'He's the other. It's in the Bible'

There is nothing unusual about mixed-race people in the South, although in decades past there was no ambiguity about the subject.

'He is my Mandela'

'Dem youthboy defied every order and turned a senator', says a Cameroonian reggae song that captures the country’s rapture with Obama.

A cow called Obama

Fredrick Mugira visits rural Uganda to find out what country folk think of the US presidential candidate.

Borrow, buy, burn, bail out

With the United States election just around the corner, who'd want to be in the shoes of either front-runner Barack Obama or John McCain?

Africans drunk on Obama

But a greater lesson lies in the US election, writes C Don Adinuba.

Pouts, pecs and power suits

Millions of Americans aren’t just redoing their hair for Palin -- they’re taking off their clothes too.

Sounds like us, looks like us?

Obama may have African roots, but Burundians disagree on his allegiances to the continent, writes Haydee Bangerezako.

He's not just a pretty face

Barack Obama is a human magnet, pulling Africans towards him -- even in politically-warped Zimbabwe, writes Chief K Masimba Biriwasha.

Obama's face -- Obama's race

The radicalism of Barack Obama lies not in his policies but in his face, writes Mark Danner.

Blurring the foreign policy lines

Obama and McCain differ on the uses of American power, but who is the hawk and who is the dove, asks David E Sanger.

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