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Press Release from the Association of Barak OBama supporters in …
Cocorioko, Sierra Leone
What added to the political glamour was when Texas State Representative and delegate Mike Villarreal, with tears dropping from his eyes, said: "I want to be able to tell my kids I was here when a black man and a white man got elected to lead our party…and I'm part of that for them. " What a fine optimism! This then is where the election of Barack Obama into the White House would not only compensate for the horrendous discrimination people of color suffered in the hands of their oppressors, but Africa will also celebrate that victory (history) with pomp and pageantry by virtue of the fact that one of their kin is poised to become the most powerful person in the world. Indeed, the ominous challenge an Obama presidency will mean for Africa and Sierra Leone in particular is for some of the continent’s notorious politicians to shirk tribal and regional cleavages of self political aggrandizement for genuine democracy, the rule of law, good governance and the respect of human rights at all times. Once this is achieved, it will then be the symbolic gift to be given to Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of “…when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Last Updated ( Monday, 27 October 2008 ).
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Sierra Leone: Six months in Sierra Leone
Global Voices Online, MA
A Sierra Leonean blogger writes. When I first got here my sense of purpose was strong and comforting.
Traditional festival of the Ogboni Fraternity in Sierra Leone …
NgEX, MI
The festival, known as Isese Day in Yoruba was cancelled when Christian protesters surrounded the venue, praying, chanting and carrying placards. The church members turned the occasion into a demon-casting and the leader of the church said his church decided to do it in the interest of God and the spiritual well-being of Sierra Leone. He said that if the cult is allowed to be established in Sierra Leone, virgins will start disappearing and dead bodies with their private parts and other organs removed will start being discovered. The Nigerian Union in Sierra Leone says it condemns any activity that threatens the peace and cooperation between Nigeria and Sierra Leone.