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INTRODUCTION

Who is Baraka Obama?
     To a majority of people, it was amazing to realize that before the 4th of November 2008, Baraka Obama happened to be a simple candidate to the Presidency of the United States of America – and ask ourselves if Obama's candidature was enough, to raise unanimous and worldwide support, interest, hysteria, curiosity, good and bad language, in favor and against his ideas - going as far as raising concern for his life, starting from the highest to the lowest levels - this several months before Obama was nominated the 44th President of the United States of America.
     To this, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that this book is not about “differences” between nations or between whites and blacks, Arabs and Jews, between religious and tribal groups or between all those others, smaller and bigger nations without particular cause for alarm.
     As far as I am concerned, the current preoccupying questions of color and boundaries will soon be history - because many are those existing examples whereby even the “blue blood”, more often than never, admit, mixing with the “rest” depending on circumstances.
     The British royal Princess Diana attempted openly, by befriending Dodi Alfayed, an Egyptian, but unfortunately succumbed to her audacious challenge and refusal to consider imposed subjects of inferiority and superiority of certain categories of people, her hierarchy wanted. Then followed Prince Albert of Monaco who fathered a black child with a Togolese woman above all taboos. Outside those two examples, many will agree that the world ceased having boundaries, with intermarriages and love affairs crossing borders and creating the desired world of metissage - just as no one can afford to stop nature - and, instead of challenging nature, humanity had better concentrate efforts on preserving these evident values of the future.
     Without even going as far as the United States, UK or Monaco, in France and Switzerland for example, over twenty five percent of their nationals are products of mixed marriages between Asians, Africans, Arabs and Europeans - and imagine what future these mixed generations should expect – because today, close to fifty percent of human beings have evident features of mixed blood.
     Within the African continent, Chinese immigrants, constrained by overpopulation and local government law of “one or two children for each couple”, and in search of space, employment and raw materials, have for the past ten years invaded the African continent, contracting marriages and births of African-Chinese to the extent that estimates confirm that the African continent, with its limited quota of the world population, will soon be swallowed by a world of metissage capable of eliminating the pure African population in a maximum of five hundred years to come.
     From Tanzania to Zaire, Sudan, Cameroun and Nigeria, Chinese are settling in African cities and rural areas where they trade and live like any other African native.
     Looking back to the history of what is today the United States of America’s independence, thanks to Thomas Jefferson, a political philosopher, founding father and co-author of the American Constitution, who more than others, contributed to the negotiations and revision of the American constitutional law in Philadelphia between the 11th  to 28th  June 1776, reaching an accord which was adopted by the American Continental Congress and proclaimed the independence of the United States of America on the 4th  day of July 1776.
     Thomas Jefferson himself had several children with an African slave - yet two hundred and twenty three years have had to elapsed before Americans could symbolically wipe their differences – as they remained divided between those who persisted and refused to recognize equal rights entitled to both white Americans and the descendants of African slaves exported by force, leaving behind them their respective countries and their loved ones. Two centuries of white-Americans acting against the welfare of African-Americans - who strived to build America with their sweat, under forced labor working in plantations, in industries, in mining and in construction of roads, factories and buildings at a time when machinery was still a dream to come.
     Centuries after, there still exists the same refusal by a minority of white-Americans and, to some extent, Europeans who still carry their existences along the lines of influence of their ancestors, who immigrated to occupy this vast continent, over five hundred years ago.
     In 2008, the same white American descendants of Europeans, standing between Baraka Obama and John McCain continued to refuse to acknowledge the rights of African-Americans who contributed to the wealth of America.
     This refusal by a smaller part of people, developed and contributed to a large extent, bitter arguments and divisive opinions during the 2008 US Presidential campaign whereby Obama’s African origins became an issue bigger than all other issues throughout the campaign - even though Baraka Obama is no doubt one of the most cosmopolitan Presidents America has ever had, not only for his color, but also for the diversity of his descendants spreading from Kenya to Indonesia, Ireland and the UK and further to France and Switzerland, according to sources.
     In the eyes and reasoning of those who still refuse to accept that Americans should have equal rights; Baraka Obama’s African origins were considered unfit to claim the sovereignty and the integrity of his rights to represent the United States of America despite the fact that the same right is destined to any American who undergoes a normal campaign process to occupy the White House and lead Americans, once elected democratically.
     This book is an account and a reminder of all which has been said and written about Baraka Obama, both good and bad; both truth and lies; in the local and international media, in the networks, among Americans and Europeans, among politicians, and among ordinary people like you and others, all over the world - and it is about answers to questions such as:
     What does the name “Baraka” or Barack mean and where to trace its origins and meaning?
     Why did Baraka Obama, become US best bet and choice in the 2008 Presidential campaign against McCain?
     What did international physiognomists, charactologists, morphologists, phylogenetists, psychopathologists, physiologists, physiopathologists, journalists, analysts and ordinary people, all of whom focused their eyes and cameras over Baraka Obama, say and write about him?
     Where did Baraka Obama get his energy, charisma and determination to fight through this historical campaign?
     Why did Baraka Obama sacrifice his knowledge and professional ambitions and involve himself voluntarily, in community and church activities, helping a majority of poor Americans, and earning a meager salary of $800 per month when he could have earned more, by working privately as a lawyer, several years before he was elected Senator of Illinois?
     Why did Baraka Obama’s personality nourish and motivate such active and passionate debates in the USA, in Africa, in Europe and Asia and as far as Japan and China?
     What personal prayers did Baraka Obama write on the “Wall of Lamentation” in Jerusalem, during his visit to Israel in July 2008?
     Why was Obama classified as the third most influential personality in the world by 2005 and the first, by July 2008 just as he was also classified the most fashionable and most elegant personality of the year in 2008?
     Why did McCain compare Baraka Obama’s fame to that of a “Rock Star”, and make it his main and almost only argument in his campaign against Obama?
     Why did an editor offer Baraka Obama advance payment of 1.9 million US dollars in 2005, only a few months after he was elected Senator of Illinois, requesting him to write his memoires?
     Why did Baraka Obama’s popularity increase and become the driving force of his campaign as it swayed forward progressively and never ceased, leading to his successful and victorious election of 4th November 2008?
     How did Baraka Obama transform Kenyatta’s slogan of “Harambee” to “Yes We Can”, “Grass Root” and Students4Obama Movements?
     What are Baraka Obama’s political ambitions, his goals, his denomination, his origins, his belief, his likes and dislikes?
     What does Baraka Obama think about his African origins, what does he know about Africa and what message did he reserve for the African continent?
     How and why did Baraka Obama refuse to be categorized “incapable” because of his mixed origins, classified as a strictly “African” in a white American dominant population?
     What role will Baraka Obama play and give as example of hope and courage to humanity and to all those who believe in equal human rights?
     Why did Baraka Obama and his wife Michelle take an AIDS test in public during his visit to Kenya?
     Why did Baraka Obama give advance warning to Americans over the expected effects of the world’s financial crisis which took a turning point on 15th September 2008 - brought about by eight years of political failures and wrong judgments of Georges Bush’s administration, just like he warned Americans about the danger they faced by entering into a war against Iraq well before he got into the presidential campaign?
     What did Baraka Obama do and say after he was confirmed winner on the night of 4th November 2008?
     Why did major American banks go bankrupt during Bush’s administration, particularly the last year of his presidency?
     What did Baraka Obama promise to Americans during his presidency and what should America and the world expect from him?
     How did Baraka Obama inspire the phenomenal call for unity and incite Americans to learn to share their efforts which resulted in breaking records of waves of voluntary supporters who contributed both energy and extraordinary sums of money in support of his campaign – amounting to $150 million during a single month of September, and reached a record total sum of $755 million by the end of his campaign on 4th November.
     Then after considering all these questions and answers, we might also ask ourselves if Baraka Obama is worth the notoriety and importance the world has given him and does he truly has something more or different to offer compared to former Presidents of the United States?
     And finally, what kind of President will Obama be? Will he maintain his popularity to the height of the expectations of his supporters, both poor and rich, African and white Americans and others beyond the US boundaries, despite the catastrophic economic situation and international conflicts contributed and inherited from Georges Bush?
     This book is about answers to all these questions and more.
     After discussing and considering ordinary people’s views and opinions over Baraka Obama and after following Baraka Obama’s, Hillary Clinton’s and John McCain’s campaign and debates on a day by day and month after month, and after listening to Obama’s speeches on patriotism in Ohio, race in Berlin, and after reading documents and comments from various journalists and individuals and finally, after reading Obama’s three books, written by Baraka Obama himself; “Dreams from My Father”, “The Audacity of Hope” and “Change We Can Believe In” as well as David Mendell’s book, “Obama: From Promise to Power” and after analyzing Baraka Obama’s world views as a whole, I come up with the conclusion that the existence of Baraka Obama in American politics, regardless of Obama’s future achievement as President of the United States for the next four or eight years, has revolutionized world history.
     The same way former oppressed leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Dalai Lama did - and that the mentality and boundaries which separated Americans and the world of blacks and whites, poor and rich, educated and the uneducated, Christians and Muslims and other minority religious and tribal groups for centuries, have finally, through Obama, opened possible ways of changing their situations and ways of thinking and living - among Americans and others in the world, regardless of color, origins or beliefs.
     Like former humanists and pacific revolutionists, Baraka Obama did not take arms to emphasize and spread his peaceful ideology and obtain credibility and notoriety throughout the world.
     For the same reasons, Baraka Obama will be known for having changed world opinions in many aspects which only years and history will tell because, - he not only outlined ways and means of changing the world pacifically and likely to be followed and considered by both politicians and individuals who care for their wellbeing and for their next of kin for many years to come, this, whether they accept it or not, Obama’s influence on Earth is destined to stay.
     Through this summary of the events of Baraka Obama’s Presidential campaign, I have tried to answer precise questions with a hope that I will enlighten the knowledge, the memory and the convictions of many, particularly those who saw Obama as a threat to their identity, to their economy and to their interests, while giving them the choice of keeping aside divisive temptations, knowing that no human being is better than the other, no human being is inferior to the other, no human being is cleverer than the other, and no particular group of people is capable of producing better people or better rulers than the other - simply because all human beings are equal, and that only destiny, intellectual knowledge and resulting performances of each one, added to each individual’s means to protect and defend ourselves, our ideas and our nationals may make the difference - and Obama is a living proof.
     It is also true to say that any person under the influence of poverty and hunger, and without a possible exit out of a desperate situation may consciously or unconsciously adopt and behave worse than an animal or at least beyond human norms - this, regardless of color or origins - while the same human beings, white or black, are capable of stealing, killing, lying, misbehaving and, creating wars and massacre and above all, indulging in some of the most irresponsible acts of atrocities with a hope of saving his situation.
     Needless to say, what is most unfortunate about all these differences among individuals, communities and countries, is the fact that most of the reasons which result in atrocities are manmade. They include sales of arms to irresponsible governments, encouraged transfer of funds from poor to rich countries, destruction of nature, bad distribution of wealth by international organization believed to defend trade terms between countries, religious doctrines and lack of education.
     Personally, I have seen desperate refugees who reduced their human values below imaginable levels. To obtain a certificate of survival under refugee status, they would deny their nationality, their birth dates, their family names and their qualifications. During these moments, they become “nothing”, their dignity reduced to zero, lower than considerations given to animals like dogs- which at least maintain their rights of identity.
     For such nameless and unwanted individuals, all that matters is a struggle for survival at all cost, hence, remain even more vulnerable and at the mercy of their survivors.
     As an example, an African refugee under extreme stress in Switzerland once commented - “It surprises me to realize that five hundred years ago, Africans plunged into deep seas because they did not want to be taken by force to work as slaves in new lands – but five hundred years later, Africans still plunge into the same deep seas trying to reach the same countries which invaded and shipped them by force. They are now ready to die in their desperate efforts to reach hell”.
     Such has ever been the existence and the destiny of Africans - to be used when convenient and to be rejected when not convenient. In between, they have been through forced obligations, forced labor, forced culture, forced religion, forced education and forced civilization, but also a lot of denials of their rights.
     It is these same labyrinths which swayed Africans between confusion and delight, between lost hopes and found hopes and between favors and punishment, between traditions and new civilization.
     For the same reasons, a poor person, man or woman, black or white, has no dignity, no say, no shame and no capacity to defend or express individual opinions, leave alone to be listened to – to be heard or taken seriously, particularly in the present materialistic world into which Africans have been introduced and which, more often than not, does not comply or suit their nature and traditions.
     It is not surprising that a “black” man or woman is not considered black in the western countries if he has fortune - whereby even an illiterate person can easily rub shoulders with the fortunate if he has equal sums of money or if he can pay “white” people to defend him against the worst crimes and go free.
     All these are bad examples, but they are also the same poisoning examples and the reality of the dominating world of the powerful and the powerless people in which we now live - whereby the rich and able continue to undermine the poorer. The rich and able continue to take advantage of the poorer - where the western intellectuals continue to plan and improve strategies to exploit further and take advantage of the poor - by feeding them with the cheapest reconditioned industrial foods and left overs destined to a poorer class of people who cannot afford good quality foods, thereby, worsening their already poor health without affordable treatment or health insurance coverage. They also offer them poor education and cheat them during their sales and purchase, in their house mortgages, loans and related services.
     However, it is in Iraq where the example of foreign influence and derive of recent years is most remarkable. With Saddam Hussein as the main victim and actor of his own ignorance and fate, first wooed and considered a friend and ally of the Americans before realizing much too late that he was misled, resulting in his unsuccessful revolt against Americans.
     The United States, UK and Italy participated in the meaningless and unfair war against the Iraqis in the name of Saddam used as an excuse. I say unfair war because Saddam Hussein was never the real cause of the Iraq-American conflict - he was simply a scapegoat of Georges Bush and his allies for reasons best favorable to them, or to be blunt, because of Iraq petrol.
     As it can be remembered, Saddam Hussein enjoyed American privileges and arms to engage war against his neighboring brothers in Iran and Kuwait before American leaders turned against him and finally supervised his execution by hanging.
     This book is, therefore, based on a personal eye on Baraka Obama’s force to dismantle the artifices of his country’s history and the history of the rest of the world where confusion has ruled the existence of some for a decade - based on my day to day observation and follow-up of Baraka Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joseph Biden who represented the Democrats against John McCain-Sarah Palin, throughout the 2008 American Presidential campaign events which, as days went by, became outrageously noisy, insulting, and humiliating before finally proving to be a demonstration of knowledge and technology, human conscience and understanding, generosity, compassion and understanding of the current events and situations of the world we all live in, - with all its colors and flavor of good and bad influences of money, power and domination of the minority poor.
     Besides short-lived and unfounded media criticism against Baraka Obama’s clear vision and existence without fuss and no errors worth mentioning or to call Obama’s own or which anyone could claim to accuse Obama’s righteousness, came success, and wisdom raised by his words of love, hope, reconciliation and courage to dare to overcome such differences which rung in the hearts and ears of the supporters and licensers like a lyrical love song and got in the arms of each one of us with force, spreading into each one’s convictions and awareness of the reality - including the most insensible beings, all of whom were given a clear picture and made to understand current world problems which required the forces of both Americans and the world to overcome.
     The same reasons made me conclude that Baraka Obama’s starting point was not an imaginary straight road which took him to the reality in which he now stands as President of the United States of America. Because Baraka Obama worked tirelessly and honestly to merit American and world honors – only with the grace of his speech which remained unique in the annals of history and which deserved attention.
     Throughout the year 2008, Baraka Obama’s struggle has been that of a willing man with clear conscience and urge to do away with the problems of poverty, wars, racism, global climate change, unemployment and disrespect for human values, without which no man and no country can claim victory and peace if these values are not overcome and achieved.
     Needless to say, wisdom is a gift of God, which Baraka Obama, probably more than others, received from God along with his power to transmit and share with those unlike him.
     “Baraka Obama, The African-American President” is therefore, about me, about you and about everyone else who supported his Presidential campaign in one way or another, regardless of color or origins; because Obama, is not just a half white, half black, half African, half Muslim, half Christian, half modest, half rich, half American and half Kenyan, or a sort of trademark of his country, the United States of America.
     Baraka Obama is truly one and all of the above, and he is a person worth listening to, because he has a message to give to humanity. Obama’s specific and peaceful fight for change is remarkably testified and definitely proved him right and above all, revolutionized the world more than ever before.
     By: Julie Majuva

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