Africans glued to TV as Obama approaches finishing line

Africans stayed up at all-night parties or woke before dawn today, gathering around televisions and radios as Barack Obama seized command of the race for the White House in his bid to become the first black US president.

“I’m not tired even, though I have been watching the results through the night,” Josiah Otupa, 30, said early today in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. “Our man is in the lead but we are still praying hard.”