I wonder about the circumstances of this adoption. How/why did the newborn daughter of a recent widower who was doing well by the standards of his own society in Africa, end up being adopted in West Virginia, USA? He may have given her up (or sold her) for her own good, but only on condition she go to America.
Her birth father was a visiting college student. Apparently her birth parents decided that they were too young to raise her,and gave her up for adoption. Isn't it wonderful that they chose life for their baby instead of abortion? She seems like a very nice girl raised by a good family.
Far more likely, her father was a college student here in the U.S. and he either abandoned her mother after she was pregnant, or he never knew she was pregnant when he returned to his home country.
I'm sure someone knows for sure though.