January 20, 2009 will be one of those days in American history that the African American community will always remember?the day Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. The world watched as the 47-year-old man placed his hand on the same burgundy velvet-colored Holy Bible that Abraham Lincoln used when he pledged to ?Preserve, protect, and defend the constitution? of a country that was about to be at war against itself. President Obama requested the Lincoln Bible, which his wife, now First Lady Michelle Obama, held as their two daughters stood by. The next day, the first-family woke up in a White House that was partially built by slaves who almost certainly did not conceive that one day the home would be occupied by the son of an African man and a White American woman.
In his inaugural address, President Obama acknowledged the tremendous challenges the country faces, including figuring out ways to begin to repair the housing market, a declining economy, job loss, and managing two wars. A lot of responsibilities rest on his shoulders, including one that is not often discussed in public and that is how might the president's life serve as an example of what can happen for those in the African American community who choose to do well in school, have a professional dream and do what is necessary to accomplish it, stays out of legal trouble, and demonstrates a personal reproductive responsibility.
?President Obama is a high-profile example of what we can achieve. Both he and his wife, also an attorney, give us new reasons to say to kids in confidence that ?yes, you can,? become whatever you want to be with hard work, dedication, and education.? said Judson Robinson, III, President and CEO of the Houston Area Urban League. He says the election of Mr. Obama does not lessen his organization's mission to champion social and economic equality in the African American community, but it reinvigorates it. ?We have many programs and outreach efforts to mentor young people on setting goals, mentoring them on how to go about achieving those goals, and why it's important to make good decisions and avoid the things that can impede their success, such as alcohol, drugs, and gangs,? said Robinson. ?When African American adults who have achieved a measure of success take the time to share what they have learned with young people, we believe there's little excuse for not meeting your Godly objectives.?
Robinson, whose father was the first in the African American community elected to Houston City Council in 1971, said he is excited to see how President Obama will lead America's recovery, but he is just as enthusiastic about the organization's efforts to serve more young people. Just a couple of weeks before the inauguration of the first African American as president, Robinson was leaving the opening of a business that tutors kids preparing for their SATs when he looked outside. ?I saw a young man who was walking down the street wearing pants that sagged so much that he had to walk with his legs almost wide open to keep his pants from falling,? he said. ?This is what gets me going every day on this job. I want to get our young people back. Talk to them about their image, what influences some of the things they are doing, and what messages about themselves they may be sending out without even knowing it.? Robinson hopes that the new president will provide a new image and serve as a role model for all in the African American community to emulate.
The country is a land of natural contrasts from the giant snow-capped mountain - Mount Kenya astride the Equator, to the splendor in the depths of the Rift Valley with a dozen lakes to choose from, rivers where crocodiles laze on the banks, mineral hot springs, Savannah teeming with giant waterfalls, dense and lush jungle the home of rare beautiful birds, described as the origin of man kind history - the list is endless.
Kenya has some of the best beaches all lined with magnificent coral reefs and yet only receives 0.7% black community arrivals. The country has always depended on tourism and the traffic from the US is seconded by the European countries, the black community statistics, from a recent study estimates that only 6 per cent of the black Americans arrived in Nairobi from the general Americans who traveled into Kenya in 2006.
Magical Africa Ltd, an online travel and tour consulting company offering Kenya safari packages is out to try and change things around. Striving to make changes and hope to realize that dream someday. The project includes discounted tariffs, with prices that rage from six hundred dollars for a week's vacation safari tour package and training of drivers and guides / hostess on cultural education and ancestral values.
To experience Kenya safaris for say, families, individuals and corporate there are specially packaged cultural tours and wildlife safaris set up end up into that well deserved beach break on the Kenyan coast with what was once the transit point during the slave trade. The beach is documented as the best vocational beach on the southern sea board.
Kids, families, friends can travel and should be allowed to rediscover and learn the origin of mankind or take part in this amazing educational safari and cultural trips. Kids programs are well laid out in most lodges and bush tented camps, they include lessons and short lectures by trained guides on traditional hunting skills, identifying animals foot prints, butterfly catching, environmental protection, masai homestead visits, helping out the masai kids in their schools tasks and identifying animal and birds sounds, teenagers could even help in projects like school constructions. This gives the parents time to me alone, sit on the hammock, read a book or sip the wine. Most are happy to join in.
?Kenyan's reassured senator Obama of their vote in the US poll in his recent visit?, then came Chris rock two months later, the Kenyan community loved and embraced these and many other black visitors.
Must go spots include The Masai Mara game reserve, Diani beach and Lamu islands. 60% of the black celebrities have at one time visited Kenya in the last five years, this can only translate to - there must be something different that interests them all.
Accommodation in Kenya will ranges from five star hotels in Nairobi and game location, Hilton, intercontinental, holiday inns among the many international brands. Game lodges are five star establishments in the middle of nowhere, just awesome views of Africa landscapes, lost of wildlife and cultural experience. Luxury tended camps is a must do, these are permanent tented establishments, an accommodation tent will come with en suite private bathroom with flash toilets, hot and cold showers, a queen size bed, lamps and a comfortable verandah some come with hammocks for that afternoon siesta, most verandas will overlook the plains or a waterhole where wildlife visits occasionally.
Meals in all major game lodges and camps are usually buffet served from the main restaurants, guaranteed you will not miss out on your favorite drinks at the main bars, you can even settle this directly at the bar using your credit card, visa or otherwise. Mid range to budget basic camping options are available in the game parks or conservation areas in Kenya, all comfortably set out to suite everyone's needs and budget.
The Magical afro Kenya project hopes to invite all brothers and sisters into the most cerebrated and natural destination ever ? Kenya.
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