Africans are currently sweltering in extremely high levels of poverty and material deprivation. The continent is badly in need of effective solutions to a multiplicity of problems (e.g., destructive ethnic mobilization, corruption, public financial malfeasance, HIV/AIDS, child trafficking) which continue to hamper human development. At the same time, a pool of some of the continent's best and brightest, which should be engaged in robust dialogue on how to tackle these problems is busy bashing the President of the United States. The U.S. election is completed and the American electorate has made its decision. Many of us on this forum took time out to participate, either because we are U.S. citizens or because we believed that the outcome would have significant impact on human development in Africa. Nevertheless, it is now time for us to go back to the process of using our talents and acquired skills to enhance positive change in the continent.
It is a shame that we are squandering our intellectual capital engaging in dialogue that is not likely to bring any positive change to Africa or Africans. I believe that it is time for us to focus on finding ways to advance human development in Africa. Our ancestors are watching.
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>>> Kwabena Akurang-Parry
We have begun to see the other side of your cracked mirror! Your avalanche of foolish predictions did not materialize so your next step is to excavate any news that pile up negativities on Obama! Your work is indeed cut up for you: go to the KKK website there are tons of anti-Obama debris. They are all for your keep.
Kwabena
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Israel's Deputy Speaker Of The Knesset Calls Obama "Naive"
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:51:50 -0500
President Obama's re-election triumph "demonstrates that the state of Israel must take care of its own interests," says the deputy speaker of Israel's Knesset.
Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, told Middle East correspondent and talk radio host Aaron Klein after the U.S. election: "We cannot rely on anyone but ourselves. Obama has hurt the United States by his naïve leadership in foreign policy, which prefers the Arab world over the Western world, along with Israel. The state of Israel will not capitulate before Obama."
A senior Palestinian Authority negotiator claimed earlier in the week that if Obama won re-election he would campaign at the United Nations to renew Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and eastern Jerusalem, according to Klein's KleinOnline website.
He quoted the negotiator: "We were told that the negotiations for a Palestinian state will be a main goal for Obama. Netanyahu will be declared the main person responsible for the collapse of the peace process."
President Obama angered the Israelis in May 2011 when he expressed U.S. support for a future Palestinian state based on borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.
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