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Africans are caught up in Obama’s hope

KAMPALA, Uganda✦

So you think you feel good about what unfolded south of Canada’s border on Nov. 4?

You should see the party in Africa.

There has been dancing in the streets, public holidays and general high-fives from nationals to diplomats to expatriates, all convinced that, as one Ugandan paper put it, “America is reborn.”

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Time for US Democrats to fight fire with fire

Recently travelling back from Canada to Uganda through London, England – capital of history’s most influential empire – I got some renewed perspective on global leadership and change and how, in politics, there’s nothing like old-fashioned fear to move things along.

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