Yes we can. Three innocent looking words but which in a little less than three weeks since the American historical election have inspired awe, and admiration. They have been copied and are still being copied.
So how did three innocent words come to gain prominence in a global sense? If you are on of t he few who do not yet know, they are the three words that the democratic party President -elect, Barack Obama, used to rally his supporters during a campaign rally and they are also the words he used on his victory night speech.
Those three words also remind me of the Nike slogan Just do it. These two are the slogans that I find so inspiring and moving. They are short but they are full of meaning and action behind them. This is what I think about them; at least this is how I have filed them in my mind; yes we can, let’s just do it. And the other way round is possible too; let’s just do it, yes we can.
These are just a few of the people and places that have adopted these three words. In Canada Newfoundland province became a ‘have’ province just have the US election and they were inspired to write a son celebrating this status after years of being a ‘have-not’ province inspired by ‘Yes we can’.
Elsewhere it has become the slogans of varied social causes worldwide. It has been translated into local languages. There are t-shirts selling with message in Swahili which reads ‘ndio twaweza’in Kenya where Obama’s victory earned a public holiday.
