Recent Posts Tagged With 'Barack Obama'

• Indecision 2009

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 02:34 in Barack Obama, usa, troops, policy, afghanistan, decision, surge

• On Cartooning

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 00:38 in Barack Obama, cartoons, kenya, Napoleon, hitler, stalin, benjamin franklin, nobel peace prize, thomas nast, clay bennet, william tweed, herb block

  Knife-edged and salient, there is no simpler or more effective form of journalism than the editorial or political cartoon. The message – usually critical – is instantaneous, and often funny. For over half a millenium cartoonists have exposed abus...

• Rumble in the Jungle

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 09:32 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, usa, tough love, jendayi frazer, africa policy

• Obama Comes To Africa

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 21:51 in africa, Barack Obama, democracy, ghana

• Not On His Watch?

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 23:48 in africa, Barack Obama, trade, George Bush, cambodia, us, apparel, bill clinton, textiles, least developed countries, agoa, rosa whitaker

  This from Rosa Whitaker, former Assistant US Trade Representative to Africa, serving under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and now President and CEO of The Whitaker Group (TWG), a Washington, DC-based consultancy specializing in trade and ...

• Preaching Water, Drinking Wine

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 13:11 in Barack Obama, Islam, usa, egypt, pakistan, war on terror, speech, muslims, afghanistan, cairo, al qaida, clash of civilisations

• The Handover

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 01:33 in Barack Obama, George Bush, iraq, George W. Bush, White House, jimmy carter, bill clinton, inauguration, credit crunch

  Is it a sign of white America's nervousness with an Obama presidency that they summoned all living former (and soon-to-be-former) Presidents to the White House to advise him on the challenges he will soon be facing? Such a gathering had not happenedÂ...

• Election Dance-Off

  Posted on Sunday November 16th, 2008 at 23:05 in Barack Obama, john mccain, us elections

  Crumpin' you can believe in!...

• The Absurdity of Hopelessness

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 15:00 in africa, Barack Obama, us elections, raila odinga, otieno kajwang

  First we were the only country in the world to declare a public holiday to honour the election of a foreign head of state. That was bad enough. But our national obsession with Barack Obama knows no bounds. Our MPs have declared their intention to ho...