African American, ma ha na kpo ha Black American, bu oke ana mata ndi oji bi n'Njikota Obodo Amerika, m'obu nde nne na nna ha biara na afo gara-aga, amuo ha ebe a, ma o bụ ndi nwẹtẹrẹ akwukwo obịbị na Amerika. Na oge gara-aga, ndi oji bi n'Amerikạ bu ndi ohu ndi ocha gbatara n'Afrika kpobata ha n'Amerikạ. A kwusiri hena mgbe ndi govumenti (Ochichi) Amerikạ deghariri Iwu-ala ha (Constitution) nke ugboro Iri na-ato Thirteenth Ammendment na Constitution. Ndi afrika nke amerikạ mádu jùrù ya nke 42,020,743 (2010; census). Ndi oji Njikota Obodo Amerika The Changing Definition of African-American, Smithonian Magazine, February 2010, looked up on 16 March 2016. February is African American History Month, The Library of Congress, looked up on 16 March 2016. The Black Population: 2010: Ndi afrika nke amerikạ mádu na Njikota Obodo Amerika, by Sonya Rastogi, Tallese D. Johnson, Elizabeth M. Hoeffel, and Malcolm P. Drewery, Jr., United States Census Bureau, looked up on 17 March 2016.