- easier said than done, i am a middle aged man, husband, father, brother , son and friend. i did some volunteer teaching in namibia during the early nineties. i met and married my wife there, where also our two eldest children were born. i moved back to the states at the end of the era, and have been back "home' for about a decade. here in lies my problem, why are all my thoughts and most of my dreams based in africa? here i am in the midst of obamania, another one of those things from my childhood that i always dreamed of.... first it was an black quarterback, yes... and then .. a black astronaut, (we got a brother and sister for that one1). and now we are on the verge of a ... d…