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A new fascination with Kenya, Obama's ancestral home
In Kenya?s Kogelo village, home of President-elect Obama?s step- grandmother, a festival painting bears images of President-elect Obama and other leaders, including Presidents ... (more...)
KENYA - Barack Obama's ancestral home | Magical Kenya - The Official ...
Kenyan?s are celebrating together with the rest of the world on the election of Senator Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. (more...)
Kenya, ancestral home of Barack Obama, is in the grip of US election ...
The tiny Kenyan farmstead where Barack Obama's father grew up herding goats has had a makeover fit for a President. (more...)
Hope and prayer in Obama's ancestral Kenya village | Reuters
KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyans in Barack Obama's ancestral homeland prayed for victory Tuesday and relatives prepared to roast a bull in celebration if he becomes the first ... (more...)
Obama's Ancestral Kenya Village Keeps Vote Vigil - WSJ.com
Residents of Sen. Barack Obama's ancestral village held evening vigil for his victory on Tuesday. Once a forgotten plot of land, the village has become a tourist attraction and ... (more...)
Obama's grandmother set to attend inauguration - Xinhua News Agency
KISUMU, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's 87-year-old Kenyan grandmother, Sarah Obama, sounded upbeat on Thursday, saying she was set to attend her grandson's presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington later this month ... (more...)
Kenya anger over massacre burial - BBC Africa
There is confusion in Kenya over how to deal with bodies piled in the town of Eldoret's morgue for more than a year. The deceased had died in a church burnt down during ethnic violence after elections in December 2007. Thirty-seven bodies were to ... (more...)
In Kenya, Obama story begins to be seen as an ocean apart - Philadelphia Daily News
KOBAMA, Kenya - He's from the same family that produced President-elect Barack Obama. He shares many of the same hopes and dreams. He even has the same name. This Barack Obama, 26, a cousin named after the president-elect's Kenyan father, was elated ... (more...)
Hopes inspired by US dream go only so far in Kenya as graduates ... - Gulf News
Kobama: He's from the same family that produced President-elect Barack Obama. He shares many of the same hopes and dreams. He's even got the same name. This Barack Obama, 26, a cousin who was named after the president-elect's Kenyan father, was ... (more...)
A budding revival in the land of Obama's roots - International Herald Tribune
The election of Barack Obama signaled more than a milestone in American politics. It also reverberated across the ocean, where the beleaguered tourism industry of Kenya is hoping that Obamamania will result in a resurgence of visitors to the ... (more...)