Obama's Presidency in History

Already, a record of some sort had been made with the first “Black White House” ever in history to which President-elect Barack Hussein Obama could just become the first ever political personality of African descent to rule a most powerful nation throughout the history of the world. He’s the first at that.

Or I might be a bit mistaken.

Prominent black rulers have been noted in the past like for example the Black Pharaohs of Egypt who had conquered the Nile after venturing from deep Africa in 728 B.C… Also referred to as the Nubian Kings by many historians, coming from a location that is now present-day Sudan, these African conquerors had made great impact in Dynastic Egypt, reuniting the often tattered kingdoms that had been devastated by petty territorial warlords aiming to control power over the fertile Nile Valley.

Another black personality was Haile Selassie I, the Ethiopian emperor who had gained cultic adulation from not only among black people in Africa but throughout the world, he who had been believed to be a descendant of King Solomon and even referred as a god-incarnate. Emperor Selassie was a defining figure in the entire African history. His followers have been called as Rastafarians.

And And then there was Shaka Zulu, Africa’s most-well known warrior and ruler of the great Zulu tribe in southern Africa. He was well-known for innovating very clever war tactics that even with just a miniscule army of tribal fighters, he was able to conquer and reunite the entire southern hemisphere of Africa, sometime in the early 1800’s.

Or perhaps, we could include Idi Amin, the Ugandan military dictator, often feared and dreaded by his own people, among the lists of well-known African rulers. But he was such a notorious guy that he shouldn’t be noted at all in any list.