Reading some of Tuesdays election results, the following paragraph from a Washington Compost article by John Wagner and Jenna Johnson made me wonder if i missed something in geography class.

"Brown, the son of a Jamaican father and a Swiss mother, was attempting to become the first African American governor of Maryland and only the third elected anywhere in the nation. He would also have been Maryland’s first lieutenant governor to ascend to the state’s top job."

So, did I miss something?  Is Jamaica a territory of an African country?  Or is this more liberal logic because he is dark skinned?