Canadian Pride and Obamania

Just a few interesting happenings on nationality I wanted to share with you. I am not sure if all Canadians share
my thoughts, but to me I really have grown up proud to be Canadian, a small people, but great in hockey,
peacekeeping, and healthcare (for the most part), and being kind and having great traveling respect worldwide.
So I have had to swallow my Canadian pride on coming here. If people ask where I am from I do say I am Canadian.
But to them there is no difference between USA and Canadian. I have people ask me if Canada is run by the US.
I am learning to give up my nationality in a way. At first I would stand up for my country, when church members
would call me American I would correct them and say no I am Canadian, but now it's water off the ducks back.
You may be more interested in how Africa is dealing with Obamania. You have probably seen on the news
celebrations across Africa for the first African-American president. Here there has not been much really jubilous
times, but people have talked about it. In the bigger city like Cotonou, the bars have special Obama night. There is
a friends of Obama in Benin club which had a party after his inauguration. Around the same time there was the naming of
new University to built in Benin, called the Obama Barak Afro-American University. What the new president means
for the future of Africa and the world, I will leave that to time and God's hands.