The Inauguration of Barack Obama
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703 newspaper front pages from 66 countries on 5 November 2008
The Newseum has a collection of front page images from 730 newspapers on 5 November 2008: http://www.newseum.org/…rchive.asp It is interesting to see how many made Obama’s victory a front page story. It may be safe to assume that there would have been front page coverage of the election results in as many papers if the …
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-US: Exorcising the Ghosts of Slavery
By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Nov 5 (IPS) – On the island where the African slave trade was first introduced to the western hemisphere in 1520, the United States embassy in Santo Domingo hosted more than 1,000 people to view the possible election of the son of an African to the U.S. presidency. While …
Kenya declares national holiday in celebration of Barack Obama’s presidential victory
The election of America’s first black president, Barack Obama, has a special resonance in Africa – the home continent of his father. It was greeted with scenes of wild celebration in his home village of Nyangoma Kogelo, in the green, gently rolling hills of western Kenya, the provincial capital Kisumu, and Nairobi. Thursday has been …
