Barack Obama – Thought Leader

Walk the talk, Obama: Help Africa get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council

Walk the talk, Obama: Help Africa get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council

By Reader Blog on 2 August 2016

I am currently in the United States as a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow; President Obama’s initiative for emerging young African leaders. I have spent six…

Farewell Cuba

By Terri Barnes on 22 March 2016

Barack Obama is in Havana tonight. What a sentence. From here in the belly of the beast, surrounded by the army, the army reserve, the…

Obama and Kenyatta’s clash over LGBTI rights highlights the need for a much-needed discussion

By Reader Blog on 3 August 2015

By Stephen Buchanan-Clarke President Obama’s visit to Kenya as the first sitting US president will likely be remembered most for the strong stand he voiced…

The Donald adds an Obama-like spark to 2016 race

By Reader Blog on 23 July 2015

By Perry Munzwembiri After years of “Obama-mania”, following President Barack Obama’s brilliance on the campaign trail, the 2016 White House race just needed something that…

Lessons in speechwriting: Obama on Madiba

By Reader Blog on 19 December 2013

By Rob Turrell I listened to Barack Obama’s speech about Nelson Mandela at FNB Stadium last Tuesday week in awe. I had read his tribute…

A Philip K Dick nightmare

By Christopher Rodrigues on 17 September 2013

Even though an American is four times more likely to be killed by lightning, there’s no greater bogeyman in the Anglo-American body politic than the…

Zuma and Obama tango to the Death March

By William Saunderson-Meyer on 6 July 2013

The timing of United States President Barack Obama’s two-day state visit to South Africa was less than ideal. Overshadowing the political arena was a looming,…

Mandela – what lies beneath?

By Reader Blog on 2 July 2013

By Sipho Singiswa It may be hard for many to gracefully accept or admit, as has been an African tradition, that when Madiba has decided…

Obama, women and hope

Obama, women and hope

By Jen Thorpe on 1 July 2013

There I sat, five hours after leaving home, sunburned and wind chapped. I was hungry and thirsty and had spoken about engineering and women’s rights…

Sarah Palin has her once-in-a-million-year Hamlet moment

By William Saunderson-Meyer on 23 June 2013

One always knew, as with the averred statistical likelihood of a million chimpanzees with a million keyboards in a million years eventually producing the equivalent…

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