Obama's Speech An Intellectual Vindication

George Ayittey writes:

I listened to Obama’s speech with a bemused sense of vindication. To many of us, what he was saying was not new. We have known of these “self-evident truths” for decades – just that we were afraid to say so openly or publicly. The courageous editors, journalists and writers who did say so, were punished severely with beatings and prison terms; some, such as Dele Giwa of Nigeria, paid the ultimate price. Nor could one do so in North America.