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Liberia: Obama is not the first African-American president

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Liberia, History, Politics

In his post titled, Everything you ever wanted to know about Liberia (And more) [1], David Sasaki points out that the first African-American president of any country was the Liberian president J.J Roberts who was born in Norfolk, Virginia.