Change at White House, no change for Africa

By the look of things, there is every possibility that he just might. The reasons are largely historical and cultural, arising from Africa's connectedness to the Americas starting with the slave trade, and hardened by the 400 years of the ensuing struggles of black folk against institutionalised racism expressed in the segregationist laws of the American South, and various forms of colonialism in Africa.

And so evolved the African American phenomenon known world wide as 'Jazz', and much more scientifically as 'Afro-American folk music'. It is for that reason - among others - that Obama could quip, "Well, we still have to see whether the brother can dance', in response to the claim by the American journalists, that Hillary's husband, Bill, was America's 'first black President'.