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Source text - French Jeune Afrique, France
Obama, for All Time!
Obama, encore et toujours !
Je le sens, nous allons vivre sur une réserve d’optimisme pendant un moment encore. Merci Obama. Vous nous avez fait, le temps d’une grande élection, oublier nos petits soucis, nos mésententes de couple, notre pouvoir d’achat à la baisse, notre compte dans le rouge. Vous avez fait souffler un vent de liesse sur nos foyers, comme sur la planète, cela ne nous était pas arrivé depuis longtemps. Plus exactement, depuis que votre prédécesseur s’est mis dans la tête de guerroyer contre « l’axe du Mal ». Grâce à vous, nous avons vécu un moment magique que nous ne voulons pas effacer si vite de nos mémoires, il sera notre « matelas des vieilles », nous comptons dessus pour les mauvais jours : un petit nuage qui obstrue l’horizon, et hop ! l’amulette Barack(a) !
Dans le phénomène Obama, il y a quelque chose, en effet, qui dépasse la politique. Une sorte de faveur du destin, un moment particulier de l’Histoire, le sourire de l’ange au-dessus de nos têtes, une humanité en qui nous pouvons encore espérer. Ce soulagement a une raison essentielle : un Noir présidera au destin de la plus grande puissance du monde, ce qui veut dire que l’apartheid des esprits est tombé.
Et cela donne à réfléchir, n’est-ce pas ? Voyez la France ! Allons-y les gars, il faut faire comme l’oncle Sam, ne pas être épinglé comme le dernier de la classe. Soudain, les « minorités » raflent tout, de la politique à la littérature, un préfet par-ci, un lauréat par-là, un comptage de têtes brunes sur le petit écran blanc… Que d’excès de zèle ! Tant et si bien que la preuve est donnée : en France, il y avait peu de mesures positives et concrètes en matière de traitement juste à l’égard des gens du Sud. Le fait de s’y mettre au pied levé s’apparente à un effet d’annonce ridicule.
Respirez donc, gens de la politique ! Prenez de la hauteur, et du temps ! Ne soyez pas imitatifs, élaborez une stratégie authentique et réfléchissez convenablement. Revenez d’abord sur des aberrations du genre « bienfaits de la colonisation », ne laissez pas les Noirs mourir sur des barques de fortune, donnez le Goncourt à un Afghan, d’accord, mais secourez ses compatriotes qui mendient l’exil, le basané qui rase les murs parce qu’il n’a pas de papiers, le Beur Mohamed qui, à peine son nom prononcé, se voit recalé, le musulman dont deux poils sur le menton vous fichent la trouille. Après, vous passerez aux nominations ostensibles. Et vous aurez l’obligeance, j’espère, de reconnaître qu’il y a des associations qui s’échinent depuis des lustres à vous mettre le nez sur le dossier, sans que vous fassiez grand-chose. -Comme quoi, le levier de la France, ce n’est pas la validité de sa société civile, mais la validation de l’exemple étranger.
Maalech !, comme diraient les Égyptiens. Nous n’allons pas faire la fine bouche. Mais nous tenons à saluer le possible de l’Amérique d’Obama et puiserons volontiers dans la « caisse à vitalité » américaine, qui s’est vidée de ses sous, peut-être, mais s’est remplie d’un stock de valeurs inesti¬mables : celles de la justice et de la démocratie.
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Translation - English Jeune Afrique, France
Obama, for All Time!
I’m pretty sure of myself; again we’re about going through a time of optimism for a while. Thank you Obama. During the time of an unforgettable election, you helped us to forget our slight worries, our disagreements within couple, our purchasing power on the decline, our overdrawn account. Thanks to you, our households as well as the planet were run through with general rejoicing; such a thing happened a long time ago. More precisely, since your predecessor decided to wage war on “the axis of evil”. Thanks to you, we have had some good times we would like to have remained engraved in our memory, it will work as our “old ladies mattress”, we can count on for the bad times: just a drop of cloud that block the horizon then crash! the magic of Barack!
With the Obama phenomenon, there’s indeed something that is beyond politics. A sort of blow from fate, a special time as part of history, a happy smile above our heads, a world we can trust in again. That relief has good reasons to be: a Black will rule over the greatest power in the world, in another word, the mental apartheid is over.
Actually it gives food for thought, doesn’t it? Come on French people! Let’s go, boys; we have to do like Uncle Sam, not be pinned down like someone bottom of his class. So that means, the “minorities” are making a clean sweep of everything, from politics to literature, a prefect here, a prizewinner there, a counting of dark-haired people on the white screen of television…What an overzealousness ! So much so that the proof is now given: in France, there were less positive and practical actions as regards a good treatment of people who live in the south. Putting your energy into it at a moment’s notice has the same effect with a ridicule advertisement.
Politicians, that’s enough now! Be good boys and don’t act rashly! Don’t be imitative, develop a personal strategy and give things a lot of thought. First, come round to nonsense like “the benefits of colonization”; don’t let the Blacks die on makeshift boats, award an Afghan the Goncourt is good but please help his compatriots who are shamefully requesting for the exile, the dark-skinned people hugging the wall for lack of identity papers, Mohamed the Beur, who’s blocked once his name is pronounced, the Muslim whose few beard on the chin gives you the creeps. Next, you’ll take time to deal with conspicuous appointments. But, I hope you’ll be kind enough to acknowledge that there are associations which, for ages, were making a great effort to draw your attention without your doing much; which just goes to show that, the means of pressure of France, do not lie in the ability of its non-trading company but in the copying of the foreign countries models.
Maalech! As Egyptians say. We are not going to be fussy. But we’re keen on saluting the future of Obama’s America and will happily go deeper into the American “resources coffer” maybe empty of its savings but now full of a priceless stock: that of justice and democracy.
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United Nations Organization, New York, NY, United States of America
●Translated into French the UNOCI documents to be used in the field by the coordination UNPOL-FPU
Interpreted from English to French and vice versa for the UNOCI police department.
UNESCO- World Heritage Centre , Paris, France
A UN affiliation encouraging countries in the conservation of our world’s cultural and natural heritage.
●Translated ‘The Memory of the World’’ project to be comprehended in the French speaking countries.
Watching America, Glendale, Arizona, United States of America
A US newspaper website republishing opinions about the United States written in foreign languages
●Translated for helping¬ Amer¬i¬cans to comprehend whatever foreign newspapers write about the USA
Nationalities Service Center, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
A non-profit organization that provides social, educational and legal services to immigrants.
●Interpreted as independent contractor from English into French and vice versa in medicine and law field.
Grameen Foundation, Washington DC, United States of America
An international NGO fighting poverty by providing access to microfinance services among the poor.
●Translated into French the publications of the project to be read and understood in French speaking areas
Palm Solutions NGO, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
A US-based NGO encouraging the African Diaspora to promote social development in their homelands.
●Translated into French their publications to ensure the understanding of all the French speakers in US.
Price Water House Coopers, Office of Abidjan, Ivory Coast
The world's largest professional services firm and the most important of the accountancy firms.
●Translated from English into French financial documents for making them available to a wide public.
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