What is America to me? Thoughts on the US Presidential elections

Countee Cullen, a black American poet, once asked: What is Africa to me?

With the US elections just days away, and Africans holding their breath, fingers mostly crossed for Senator Barack Obama, I find I have to reverse the question and ask: What is America to me?

Why should the outcome of the US presidential elections matter to Africa?

What my heart feels and what my mind knows are at loggerheads. My heart, nationalistic and black, beats with the ups and downs of the Obama campaign. But my mind, at times cynical but always searching for the bottom line of things, knows an Empire is not run on good will, that there are no gentle giants and that history is not erased overnight.

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Liveblog: US Presidential Debate |Town Hall

The second US presidential debate is bound to be another interesting moment on the race to the White House. While the first debate was on foreign policy, and the third will be on the country's failing economy, this debate will have a town hall meeting style.
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Pigs with pretty lips and pitbulls. Metaphors are good for political campaigns. Unkind perhaps, so much fairer to use a single object to describe everyone, like a train say.

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Liveblog: US VP Debate

The anticipated US vp debate will be on in about 8hrs (or less depending on when you read this). Anyway, kenyaImagine's Nekessa Opoti will be running a liveblog during the debate. You can participate in the liveblog by sending in live-comments during the debate, and interact with other readers.

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