Japanese People of Black African Descent - Japanese People of Nigerian Descent, Bobby Ologun, Alessandro DOS Santos, Aja Kong, Thelma Aoyama (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Japanese People of Nigerian Descent, Bobby Ologun, Alessandro Dos Santos, Aja Kong, Thelma Aoyama, Andy Ologun, Tando Velaphi, Kaoru Mfaume. Excerpt: Bobby Ologun (born Alaji Karim Ologun on April 8, 1966) is a Nigerian-born TV personality in Japan, and a K-1, mixed martial artist. In Japan, he is known simply as Bobby ). He speaks English, Yoruba and Japanese. He currently lives in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture. On July 26, 2007, he announced on Mezamashi TV that he had become a naturalized citizen of Japan, taking his wife's surname and registering officially as Bobby Konda ). Ologun is the third brother in a family of thirty-one brothers and sisters. After graduating from a Nigerian university, he came to Japan as an assistant to a trading company which his father manages. In 2001, he worked a part-time job in the kitchen of a cafe in Daikanyama, Shibuya while also first appearing in Sanma Akashiya's television program Sanma's Super Karakuri-TV on Tokyo Broadcasting System as a non-Tarento interviewee. By the end of the year, he was regular on the popular skits featured on Karakuri-TV, The Funniest Language School, as a student. Foreigners who have trouble speaking Japanese are often featured in Japanese variety shows, which may explain the immediate success of Bobby Ologun. His frequent confusion (or feigned confusion) quickly made him an instant star on the Karakuri-TV show. Some of his famous mistakes were: "A winter morning, The pigeon looks very, very delicious." One of the running skits on Sanma's Super Karakuri TV featured Ologun attempting a variety of different jobs and skills in which he had no previous experience (he succeeded Tamao Nakamura in these skit performances). Inspired from watching Bob Sapp vs Taro Akebono on K-1 Dyna... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2303220