'From slavery to the White House,' that is how one commentator at the US television channel, Cable News Network (CNN), described this phenomenal triumph of President Elect Barak Obama.

There is some element of mystery in this achievement of a life time; an achievement that is certainly not for Obama but for the American people.
 
One thing that is so special about last Wednesday's development is that it unravels a force that the world could never have imagined, as it appeared that the whole world was in support of the historic victory; from Africa to Asia; Europe to Russia.

It feels touching to see pictures of people the world over - Black and White, Japanese, Chinese, French, hogging each other, disregarding the feeling of racial segregation, in response to the victorious election of a Blackman as president of a nation with such a history.

In a way, President Elect Obama unified the world, even if it is for just a few months, in the course of the electioneering period. The whole world apparently endorsed the fact that history had to be made. Even George W Bush himself attested to that. And it happened that this was done in a spectacular fashion. This is a manifest realization of the Rev. Dr Matin Luther Kings' "I have a dream" speech.

But to think that the Luther King Dream would be realized by an African whose father came from Africa would have been prophecy impossible to believe. This is an immensely extraordinary achievement.

And for the rest of the world, it is a confirmation that nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible in this world of ours.