Barrack Obama returns home and is wildly cheered :: Mmegi Online

Barack Obama the US President must have felt good hearing the loud cheers and applause from his audiences in Kenya, his father’s homeland and therefore his ancestral home; he received even louder cheers and applause in Addis Ababa where he addressed the AU, the powwow of the continent’s ‘baas-boys.

Typical of the supervisor, he had to tell the herd-boys a thing or two on how to maximise their efforts for better returns for Globalisation Inc.

The Yankees must have felt good watching their foresight of having absorbed a Kenyan in their midst, when they did. Migrants’ welcome as opposed to xenophobia, in one’s country is not a bad policy in the long run. Our rulers should learn from the US. Her openhanded immigration policy netted immigrants from all lands and continents who eventually helped to diversify, not only the culture, but the economy, making US not only the richest country on earth, but the most cosmopolitan and a world superpower to boot.

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