Over the last two days, I asked various Tanzinians who I interacted with about Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid. You can read the entire article here, but here one of the most interesting quotes is below:

There is no doubt that the prospect of a black U.S. president with direct roots to this continent is forcing Africans to grapple with how they think of America.

"America has changed. I see it accepting things I did not think it would accept when I was there," said Otto Ringia, a consulting company operations manager, who earned a Master's degree at Colorado State University in the mid-1980s.

— Jon Ward, White House correspondent, The Washington Times