility? Its easy to rile at percieved insults in faraway Yankee. Ask the downtrodden, frustrated nigerian masses if 'insults' from the US president means anything to them. We are daily insulted by our own here in Naija. Why are you emphasising on the quantity of aid available to Africans from the West? You think if that aid was increased 1000% that there would be any difference? You really do have much misplaced confidence in your African brethren. He that is faithful in little is faithful in much. Your references to America's historical meddling in the affairs of other nation's is unnecessary and diversionary. Everyone knows of America's antecedents in this regard. Is this enough justification for African countries to then remain in the shithole? I can assure you that if Nigeria was a major player in global affairs and could seriously damage US interests if she wanted, Obama may have toned down his speech and used more diplomacy. Unfortunately, we have no respect for our citizens as a Nation. How then do we expect other nations to respect us? Oh! and what does Ghana stand to gain from this visit? I dunno, but then if there was nothing to gain, why all of una come dey vex dey sulk like small pikin sey Obama no go Abuja?

denker  # 9 | 13.07.2009 07:41

=Sammy9946;371151>HOGWASH...we only can help ourselfs.. Mr. JJC, the highlighted words save you from my PUNCH..:D:D:D!

iamgod  # 10 | 13.07.2009 07:47

=Sammy9946;371151>I give Paul Credit for his views, Nosa might be looking at the whole thing with one Eye, open the other, then you'll see the truth in what the Author is saying. The reasons for Obama visiting or not visiting Africa or part of Africa is solely on Americas interest, forget about this blood thing its pure shit. Africa is the puppet of Europe and America, they impose or help to impose favoured Government on Africans... Democracy indeed how about Palestine, did'nt they went to vote... for the west its not democracy as soon as the favoured candidate did not win. Obama is not the promised Prophet, so count him as just another American President... he cannot help Africans, we only can help ourselfs.. Oga Sammy, you still get JJC immunity. No misuse am. Did Europe and America Impose OBJ and Moloch Yaddie on you? (Apologies to Pius). Did you not hear Obama say only Africans could help Africa? Also I did not hear Obama deny his trip was to further US interests.

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