Jeune Afrique, France: Obama, for All Time!

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Obama, for All Time!


By Fawzia Zouari
Translated By Sami Harrati
7 December 2008
Edited by Jessica Tesoriero
France - Jeune Afrique - Original Article (French)



I feel it, we will live in optimism again for a while. Thank you, Obama. You've made us, at the time of a great election, forget our little concerns, our husband-wife disagreements, our declining purchase power and our account in the red.

You blew a wind of jubilation on our homes, and on the whole world. That has not happened to us in a long time. More precisely, since your predecessor was possessed by the idea of warring against the "Axis of Evil".

Thanks to you, we had a magical moment that we do not want to erase hastily from our memory, for it will be our refuge. We will be relying on it for bad days: a small cloud blocks the horizon, and bingo -- The Barack amulet!

In the Obama phenomenon, there is indeed something that exceeds politics. A kind of favorable destiny, a special moment in history, the smile of the angel above our heads, a humanity that can give us hope.

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So, breathe, politicians! Take some distance, and time! Do not copy, but develop a genuine strategy and think properly. Focus first of all on aberrations such as "benefits of colonization." Do not let blacks die on boats; giving the Goncourt to an Afghan, no problem; but rescue his fellows who are begging for refuge, the dark-skinned who beats the walls because he does not have the proper papers, the North African Mohamed who is bound to fail once his name is pronounced, and the Muslim whose chin hairs scare you to death. Afterwards, you make conspicuous nominations. And I hope you'll be kind enough to recognize that there are associations who have been toiling for ages to get you involved, and you doing not much at all.

As such, the leverage of France is not the validity of its civil society but the validation of the foreign model.

"Maalesh!" as Egyptians would say. We will not turn up our noses. But we would like to commend the effort of Obama’s America and draw on the American “vitality fund,” which may be emptied of money but filled with priceless values: justice and democracy.