The euphoria that followed the election of President Barrack Hussein Obama as the first black American president reverberated in most parts of the world. The joy and anxiety that followed his election as the 44th president of America all over the world especially in Africa, the erstwhile home land of his ancestors knows no bounds. Obama is qualified variously as the first world president, a citizen of the world, the peace president etc. Thus, his election seems to be different from all other elections in America. In response to this world acclaim for his election, the President Obama has made a promise to change the country (America) and change the world. In this promise, he dangles a new approach in American foreign policy towards global peace project. This paper examines what the election of Obama symbolizes for the world in terms of inter group relations and what lessons his declared foreign policy stance holds for resolution of international and national conflicts. More restrictively, the paper reviews Nigeria’s approach in handling some of her fundamental national conflictual issues and proffers that the Obama approach to global peace project could equally be very useful in resolving some persistent conflicts that threaten peace and unity in the country.

The euphoria that followed the election of President Barrack Hussein Obama as the first black American president reverberated in most parts of the world. The joy and anxiety that followed his election as the 44th president of America all over the world especially in Africa, the erstwhile home lan...