PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE SANDS OF TIME

Barry, Barrack, Senator, President!!!!!!! History never stops to amaze one in ways a little difficult to understand.

But often some do end up seemingly amazing history itself. How time  flies. Guess it seemed like yesterday that Mr. Obama gave his first victory speech on the 4th of November, 2008. Till today the key words of that motivating speech still resonate through my eardrum every now and then.

Hear Obama "if there is anyone who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our fathers is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer".

And thus began the road to limelight, fame, reputation,  power, and whatever you can imagine. After almost eight years of sitting at the oval office and calling the shots from there, what will probably remain for everyone including Mr. Obama is history.

For the reckoning of the human mind, after February 2nd, 2017, America will never again have a 44th President. America will never again have Mr. Barack Obama as its commander-in-chief. American will never again have a Michelle Obama as its First Lady and also Sasha and Malia as daughter of its first family.

The fan is about to turn and like life, it never comes back to the same old position.

Like all great leaders before him, President Barack Obama will, no doubt, be remembered for a lot of things; the good, the bad and the ugly. Whichever one is for us to decide and for history to vet and possibly endorse or disapprove

While that happens, the young man from Illinois,Chicago has acted out his own big scene on the world's stage and is about to go out of spectacular spotlight.

In Obama, we find the dream child and realization of Martin Luther King (Jnr) dream about American living up to its creed. The creed that American's founding fathers echoed that all  men are born equal and independent and that they have certain inalienable rights like preservation of life, freedom and pursuit of happiness.

Malcom X spoke about this creed, Marcus Garvey fought for it, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned because of it, Martin Luther King (Jnr.) dreamt about it but in the end, it was Barack Obama who lived the dream.

With regard to how well this dream had been lived, let us leave that till the chickens come home to roost. In the meantime, history knows very well that the the blood of the African slaves have not been shed in vain neither has the Black African struggle been for nothing.