"Here's a quick quiz culled from the opinion pages in Ghana, where I'm teaching this summer: Who is the imperialist race traitor waging war on Africa?
The answer, of course, is Barack Obama.
The reason is the bombing of Libya, which is immensely unpopular over here. And so is Obama, who stands accused of betraying his own African heritage.
That's a big change from the last time I taught in Ghana, during Obama's state visit in 2009. His smiling face was everywhere, from T-shirts and soccer balls to billboards and murals. The entire nation was gripped by "Obama Fever," as Ghanaians called it, welcoming the first African-American president back to the continent where his father was born.
You can still see Obama's likeness around town these days, especially in the tourist areas. But for many Ghanaians, the honeymoon with Barack Obama is over. And it started to go sour when the first warplanes strafed Benghazi and Tripoli, in a NATO effort to protect civilians from strongman Moammar Gadhafi:.............READ MORE.
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