Intermission

For a little over a year now, my wife and I have been working on a move back to Africa to pursue a venture or two. It’s finally happening.  As a result, it would appear wise to put this blog on hold in the interim. I look forward to resuming normal blog posts once we have completely moved and settled.

I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this forum in any shape or form.  Your time, generosity, and insight have been greatly appreciated.  Let’s continue the exchanges as soon as I am fully based in Africa. In the interim you can follow me on Twitter where I will continue to drop occasional “tweets” before reverting to my typical blogging next year.

Allow me to wish one and all an enjoyable festive season, and an exceptional New Year!  Stay well.

Why Obama Won

The dust is beginning to settle.  The best of us are still trying to figure out how a relatively inexperienced African-American senator managed to charm his way into our children’s history books. Speaking at an Obama rally in Florida this past Saturday, comedian Chris Rock seemed certain why Barack Obama would win the race to the White House:

“He got a good chance because he’s Kenyan.  And you can’t bet a Kenyan at a race.   Nothing like a Kenyan, boy.  You got on a plane right now to New York and I got on a Kenyan, I’d beat you there.”

I’ll buy that one.  The big question now is: Can Barack Obama also sweep and dust the floor?  There’s a lot of dirt in Washington from the past eight years that needs cleaning up!  (Hat-tip to the St. Petersburg Times).

A Mixed Bag – 03/11/2008

I managed to complete a full week without posting anything to this blog – a testament to how crazy a week can get.  It suffices to say the world didn’t stop rotating around its axis in the interim. Some of the trivia and madness catching my attention:

>> The renewed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  As if there isn’t enough strife on the continent already. I have to say the speed at which David Miliband (the British Foreign Secretary) and his French counterpart descended on the DRC caught me totally by surprise.  Where were the African leaders by the way?

>> I still shed bucketloads of tears (of laughter), and end up on the living room floor weak and incapacitated courtesy of Nhlanhla Nene’s misfortune.  May I hasten to add that I can afford this luxury purely on the basis that Chairman Nene was not seriously injured or maimed by the incident. Chair Man – get it?

>> Obama’s aunt can’t say she didn’t get her moment in the limelight.

>> And most significantly, my mortality was put to the test yesterday evening courtesy of Lewis Hamilton.  My heart almost caved in during those final moments in Sao Paolo.  Not for the faint-hearted!