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OK, but there are Arabs in Africa, so it's not entirely imprecise.His father may be an Arab, but if he was, as you say, born in Kenya (an African) country, then it's still proper to refer to him as an African. And to his mother as an American, since she was born in America.The irony here is that Obama, by virtue of having parentage that is literally half-African and half-American, is more African-American than the people we commonly term African-American.
OK, but there are Arabs in Africa, so it's not entirely imprecise.
His father may be an Arab, but if he was, as you say, born in Kenya (an African) country, then it's still proper to refer to him as an African. And to his mother as an American, since she was born in America.
The irony here is that Obama, by virtue of having parentage that is literally half-African and half-American, is more African-American than the people we commonly term African-American.
