Africa rejoices . . .

I'm sure our supporters are mixed in their enthusiasm for the outcome of the presidential race in America. But there is no mistaking the enthusiasm here. Ugandans are smiling broadly. Today we had kids chanting "Obama Obama" as we drove by on the road. We actually tuned into the satellite radio early this morning (pre-midnight in the US) and heard projections but tight races . . . then after prayer meeting we turned the radio back on in time to catch Obama's speech, listening as a team, with our kids, here in Africa, his nostalgic rhetoric seeming substantial and historic in the growing morning light. At the very least the sheer fact that a man whose father was Kenyan could become president of the United States gives the average person here in Uganda a sense of pride, of possibility, of redemption, of interest in the potential for America to turn towards Africa in real ways.