People I admire

As we cheered Barrack Obama, a great leader in his own right, and shouted from roof-tops about his achievements as a first generation migrate, we forgot to look at a great Lady who is a migrant leading the natives. Rama Yade, born in Dakar, Sénégal in 1976 and moved to France when she was only 11yrs old. Her mother was a professor of history and her father, also a professor, was the personal secretary of former President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor. Rama Yade is the current Secretary of State for Human Rights under the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Bernard Kouchner a post she has held since May 2007. She is the first African to hold that position in the French government. The Stern Magazine describes her as "an arrogant bitch"(sorry but the translation of the word Zicke from german gives you that in english...lol) for criticizing Gaddafi's 2007 trip to France. She openly condemns leaders who go against Human Richts. She refused to accompany Sarkozy on a high profile trip to China. She is a muslim by faith though she attended Catholic schools then at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where she graduated in 2000. She first grew up as a child of an affluent diplomat in a pleasant residential district, but later moved in with her mother when her parents separated. Yade is married to Joseph Zimet, an adviser to Secretary of State Jean-Marie Bockeland and son of the famous Yiddish singer Ben Zimet.
She has written a book Noirs de France (Africans in France) published by Editions Calmann-Lévy in 2007.
"There is no denying that Rama Yade is a beautiful symbol and a powerful promise. She carries the hope that France will finally acknowledge cultural harmony as the defining issue of its future, leaving aside the national obsession with generational conflict inherited from May 1968."
Source:Artgoldhammer