 Since now he has been re-elected. The 44th President of the United States has a triple ancestral heritage in any case, and we are hoping that now that he has a second term he will pay attention to that heritage. He is descended from Africans, from Muslims, and from mainstream Americans. In the bid to be elected president of the United States the first time, Barack Obama emphasized his affinity with mainstream Americans, but underplayed his credentials as an African, and as someone descended from Muslims. He wanted to be sure there was no ambiguity that if elected he would be president of the United States, not president of black people, not president of Muslim people. And in the first term he might have overdone this self-distancing from ancestry. Now the three kinds of credentials that he will be judged by include the following. One set of credentials would be based on existential qualifications, concerning Obama's own identity and his personal character and attributes. Obama's intelligence, his social and political skills, and his personal style of leadership are part and parcel of this existential area of qualifications. Also existential is his African and Muslim ancestry. He is the first United States president whose father was born a Muslim and whose grandfather was, by all accounts, developed in the faith. Obama is the first president of the United States, none of whose names were either European or Jewish. His first name was based on the Swahili name Baraka Blessing. His second name, Hussein, is clearly Arab or Muslim, and his family name Obama is Luo from Kenya. It is to his credit that he never tried to suppress his middle name Hussein. We were waiting when he took the oath of office. We were having all sorts of debates. This man is going to say Baraka H. I never had to say it, but a pleasant surprise. He had the full name. He is also the first United States president whose childhood education was partly in a Muslim country, indeed within the most populous Muslim society in the world, Indonesia. Barak's childhood was also in Hawaii, arguably the most multicultural part of the United States. Obama probably learned more about Islam from his Indonesian stepfather, the mother's second husband, than from his biological Kenyan father. His school in Indonesia was secular and not a traditional madrasa, but his fellow students were overwhelmingly Muslim as were indeed the majority of his instructors. He was exposed to Islam in the human composition of the school that he attended in Indonesia. Next to these existential criteria for basing our expectations of the second term are credentials of performance. How has he done? Within the first hundred days of the first term, there was no spectacular, so in general he expressed very little interest in the wider issue of the Africa, but he did try to pay some attention to that full Julian Sudan, and then from across he addressed the continent of Africa with regard to what it needs to do and what it needs to address.