Okey Ndibe on Obama - Africa, and the world

Obama’s relationship with Africa is bound to be complex. While embracing him as an extraordinary politician with African ancestry, African nations ought to realize that Obama is, at core, an American. He has warned, for example, that the U.S. is going to reduce its foreign aid to poor nations...

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Okey Ndibe is currently an associate professor of English at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, MA. In 2002, he won the college's New Faculty Teaching Award. During the 2001-2002 year, Ndibe was a Fulbright Lecturing/Research Scholar at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Ndibe was the founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine published in the U.S. by novelist Chinua Achebe. Ndibe also served as a member of the editorial board of Hartford Courant. A piece he wrote in the Courant titled "Eyes to the Ground: The Perils of the Black Student," was chosen by the Association of Opinion Page Editors in 2001 as the best opinion piece published in any American newspaper. <

From 1997 to 2000, Ndibe was a visiting professor of English and Creative Writing at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut where he was named by the CollegeVoice, the college's student newspaper, as one of the college's "Five Outstanding Professors."

Ndibe has made editorial contributions to several publications in the U.S., England, and Nigeria including Hartford Courant, Transatlantimes Times, The Fabian Society Journal, Black Issues Book Review, BBC Online, Emerge, The Guardian, and now Nigerian Village Square
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Dear friends,

I am both enormously proud and honored to share with you the thoughts of my old and dear friend Okey Ndibe. On the link below, this longtime celebrated African scholar,, educator, and author gives us a glimpse into the realities of an Obama presidency, from an African perspective.

Please remember that, in spite of any gains that we make here in the United States of America, African Americans will never truly be respected, until our Mother continent, Africa, is respected.

One Love, One Heart, One Spirit,
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/okey-ndibe/barack-obama-and-the-black-phoenix-2.html