May 10 Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

But, rather like the election of the first black president of the United States, it was fizzing with popular expectations, promising a fundamental shift from the past.

What they cannot accept is a black president and government spending on others.

And yet, there is something odd about the European mania for a black American politician, even as we all know that a black president or prime minister (let alone one whose middle name is Hussein) is still unthinkable in Europe.

Within my adult lifetime, we have moved from the murder of civil rights campaigners in the US to the election of a black president.

Andrew Watson (24 May 1856 8 March 1921) is widely considered to be the world's first black person to play association football at international level.

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And yet, there is something odd about the European mania for a black American politician, even as we all know that a black president or prime minister (let alone one whose middle name is Hussein) is still unthinkable in Europe. Or perhaps that is precisely the point.

(Signed) Philippe Séguin First President of the Court of Accounts of France

And likewise they asked, not in 2000, but in the same survey in 1996, Would you not vote for a qualified black president?

First, the election of a black president will put to rest the tragic legacy of slavery and the American Civil War.

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Tunisians remembered the 10th anniversary of the death of their country's first president Habib Bourguiba.

History There is debate about who should be considered the first President of Mongolia.

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Often, the text on the documents appears to the naked eye as black ink on black paper.

Two days later, Jean Kambanda became the first head of government to be convicted of genocide.

Jean Michel Basquiat, important to me because he was the first black artist in real time that showed me the possibility of who and what I was about to enter into.

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There were lions and tigers.

That boy has black hair.

That boy's hair is black.

Our flag is red and black.

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Sergei Kravinoff, a.k.a.

Tudor has no chance of becoming the first Christian President of Romania.

He also became the second President of the Students Federation of India between 1974 to 1979.

President Bush was the first head of State to speak out publicly on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

Within my adult lifetime, we have moved from the murder of civil rights campaigners in the US to the election of a black president. Nothing to be grumpy about there.

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He was the first Brazilian president to set foot in the Antarctic.

Sami wore black jeans.

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In January 1905, the institution of the City Governor, or Mayor, was officially introduced in Moscow, and Alexander Adrianov became Moscow s first official mayor.

In Peru, for example, Alejandro Toledo is that country s first indigenous president.