Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- I recently stumbled on a Nigerians For Obama Twitter handle, launched on October 10 this year. "We nigerians in American (sic) want to tell obama that we have got his back," the inaugural tweet read. There's nothing surprising about that -- after all, Barack Obama, born of an African man, is "our son." The story of "Obamagic" goes back four years, when it emerged that a black man actually stood a chance of becoming the president of the most powerful country in the world. Here, the boss of the stock exchange launched an "Africans for Obama" group (never mind that she probably meant to say "Billionaire Nigerians for Obama") and organised a fund-raising dinner that amassed $600,000 for the Democratic candidate.
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In 2008, Nigerians were inspired by Barack Obama's run for the U.S. presidency
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Ogunlesi: "Obamagic" has largely worn off, but he remains more popular than Romney
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Ogunlesi: Nigerians are more interested in the campaign drama than the political issues
Much of the energy that in 2008 went into the @placeholder elections has since found an outlet in our own electoral processes.
Perhaps we're seeing in @placeholder a reflection of our own president: swift dissipation of a hope founded largely on a campaign charged with personal stories; a case of soaring soapbox poetry swiftly replaced by the clunky prose of presidential politics.