Dear all,
The website for the 2014 Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin is now up and running. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/2014africa-conference/
We also have a Facebook page, feel free to join and share the page with any and all interested parties: https://www.facebook.com/2014AfricaConference
Best,
Danielle Sanchez and Cacee Hoyer
Danielle Porter Sanchez
Department of History
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Department of History
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Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> May 22 10:12PM
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Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> May 22 12:20PM -0700
Mazi,
That "I beg no vex" and "You know I like you." was a reference to
Toyin's earlier comments, it was not meant for you.
See what I wrote:
"I beg, no vex.
You know I like you."
----Toyin.
After that I wrote:
"Toyin,
We no dey fight, na talk we dey talk, I no vex.
Please do not allow the likeness to stop you from hitting at my posts
whenever the need arise".
It would be best, if we peruse and ponder before commenting.
CAO.
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After is said and embellished, fiction remains a figment of another's imagination!
Cheers.
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The art of enjoyment: Thoughts on
literature + fun
"I'll say it clearly: being a reader of good books—by which I suppose I refer to novels, creative nonfiction, short story collections and poetry—is a beneficial thing. I think that it is the grandest tragedy that there should be billions upon billions of human lives, of which we get to live but one—even those who have faith in the immortal soul agree they are limited to just the one, even if it extends outward into eternity—and I think books are the closest we can get to being inside the mind and living the experiences of somebody else. If you're skeptical, take a look at this 2006 study which suggests that the brain "does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life." Similar studies show that "individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective," an intellectual capacity
referred to as "theory of mind."
The best books also contain aspects of history, science, philosophy, and cultural critique. They inspire us to be more introspective as well as to be more curious about the parts of the world might otherwise be dark to us; whole regions of this earth, whole sagas and histories, obscure anecdotes and philosophical concepts might never reach our minds were they not attached to a story that drew us in. I think language has its limitations only if you allow it to, and that a steady exposure to poetry and lyrical prose can discourage the clichés and banalities that so often bog down common conversation. Finally, we learn from one another often through metaphors and allegories, and having in one's mental repertoire a vast collection of stories can only heighten one's ability to communicate with others."
http://www.wholebeastrag.org/adam-segal/2012/10/24/the-art-of-enjoyment-thoughts-on-literature-fun.html
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"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> May 22 12:02PM -0400
Your classmate at Harvard?
Gloria shakes her head three times and
walks out the door.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
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It is not mine, Jason is my classmate.
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Is this your site, Chambi. Who or what is Jason?
GE
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Dear friends -
Good morning, and I hope you're well.
I am thrilled to write this morning to share with you a project that I've been working on lately with my colleague Bob Feldman, a website entitled African Security Central.<http://africansecuritycentral.wordpress.com/>
In short, African Security Central is an open source resource that aspires to help government policymakers, academics, journalists, and students find the broadest array of information on African security affairs in the most centralized and convenient form possible.
As you'll see if you elect to visit the site, we have disaggregated various dimensions of African security by state and topic, listing various resources for research, teaching, and learning on each. Moreover, under our "Research Resources" pages, we have assembled a breadth of academic syllabi, datasets, maps, newspapers, and institutional resources germane to the study of African security.
Given that this endeavor is inevitably under constant evolution, we would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions, or resources that you could offer to help us improve the site. Particularly, we would be pleased to add links to any of your own articles, books, reports, or syllabi if you would be so willing to share.
We sincerely hope that this website will be of use to you, your colleagues, and your students, and thus we encourage you to share this email with any potentially interested parties.
Thanks so much for your consideration of this project, and we'll look forward to hearing your thoughts soon!
With best wishes,
Jason
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Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com> May 22 09:19AM -0700
Gloria, kindly clarify what is wrong? Is collating/compiling those stuffs not a good idea? What i is so bad, for instance, with the section below from their website?
Africa and Nuclear Weapons
Overview:
Though South Africa was the only African state ever to have nuclear weapons (which it ultimately relinquished), Africa nevertheless plays an important role in international nuclear affairs, particularly as a result of the substantial uranium deposits in countries like Niger.
Articles:
Smedts, Bart R. "Proliferation in Africa: Present and Future Implications." African Security Review 19, no. 2 (2010): 14–24.
Chacha, Mwita. "Regional Integration and Nuclear Energy in Africa." African Security Review 21, no. 4 (2012): 38–50.
Schatz, Oliver J. "A Brief Review of Uranium Mining in Africa." Mining.com (September 2008).
Books:
Steyn, Hannes. Nuclear Armament and Disarmament: South Africa's Nuclear Experience. 0 ed. iUniverse, Inc., 2007.
Hecht, Gabrielle. Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. The MIT Press, 2012.
Film:
"Assault On Pelindaba." CBSNews.com. Accessed May 15, 2013.
Journalism/Op-eds:
McGreal, Chris. "Revealed: How Israel Offered to Sell South Africa Nuclear Weapons." The Guardian, May 23, 2010, sec. World news.
Warner, Jason. "How Africa Plays into Iran's Nuclear Ambitions." CNN.com, January 17, 2012.
Reports:
Laursen, Helle Winge. An Introduction to the Issue of Nuclear Weapons in Africa. Background Paper. IPLI Nuclear Weapons Project, May 2012.
"ISS Africa: Africa and the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons." ISS Africa. Accessed May 15, 2013.
Websites:
"African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone (ANWFZ) Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty) | NTI." NTI: Nuclear Threat Initiative. Accessed May 15, 2013.
Department Of State. The Office of Website Management, Bureau of Public Affairs."African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty and Protocols." Other Release. U.S. Department of State, January 1, 2004.
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[City Journal.]<http://www.city-journal.org/index.html>
Ethan Epstein
One Tough Nutter
Philadelphia's Democratic mayor has cracked down on crime, reformed the city's finances, and spoken frankly about black family breakdown.
Spring 2013
In the hot summer of 2011, Philadelphia was beset by "flash mobs." Dozens of teenagers, mostly black, would gather suddenly and riot through popular tourist neighborhoods, assaulting pedestrians and robbing stores and people. Other cities experienced flash mobs in 2011, but they presented a particular problem for tourist-dependent Philadelphia, where millions of visitors come every year to see the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and Franklin Court—not to mention the famous corner of Ninth Street and Passyunk Avenue, where Pat's and Geno's vie for cheesesteak supremacy.
Mayor Michael Nutter, a black Democrat who had governed the city since 2008, was not pleased. And so, one Sunday that August, he took to the pulpit at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia and launched into an impassioned, 25-minute speech, punctuated by cheers and applause from the pews. "This nonsense must stop," he said, his voice rising. "If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up. And if you want to act like an idiot, move. Move out of this city. We don't want you here any more." Nutter grew increasingly heated as he blasted the city's absentee fathers—who, he implied, were responsible for the crimes that their children committed. And he wound up his speech by telling the flash mobbers: "You've damaged your own race."
Leftist critics quickly lit into the mayor. Columbia University political scientist Frederick Harris even used the R-word: "If this discourse was led by Ronald Reagan, for instance, people would call him on his racism, but now that you have a black face to these explanations it gives it legitimacy."
But Nutter didn't stop at rhetoric; he threw the weight of the Philadelphia Police Department against the rioters. In mob-afflicted areas, he ramped up police patrols and imposed a weekend curfew of 9 PM for minors. Backing up his tough talk on absentee parents, he increased fines on the parents of kids repeatedly caught breaking curfew, from $300 to $500. Local judges pitched in, sentencing flash mobbers to hefty service terms instead of slapping them on the wrist. Ten first-time offenders who had raided a Macy's, for example, had to work there for eight weeks, dressing mannequins and greeting shoppers.
It seems to have worked. In the summer of 2012, there were no flash mobs in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer applauded the city's "amazing progress," noting correctly that "sometimes news is what doesn't happen." But it isn't the only news that Michael Nutter has made in Philadelphia. On many counts, he has racked up an impressive record governing America's fifth-largest city, showing a way forward at a time when so many Democratic-run cities seem resigned to deterioration.
In 2005, Time dubbed Nutter's predecessor, John Street, one of America's "worst mayors." Though Street himself was never charged with any crime, his administration, which lasted from 2000 to 2008, was infused with scandal. His city treasurer, Corey Kemp, was convicted of 27 counts of corruption, including accepting Super Bowl tickets and cash in exchange for city contracts, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Leonard Ross, Street's former law partner and the chairman of a committee responsible for developing some city property, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for, among other crimes, asking developers bidding for a lucrative contract to donate money to Street's reelection campaign. Street's friend and fund-raiser Ron White was also charged with corruption, accused of (again, among other things) obtaining a city printing contract for his girlfriend, who didn't even own a printing company. (White died before he went to trial.) Ultimately, more than two dozen figures connected to Street's administration were convicted on corruption-related charges. Street also presided over a spike in the crime rate, as murders hit a seven-year high.
Philadelphia mayors aren't allowed to serve more than two consecutive terms, and the race to succeed Street was crowded. Candidates in the 2007 Democratic primary included Tom Knox, a self-funded businessman; Bob Brady, a U.S. congressman whose campaign was badly wounded when he failed to disclose his pension income on his nominating petition; Chaka Fattah, another congressman and an old-school urban Democrat who had angered the Philadelphia Police Department by repeatedly calling for a new trial for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal; and Nutter, who ran on a tough-on-crime, pro-reform platform. Nutter was an appealing candidate. Raised in working-class West Philly, he had attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and worked briefly in investment banking before winning a seat on the city council in 1991.
Nutter was emblematic of black success in Philadelphia, where African-Americans make up 43 percent of the population (whites are 37 percent and Hispanics 12 percent). But his candidacy had widespread appeal. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported at the time, "Nutter did equally well in majority-white and majority-black wards" and "got the largest percentage of white votes ever cast for an African American in a Philadelphia mayoral primary." Nutter won a plurality in the primary, virtually guaranteeing him a general-election victory in this heavily Democratic city. Four years later, he was reelected in landslides in both the primary and the election.
One of Nutter's first moves as mayor-elect in late 2007 was to lure Charles Ramsey out of retirement and make him the city's new police commissioner. As the police chief of Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2006, Ramsey had overseen a stunning 40 percent reduction in crime by employing both community policing and the data-based policing that New York City's Compstat program had made famous.
Ramsey imported both approaches to Philadelphia. Central to his and Nutter's policing strategy was getting more cops into dangerous neighborhoods, particularly on foot. When he took office, Nutter had high hopes of hiring an additional 500 patrol officers. But then the economy tanked and scuttled the plan, says Everett Gillison, Philadelphia's deputy mayor for public safety and Nutter's chief of staff. Instead, the administration shifted about 200 officers from other units into patrol work. It also began requiring all police rookies to work foot beats for their first two years. At approximately one officer per 450 citizens, Philadelphia is still less densely policed than Washington. But the personnel changes, combined with data-based policing techniques that direct officers to the communities that need them most, ensure a healthy police presence where it's necessary.
Another important component of the city's crime-fighting strategy is stop-and-frisk, the controversial practice of searching suspicious persons for weapons to forestall crime. The Philadelphia Police Department had already used stop-and-frisk prior to Nutter's election, but he campaigned on ramping it up, and under his mayoralty, the practice has been greatly expanded. In 2005, there were about 100,000 stops; by 2009, there were more than 250,000.
Nutter's administration has also implemented a program, coined PhillyRising, based on the Broken Windows theory of policing, which holds that maintaining basic order stems serious crime. The idea is to use data gathered by police officers in dangerous neighborhoods to improve the quality of life—say, by repairing broken streetlights or cleaning filthy alleys after residents complain to cops on the beat. In 2012, Nutter summed up his overall law enforcement strategy: "We combined a zero tolerance attitude toward those who terrorize our neighborhoods with a community policing approach that built trust and a sense of partnership between citizens and the men and women whose job it is to protect us."
That strategy has drawn predictable criticism from the Left. In 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania sued Nutter's administration over its use of stop-and-frisk, pointing out that blacks constituted 72 percent of those stopped and frisked even though they were just 44 percent of Philadelphia's population at the time. Nutter vehemently denied that stop-and-frisk was racially biased: "It's based on geography and nothing else." The ACLU had neglected to mention that, as Gillison notes, "80 percent of homicides are black-on-black" in Philadelphia. Indeed, that statistic implied that blacks were being stopped and frisked less frequently than they should have been.
Nutter, again, is black (as are Ramsey and Gillison), and he's particularly passionate about black crime, disturbed not only that young black men commit a disproportionate amount of crime but that they're disproportionately its victims. Last year, he teamed up with New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu to found Cities United, a program devoted to reducing violence among young black men. Philadelphia is the largest American city with a black mayor, Nutter points out, and he thinks that gives him a special responsibility to combat the scourge.
In 2011, the city and the ACLU reached an agreement in which the cops would collect and store more data about stop-and-frisk incidents. Nutter's administration also agreed to allow more judicial oversight of the practice and to create a system letting citizens lodge complaints more easily. But stop-and-frisk remained, a major victory for Nutter's vision of a safer Philadelphia.
One element of the mayor's stance on crime has taken flak from the Right as well: his advocacy of gun control. But Nutter is hardly calling for an unconstitutional "gun grab": he's been most vocal about improving background checks to screen gun buyers for criminal histories, as well as increasing penalties for so-called straw buyers (who purchase guns on behalf of others) and those who own illegal weapons. Moreover, the mayor's most intrusive form of gun control is, well, stop-and-frisk. As City Journal's Heather Mac Donald has pointed out in the New York Times, "one purpose of stop and frisk is to deter criminals from carrying guns, in order to minimize spur-of-the-moment shootings." Nutter has said expressly that he's trying to keep lethal weapons out of criminals' hands: "We must pursue actively, vigorously, aggressively, every illegal weapon out on the street. No one should walk around the city of Philadelphia thinking for a moment that a well-trained uniformed police officer is not going to take an illegal weapon away from them."
Is Nutter's strategy working? In 2007, the last year before he took office, there were 391 murders in Philadelphia. Last year, there were 331. But the figures aren't as simple as they look: in 2009, murders plummeted to 302, and they've been ticking up slowly ever since, to 306 in 2010, 324 in 2011, and (again) 331 in 2012. That's doubtless one reason that Gillison and others in the administration prefer to cite another statistic: in 2012, Philadelphia had its lowest number of shootings since 2000, the first year the city started tracking that crime. Since Nutter took office in 2008, shootings have declined by about 20 percent. Over the same period, total violent crime has fallen 15.8 percent and property crime 7.2 percent.
Straight Talk
I want to apologize to all the good, hardworking, caring people here in this city, and especially our good young people, here in Philadelphia. But I have to tell you this morning that I am forced by the stupid, ignorant, dumb actions of a few [to] announce tomorrow actions that we will take that, unfortunately, will affect many here in our city.
Parents, get your act together. Get it together. Get it together right now. You need to get hold of your kids before we have to. Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with: You're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together. . . .
Fathers have a particularly important role to play. Not more important than mothers, but just as important. You know, you're not a father just because you have a kid, or two, or three. That doesn't make you a father. A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns. A father has to provide instruction to a young boy on how to become a good man. A good man. A father also has to be a good role model and help a young girl be a strong woman.
Now let me just say this: if you're not doing those things—if you're just hanging out out there, maybe you're sending a check or bringing some cash by—that's not being a father. You're just a human ATM. You're just an ATM. And if you're not providing the guidance and you're not sending any money, you're just a sperm donor. You're just a sperm donor. You're what the girls call out in the street: "That's my baby-daddy. That's my baby-daddy." That's not good enough. Don't be that. Don't be that. You can do better than that.
And you know something? That's part of the problem in our community. Let me speak plain: that's part of the problem in the black community. And many other communities, but a particular problem in the black communities: we have too many men making too many babies that they don't want to take care of and then we end up dealing with your children. We're not running a big babysitting service. We're running a big government and a great city. Take care of your children. All of them. All of them.
Mayor Michael Nutter
Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Philadelphia
August 7, 2011
Crime may seem like Philadelphia's toughest challenge, but you could make the case that its budget woes are even worse. Nutter took office just as the economy was bottoming out, hammering tax revenues. The city's $4 billion budget had a $100 million deficit, which the new mayor attributed to "a dramatic decline in tax receipts and increased pension costs." The future looked even grimmer: over five years, the city faced a cumulative budget gap of more than $1 billion.
Nutter took swift action, announcing furlough days for city workers, canceling bonuses for nonunion workers, laying off several hundred employees, and eliminating hundreds more through attrition. He also cut his own salary and those of his cabinet members. And he announced plans to shutter 11 public libraries, though he was forced to abandon that proposal after a public outcry and objections from the city council. To get the budget under control, Nutter didn't just cut spending; he hiked the local sales tax by 1 percentage point (though the increase is scheduled to expire in 2015).
That move galled many who had listened to Nutter's calls for tax relief during the mayoral campaign. Back when he was a city councilman, one of his signature issues had been tax cuts; several cuts that he authored had been vetoed by Street. This year, moreover, a rejiggering of the city's property-tax system will probably raise taxes further for many Philadelphians. But Nutter has managed to close the deficit. During the fiscal year that ended last June, the city ran a $147 million surplus. This year, it expects another surplus, though a smaller one.
Philadelphia's fiscal problems go deeper than its budget, however.
Yona Maro <oldmoshi@gmail.com> May 22 06:13PM +0300
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Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com> May 22 08:52AM -0700
Good questions. I am forwarding them to Jason. From my reading of it, it is more of a place to get information from all sources, including those from/in Africa e.g.
African Think Tanks on Security
CODESRIA
Institute for Security Studies
Other:
Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Ajoy Datta, "Think Tanks in Sub-Saharan Africa: How The Political Landscape Impacted Their Origins," Oversees Development Institute, December 2011.
>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:16 AM
>Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Introducing African Security Central/WHAT IS IT
>Great...... this
worthy, thrilling project is not undertaken by Africans as
subjects of their own inquiries and security? It is a project manned
by foreign experts with Africa and Africans as objects of these insights
and lessons for security? Is so, Africans, their governments and
others should utilize Jason Warner's and
Bob Feldman's ( aka US based Africanists ) knowledge and
perspectives. That's fine. Nature abhors a vacuum. If Africans
(themselves) do not champion their own critical development; external
sources will define it.
>
>What is the carving of Africa about -
Sub-Saharan -when the ramifications of Africa's security is
Continental - from North to South, East to West?
>
>Just asking to understand the project. Mr.
Chambi, you appear to be just a messenger. If you have no answer, that is
okay
>
>
>In a message dated 5/22/2013 9:15:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
chambi78@yahoo.com writes:
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Hello:
Where would the forum be held and when? I can help for free. My condition
for any public engagement is that I do not get paid. Okay, I have a bevy of
Women Enthusiasts, interns and male gender (included) to help. All
Afro-Optimists believing in the African Renaissance. Nobody ever saw sustainable
development from exogenous (primarily from external influence) know-how.
The other day someone described a marvelous tree growing project in Africa.
I asked: How long has this teaching of Africans how to plant trees or dig
wells or drive mosquitoes (something was mentioned like that, too). He
said: 35 years with US Aid or other Aid. And the locals never learnt to do it
themselves? I asked.
Let me know but send your response directly. Nothing serious is discussed
via Yahoo Matango/bar room-like groups. It would sooner be rubbishy
polemics, njakiri banters to outright insults and diversionary antics. You avoid
Yahoo and posts things that do not depend on excitements on space - here.
For a recent example, on May 14, an exceedingly successful Public-Private
Partnership Continental African Forum on Health and Wealth, which I
conceptualized and organized (_www.caslight.org_ (http://www.caslight.org) ),
proved so. From the County Executive to federal brasses, every single
official and elected power that was invited honored the invitation. The Latinos
stars came; media reps came; directors of agencies did; the Office of
Minority Health, etc. The outcomes are already rolling with much work to be
done and timely so - by converting opportunity into collateral for community
development.
Dr. Theresa Wansi (Women Economic Empowerment) and Dr. Samuel Dongmo
"aka Dr. Musica (Training and Employment of Foreign (African) professionals
in the US Workforce) at the Continental African Health and Wealth Agenda on
May 14, 2013
The attendance met the expectation. It was also capacity building for
leadership to emerge and implement the operational goals. Of the 75 groups and
specifically identified leaders invited, by 7:15pm, 62 had arrived for the
7:30 start time. Others came later and only one - Tanzania - could not
make it.
Yes, there are SERIOUS AFRICANS.
MsJoe
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From: Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:20 AM
Subject: [cameroon_politics] Some Brainstorming Material
<WBR
A friend has been asked to coordinat a colloguium on "Women, Peace and
Development" and need a program conductor to organize for that
colloquium that will be global (world) in scale but allowing maximum
participation of Africans, and will avoid subverting the agenda around
issues specific to industrialized countries. The colloquium is
intended to involve grassroots leaders, workers, farmers and of course
entrepreneurs and Business Executives.
What are the issues to be handled that will stand as a rupture from
the past and that will at the same time appear promising
What according to you will be the deliverables of such a meeting and
how will the
conclusions of the meeting made available top decision makers and
multi stakers so that they guide them strategically with regard to
outcomes and the golden eggs thereof.
Many thanks for your indulgence
--
Aaron Agien Nyangkwe
Journalist-OutCome Mapper
P.O.Box 5213
Douala-Cameroon
Telephone +237 73 42 71 27
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Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> May 21 10:57PM +0100
This is a great and challenging speech. It is right down to earth. Obama is not the president of African-Americans but rather American President. The policies that he has talked about are for wise guys who want to make it in American way. The dream for greater tomorrow begins now.
President Obama you are great. Ride on brother.
Segun Ogungbemi.
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