Elections in the US are gaining momentum as the day, dubbed the Super Tuesday, which is awaited by every politically conscious US citizen, comes ever closer.

The battle for the ‘Almighty White House’ seems to be more between the Democrats than the Republicans, or at least so we are made to believe.

This is because the Democratic party has on offer two very controversial choices; a black man and a woman presidential aspirants. In any case, if what we get from the press all over the US is anything to go by, then America is set to make history.

Hundreds of kilometres away, across the Atlantic Ocean, post-election turmoil grows as the turbulence continues to spread in Kenya.

These two countries share something striking about them these days: Barak Obama of the US Demoratic party and Raila Odinga of the ODM. The issue is not just because these two are  black, but also because they share blood, and, most importantly, they both stand to make a record in the political terrain of their respective counries.

In Kenya, Obama’s paternal cousin, Raila Odinga, is battling it out for Kenya’s equivalent of the White House. But there is more to  that quest for political power; there has been this talk of an ingrained tribal stunt that dominates his Kenya, a fact that is responsible for his seemingly unsurpassable drive to put a stop to it. Unlike his Illinois senator cousin, Mr Odinga is finding his way through rough terrains, but with a rather genuine complaint which, we must emphasise, is by no means a warrant for the bloodletting spree. Mr Odinga is at the service of his Luo tribe against the Kikuyu tribe that, like the Anglo-Saxon tribe in America, has dominated Kenyan politics since independence.

Over two hundred years of US independence has seen only the Anglo-Saxon tribe occupying the White House. Like his Luo kinsman, this is what Mr Obama Jr, the son of Barak Hussain Obama Snr is seeking to put a stop to.

While it takes the likes of all the big names in Africa to calm down the already boiling situation in Kenya, by either bringing Kibaki to his lost senses or miraculously convincing Odinga to dispose of his obssessive taste for power, it would take the judgmental, powerfully placed western media establishment to put a stop to the ‘deluded’ black man intent on breaking what would certainly have been a taboo to the founding fathers of modern America; but the legendary Martin Luther King Junior will surely have approved of it. He probably would say: ‘But I dreamt it, didn’t I?’

Already CNN has gone beyond limit in portraying Obama as the  intruding African in the American political scene. America was shown pictures of Obama’s Kenyan grandmother as well as Obama Senior’s grave in the heart of that Obama estate, with a photo of Obama the US senator on the wall.

All this is unmistakably a clear message to the racially charged US voters that ‘open your eyes’, this man is not one of us, not Anglo-Saxon.