On the evening Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, he didn’t rush off to the loud celebrations.
Instead, he stayed inside a hotel room in Chicago playing Scrabble with his daughters — Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.
A simple moment.
But it revealed a great deal about the man who entered history that night.
While millions of Americans celebrated his victory, Obama wanted his daughters to remember the evening not as a political spectacle, but as time spent with family.
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States, placing his hand on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
For the first time in American history, an African American became president.
But Obama’s story was never only about grand speeches and historic ceremonies.
During the campaign, he still made time to read Harry Potter to his daughters before bed.
As a child growing up between Hawaii and Indonesia, the future president loved comic books and superhero stories.
Even his political career began in an unconventional way: in 1996, he won his first seat in the Illinois Senate after a difficult legal battle over the signatures submitted by his opponents.
Then came the White House.
But even there, Obama refused to abandon simple habits.
He personally read letters from ordinary Americans and often replied to them himself — sometimes late at night. He believed a president should hear people directly, not only through statistics and reports.
Obama is left-handed — like only a handful of U.S. presidents before him.
He wore nearly identical dark suits and the same style of shoes every day so he wouldn’t waste energy on unnecessary decisions.
And he had one tradition he never broke: on Election Day, he always played basketball. The only election he had ever lost happened when he skipped it.
Michelle Obama once shared that even in the White House, her husband made his own bed every morning — a habit taught to him by his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, whom he lovingly called “Toot.”
Even while living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he never forgot who he had been before becoming president.
And perhaps that is why millions of people around the world saw in him not just a politician —
but a human being.
A man who, amid power, fame, and history-changing decisions, tried to preserve the things that mattered most:
family,
simplicity,
humanity,
and a connection to the people for whom all of it was meant to matter.
C'est vraiment déconcertant et regrettable de voir nos autorités manifester une négligence notoire face à notre situation.
Qu'avons nous fait pour mériter un tel sort ?
Nous rappelons que ça fera déjà 16 mois que nous, anciens de la @facmed de l'@ucbukavu n'avons pas de diplôme
RDC: #ULPGL-GOMA
Je tiens à exprimer tout mon soutien total à nos camarades de la faculté de Médecine. Votre revendication légitime concernant l'obtention de vos diplômes après avoir terminé avec succès votre cursus académique.
Ces femmes, ces enfants et ces hommes qui affrontent les intempéries en transportant leurs effets nuits et jours et en parcourant des dizaines des kilomètres ESSAIENT JUSTE DE SAUVER LEURS VIES. Ils n'ont même pas la possibilité d'enterrer dignement ceux d'entre eux qui tombent en chemin ! CES FEMMES, CES ENFANTS ET CES HOMMES HUMILIÉS SUR LES TERRES DE LEURS ANCÊTRES NE SONT PAS MOINS CONGOLAIS QUE LES MEMBRES DU GOUVERNEMENT ET TOUS CEUX DONT LA MISSION PREMIÈRE EST DE LE PROTÉGER! ILS N'ONT BESOIN NI DE LECTURE DU COMPTE-RENDU DU DERNIER CONSEIL DES MINISTRES, NI DES DÉCLARATIONS MÉDIATIQUES ET SURTOUT PAS DE NOUVELLES PROMESSES!
Il leur faut UNE ACTION URGENTE, MAINTENANT!
I'm happy to share with you our recent paper, the first study assessing prognosis factors of non traumatic coma in adult patients in the DR Congo... Congratulations to the whole team🥳🍻https://t.co/QRe8QtrNJE
The PI3K pathway, on which my compatriot, friend and colleague @kabaisaac2 (@kaskongo and @Unikinrdc alumni) from the University of Toledo (USA) has worked, is one of the most talked in cell signaling nowadays. Congratulations to Mr Isaac ELAKA KABA.
@KaniMubagwa@CCikomola
Africa-UniNet, now meeting at @egertonunikenya, promotes/funds Austria-Africa scientific cooperation: 19 countries, 66 institutions, 40 projects, total 1M €. @ucbukavu, founding member (https://t.co/vHcNDZyqA5) and country representative, advises other DRC institutions to join.
Nous avons organisé une rencontre culturelle avec les 3 promotions de nos boursiers sur place en 🇨🇩 tous réunis à #Kinshasa pour 2 jours. Différents intervenants ont pu échanger avec eux, notamment le Représentant Résident de @kaskongo@JakobKerstan 1/3
#scholarship@KAS_africa
@deogratiascuba2 Comment on justifie cette hausse.
Il ne s'agit pas seulement de nous imposer des frais. Nous avons droit aux éclaircissements svp
Merci
Ça fait 7 mois déjà que nous sommes à la maison...pas de rentrée académique pour les médecins stagiaires entrant jusque là... Chére @ucbukavu... Qu'avons-nous fait pour mériter ceci? Comprenez mon émotion !
Merci.
@KMubagwa
@CelineBanza On sent de l'originalité. Je suis vraiment un fan
S'il vous plaît @CelineBanza , où trouver la traduction de vos paroles
Chapeau encore une fois pour cette œuvre