The Significance of Obama's Election to Nigeria and its Diaspora
By Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD
alukome@gmail.com
Burtonsville,MD,20866
November 8, 2008
INTRODUCTION
On November 4, 2008, a remarkable event occurred in the United States of America:a Kenyan-African-American named Barack Hussein Obama, aged 47, Federal Senator from the State of Illinois, was elected to be the 44thPresident of the USA in its 56thpresidential election since George Washington was first elected in 1789.He is the first African-American so honored, and the second Illinois legislator ever to be elected president, the first being Abraham Lincoln (1...
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