I was in physical therapy a few years back where quite a few professioal athletes also went for treatment. I was doing my exercises while listening to a news story and they used the term African-American. The gentleman next to me happened to be a member of the Nigerian National Soccer Team. He took offense, and quite vocally I might add, that any American born Black man called himself an African-American. He had the same question concerning the actual liniage of the so called "African Americans". Were they sure that they were decendants of Africans? He also found it slighty amusing that they use the term "African-American" as it implies that the entire contenent was there home. He said that he was Nigerian, not an African, or an African-Nigerian.