The View From Your Election: Africa

A reader writes:

I’m an American living in Gabon, in west central Africa. After reading what other international readers have written you tonight, I thought I’d add that the Gabonese (and many Africans living here from numerous countries across the continent) are euphoric at the thought that a man with (as they call it) "African blood" could possibly become president of the United States. There is a palpable sense of excitement in the air, and as I sit here at nearly two in the morning watching the US news from thousands of miles away I feel proud to be from the country that made this possible. I can only begin to imagine what an Obama election could mean for the entire world.