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The First White President The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. This essay is drawn from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, We Were Eight Years in Power.

IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but …

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Kenya’s Supreme Court orders rerun of disputed presidential election – CNN

The Kenyan Supreme Court has overturned the election of the Kenyan president and ordered another election within 60 days. The general basis of the ruling was not that there was malfeasance and rigging but a sufficient breach of form and protocol. This was a brave ruling given the grounds it based it historical decision. The …

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International Election Observation and Monitoring (video)

The quick acceptance by the international election observers of the outcome of the vote was the operation of low expectation syndrome for anything African. Again even Africans suffer from similar syndrome. The electoral and judicial development is a welcome one for Africa and hopefully for the rest of the world. Do not support what you …

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Otunba Ademola Adeleke, the younger brother of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke for whose replacement the election was held, dances to victory. He beat the APC candidate, Senator Mudashir Hussein.

​​ ​ When Senator Isiaka Adeleke from Osun state and APC senator died, the search for his replacement started in ernest.  His younger brother, Otunba Ademola Adeleke felt entitled to fill the vacancy. But he had a higher opinion of himself than his colleagues within the APC who opined that he was not a serious …

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