Africans Break Records Googling Obama

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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.

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About the author: Jonathan Gosier is a software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he incubates and invests in East African entrepreneurs as the CEO of Appfrica Labs. He's also a TED Fellow.
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