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- Barack Obama - US election 2008 - USA
Obama’s election viewed from around the world
Barack Obama's election has stirred the winds of change inside and outside America. From Nairobi to Washington via Baghdad or even Phoenix, our correspondents report on how Obama’s victory left people across the world awestruck.
Watch our Reporters programme: "From Harlem to LA, African-Americans turn out to vote for Obama"
Read France 24's special coverage, "Obama makes history".
In this edition of France 24’s magazine dedicated to the reporting profession, we take another look at the year's most eagerly awaited event: the election of the first black US president to the White House.
Barack Obama promised hope and change, and it is these that Americans have chosen. By the time of Obama’s victory celebration in Chicago, the tears of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, himself an unsuccessful candidate for several Democratic nominations, joined with those of millions of other Americans.
From Kenya to Washington, DC, by way of Baghdad or Phoenix, Arizona, our special correspondents covered the key events in a historic election that resounded across the world.
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We got there
God bless America
America came of age when it voted for Barack Obama
The years of pent up feelings of despair bf the Afro-Americans from the era of the American Civil War came to an end on November 4, 2008. Afro-Americans have left behind Uncle Tom's Cabin and taken the White House not by violence, but by the an election. Indeed American has come into the 21st century.via the Ballot Box and that speaks volumes for democracy.
Now all Americans can really call the U.S.A. home without rancour, because they have put their faith in democracy, freedom and justice. It should have been a day when all the church bells rang out to usher in a New Birth of Freedom, such as never before seen in American history. God Bless America!