The Africana Media Blog

There is a new sheriff at the Nigeria house in New York.... Well, last Wednesday, May 7, the Mission had a party to introduce her to the diplomatic community, and this is where I found things to be a lot different from what was happening in the past.  Okay, I was driving through Nigeria House on 2nd Avenue and 44th Street in the evening of Tuesday, May 6, when I saw all these workers sand-blasting the front of that edifice, the best investment that Nigeria ever made.  I parked my car and looked around.  Yeah, there was a lot of cleaning of the front going on that night.

“One of the things that was said was he looked people in the eye and Hillary didn’t. That’s big for me, as a police officer. “

Then I looked at the actual figures coming in from both States, and shouted Holy Moses, what has the “Teflon Candidate” done here, mow down his opponent to size, wow Jesus of Nazareth, mind you I am a Godanist strictly African belief a belief that says we had our God before the advent of the white imperialists, Chukwu, Chineke, but this day okay this evening I was ready to invoe His name.  I went to the refrigerator and poured a good amount of white wine.  It needed celebration, all the polls were wrong, wrong, wrong, except the not-so-trusted Zogby that has been quite off in this election circle.

In conclusion, Obama has suffered a lot of brutal bruises, inflicted on him by the press and the Clinton campaign’s kitchen strink strategy.  Any other candidate would have wilted in the face of the massive assaults, but this candidate has shown more mettle in the face of enemy fires.  Despite his losses in Ohio, Texas and recently in Pennsylvania, more super-delegates are flocking to endorse him because of his principled positions on issues, for example the gas tax, thereby reducing significantly Senator Clinton’s edge in the super-delegates’ count to less than 20, while maintaining 135 edge in pledged delegates.  His win in Guam yesterday, despite what the detractors consider as non-stetlar performance, reinforces his resilience, after all it was his opponent who told us that 50+1 is a win, in this case, 50+7 is a big win.  Only a teflon candidate, in the mode of Ronald Reagan, could achieve that, and that individual is Senator Barack Obama, the Teflon Candidate. 

UNIVERSITY CLUB, New York, Apr. 30 - The International Crisis Group today honored President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the Fred Cuny Award for the Prevention of Deadly Conflict for her outstanding leaderhip in democracy, development and peacebuilding in Africa.