Senator Cory Booker Built His Speech on an African Proverb

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The idea of being one anoth­er’s keep­er, which many Democ­rats talked about dur­ing the  Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion (DNC) in Philadel­phia, PA leads me to Cory Book­er. The sen­a­tor from New Jer­sey received lots of praise after he spoke so elo­quent­ly dur­ing the event. He is often con­sid­ered a star in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty. He was a…

Democrats and Republicans Promise to Work with African continent

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The Repub­li­can (GOP) and Demo­c­ra­t­ic nation­al polit­i­cal con­ven­tions were inter­est­ing. Of equal inter­est was the near absence of any­thing African in them. More broadly—while the con­ven­tions illu­mi­nat­ed the vast dif­fer­ences between Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans in Amer­i­ca, at least with an unusu­al nom­i­nee on the GOP side, they spelled out where both par­ties would like to take…