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Barack Obama |
A true "Afrinam" and a senator from Illinois |
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"But I welcome the opportunity to serve, perhaps, as a role model for African-American young people who aspire to public office, and I welcome the opportunity to help frame the debate in terms of how we move away from a racially polarized society toward one that is actually going to be good for all people." he had stated
" ... America,... stood as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before."
""My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."
"And I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters."
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Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. While studying in the USA his father met his mother Ann Dunham, a white American who was born in a town, in Kansas.
As Obama stated in his key note address that he delivered at the Democratic National" Convention in July 2004, "My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British."
Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based groups with programs for the improvement of living conditions in poor neighborhoods. He was the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review in the Harvard Law School from where he graduated from in 1991 .
Barack Obama has been in public service as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, leader in the Illinois state Senate and now as a US senator. Sworn into office on January 4, 2005 , Senator Obama serves on the important Environment and Public Works Committee, which oversees legislation and funding for the environment and public works projects throughout the country. He also serves on the Veterans ’ Affairs Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee.
Married in 1992, Obama is a proud husband to Michelle and father of two daughters, Malia, 7 and Sasha, 4. Obama and his wife were resident in Chicago ’s South Side where they attended Trinity United Church of Christ.
Obama is a role model worthy of the highest honor that can bestowed on him by his community, his peers and AFRINAM. We honor him this day. Some excerpts of his address capture the essence of his character, vision, appreciation, humility and strength.
"But I welcome the opportunity to serve, perhaps, as a role model for African-American young people who aspire to public office, and I welcome the opportunity to help frame the debate in terms of how we move away from a racially polarized society toward one that is actually going to be good for all people." he stated
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"Father of super computer" Coming soon |
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Flash Back: Clinton Extols Emeagwali as a "Great Mind" [Excerpt from his televised speech, as president]
"One of the great minds of the Information Age is a Nigerian American named Philip Emeagwali. He had to leave school because his parents couldn't pay the fees. He lived in a refugee camp during your civil war. He won a scholarship to university and went on to invent a formula that lets computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second. Some people call him the Bill Gates of Africa.
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