Daily Trust (Abuja)
12 November 2008
Writing in The Guardian of November 4, the very day of America's presidential election, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, arguably Nigeria's foremost foreign affairs expert and one-time foreign affairs minister, said a victory for Barak Hussein Obama, the first Afro-American presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, would be the "ultimate catharsis" for both black and white Americans over the ...
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Dear Prof, Good Morning Sir. I am not sure that you can remember me after all these years of not meeting. I met with you during the "Apampa Rice Riots at UI" under Professor Adeoye Lambo. The student leader then was Agunbiade and one Adekpoju was killed by the police. You have spoken your mind eloquently but I am scared on the fact that the Rich and Powerful in America will still be emasculating us. I hope that the beating will be less under Obama. Can you imagine a President cutting taxes for those who afford it during two wars? Can you imagine a President who authorizes his int. units to listen to phone conversations including phone sex? What of the massive unemployment and loss of homes here? Is that the America I know?