Apparently, Africans have been information starved for facts about Barrack Obama and they’ve been turning to Google for that info. According to Google Insights, the top ten countries currently searching for the query “Obama” are Haiti, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia, the U.S., Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Senegal as the image below illustrates.

All Africa recently reported similar trending going back several months…

According to Google Insights, the web giant’s search analysis tool, African nations led the world in the concentration of searches for “barack obama” over the past 12 months. Cameroon, Rwanda, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Ghana all placed ahead of the US in a regional ranking of interest in the candidate’s name. Nine of the top 10 nations in the list were African. Africa also dominated the popularity of searches for “us election” over the past 30 days, with Ethiopia, Nigeria and Kenya ranked before Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

About the Author: Jonathan Gosier (Founder) is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world.

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