Why I Won't Vote for Obama: We should be Joyful That, For the First Time in US History, An African-Descended Person has Mounted a Serious Challenge for the American Presidency. But Ama Biney would Not Vote for Obama. Here, She Explains Why (Opinion‪)‬

The majority of continental Africans and people of African descent have been euphoric at the meteoric rise of Barack Obama. For the second time in history -after the lesser known candidacy of the African-American Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in 1972-a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. Obamania has surged in Ghana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Cameroon, Kenya and elsewhere. It has produced a number of musical tributes, articles, blogs and important sentiments such as those expressed by the Congolese rapper, Youssoupha, who lives in Paris: "Obama tells us everything is possible." Certainly one of the positive impacts of the Obama campaign is that in France it has given Africans there-once referred to by President Nicholas Sarkhozy as "scum"-a new political confidence to revisit Negritude. Raising a frank dialogue about race and racism in wider French society in which African people are invisible, is also a positive outcome of Obama's political success.