i went to an election party thrown by nyu's exchange program in the yard of a hotel in downtown accra. seeing as we're something like 5 hours ahead of the east coast, it didn't start until 11, when the first polling stations closed. there were 200 to 300 expats, students and ghanians there camped out in front a giant screen alternately playing cnn and aljazera (sp?). the moment when the polls on the west coast closed at four in the morning and obama was announced the winner will be imprinted in my memory forever. everybody started screaming and sobbing and jumping and dancing and singing all at once. women were on the ground praying and college boys were dog piling each other and ghanians were waving the american flag and blowing horns. i'm pretty sure i'm on ghana cable t.v. group hugging perfect strangers with tears streaming down my face with the Barak Obama regae song from kenya blasting on the speakers. just as obama appeared to make his acceptance speech, the sun started to rise from behind the screen and it was morning.
yes we can.
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kids here were jumping into the fountain in front of the scientology church. people were running in the streets, cars were honking, i could hear screams from neighbors.
it's hard not to be a cornball about all this, huh.
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